The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Labor
Can Medicare for All Be the Next $15 an Hour? It’s Up To the Labor Movement.
Michael Lighty
Labor
Prisoners Across Florida Went on Strike. Instead of Fair Wages, They Got Solitary.
Michael Arria
Labor
The Judges Cops Want: These Candidates Have Been Endorsed By Chicago’s Police Union
Alex V. Hernandez
Feature
The Two-Party System Is Facing Its Biggest Challenge In 70 Years
From Maine to Missouri, states are bucking the establishment to push radical electoral reforms.
Theo Anderson
Feature
Let’s Reclaim St. Patrick’s Day From Kellyanne Conway and Mike Pence
Progressives can celebrate St. Paddy's day by reviving the long, proud Irish tradition of standing with immigrants and refugees.
Molly M. Ginty
Labor
Let’s Challenge Corporate Democrats and Fight for a Universal Jobs Guarantee
Sarah Jaffe
Feature
Opinion: When an Elected Official Goes Full Racist, It’s Time To Go Negative
How a Chicago community is pushing back against the racist comments of a local official.
Bassem Kawar and Muhammad Sankari
Feature
Neoliberals Are Taking All the Wrong Lessons From Conor Lamb’s Victory
Lamb ran as an anti-establishment, labor-backed candidate who defended the welfare state. To keep winning, Democrats will need to embrace a bold, redistributive program.
Kate Aronoff
Labor
The VA Is the Closest Thing We Have to Single Payer. Now Trump Wants to Privatize It.
Bryce Covert
Rural America
Poll: Farmers Overwhelmingly Oppose Bayer-Monsanto Merger, Call For Antitrust Division to Reject Bid
Patrick Davis
Culture
Working Night and Day, for 1,000 Years
A new book tells the hidden history of work—on and off the job.
Joanna Scutts
Feature
Trump Is Handing the State Department Over from Exxon Mobil to the Tea Party
The likely next Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a Koch-funded, far-right ideologue who supports torture, denies climate change, disparages Muslims and sounds thirsty for war.
Stephen Zunes
Labor
An Oakland Coal Terminal Is Officially Stalled—Thanks To a Labor-Environmental Alliance
Sarah Lahm
Labor
The West Virginia Teachers’ Strike Has Activists Asking: Should We Revive the Wildcat?
Shaun Richman
Dispatch
How Obama and Trump Turned Their Backs on Haitians
In a Tijuana church, dozens of migrants remain stranded.
Maya Averbuch
Rural America
A Native Coalition is Fighting for a Better 2018 Farm Bill
Kim Baca
Feature
If We Want to Support Refugees, We Need To End the Wars That Create Them
The sanctuary movement needs an anti-war voice.
Azadeh Shahshahani and Maha Hilal
Dispatch
Environmentalists Are Teaming Up With Immigrant Rights Activists To Stop Trump’s Border Wall
In South Texas, a community rallies to protect both its wildlife and residents.
Yvonne S. Marquez
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