The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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If Berniecrats Were British: How Jeremy Corbyn’s Momentum Won the Soul of the Labour Party

Momentum continues to play a central role in organizing the Left in the U.K.’s Labour party.

Sarah Jaffe

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Rahm Emanuel’s Tribute to the World’s Richest Man Is Bad News for Chicago

The city's $2.25 billion offer to Amazon shows that the mayor puts the needs of tech profiteers over city residents.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Rural America

The United States of Toxins in Graphic Relief

Rural America In These Times

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This Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Wants To Disarm and Demilitarize Police—And He’s Winning

Raymond Dehn's progressive policies on criminal justice, housing and more are resonating across the city.

Valerie Vande Panne

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In 1979, This Economist Predicted Puerto Rico’s Modern-Day Financial Crisis

The dominoes that led to the collapse were set up decades ago.

Alex V. Hernandez

Viewpoint

Trump Must Go

We can’t have an out-of-control president with a finger on the button.

Joel Bleifuss

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The Revolution Will Not Be Business Casual—and Other Takeaways From the Women’s Convention

The convention in Detroit was great on diversity and energy, but light on systemic analysis.

Jordan Sarti and Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Labor

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Hate Is Galvanizing Hotel Workers to Fight Back

Bruce Vail

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How Monsanto Captured the EPA—And Twisted Science—To Keep Glyphosate on the Market

Since 1973, Monsanto has cited dubious science, like tests on the uteri of male mice, and the EPA has let much of it slide.

Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman

Culture

Want a Radical Alternative to Trump’s Immigration Agenda? Try Open Borders.

It's not just a pipe dream.

Dayton Martindale

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Pruitt Is Removing Science Advisers Who Have Received EPA Funding, But He’s OK With Industry Funding

The EPA administrator called for scientific independence while drowning in fossil fuel money.

Kate Aronoff

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The Mueller Indictments Aren’t Stopping the GOP From Pursuing Its Craven Agenda

Trump is in hot water, but Republicans are still pushing forward his plans to cut taxes on the rich and defang the EPA.

Theo Anderson

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The Breitbart-Fueled War on Leftist Academics

Some universities are failing to defend scholars when they are targeted by right-wing smear campaigns

Devyn Springer

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Why the Minneapolis Political Establishment Is Scared of Ginger Jentzen

The socialist city council candidate is running on a platform of rent control and reducing inequality—and she’s massively outraising her opponents.

David Duhalde

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The Twisted Logic Behind the GOP’s Latest Assault on Abortion Rights

You can't exercise your reproductive rights if you don’t know you are pregnant.

Michelle Chen

Rural America

Earth to Trump & Co.: Two Basic Reasons Why Coal Isn’t Making a Comeback

Steven Conn

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Repulsed by Whitefish Energy? Maybe You Also Hate Capitalism.

Following public outrage, the company's power contract in Puerto Rico was canceled. But the company still reveals a great deal about the banal evils of capitalism.

Kate Aronoff

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Why the Weinstein Story Has Been So Huge

Until we confront rape culture as a whole, the #MeToo testimonies will continue.

Susan J. Douglas