The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Opponents of School Privatization Are Very Worried About a New Law in Illinois. Here’s Why.

Kari Lydersen

Feature

“These Disasters Aren’t Natural Anymore”: A Dispatch from Puerto Rico After Maria

A conversation with Xiomara Caro Diaz of the Center for Popular Democracy about the devastation wrought by climate change and austerity.

Kate Aronoff

Rural America

The National Organic Program Is Getting a New Boss, Here’s Why That’s Long Overdue

The Cornucopia Institute

Feature

Lyin’ Ted Is Still Standing—But This Democrat Has a Bold Plan To Topple Him

Rep. Beto O’Rourke is aiming to topple Ted Cruz and pursue a progressive agenda in Texas.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Want Proof that Corporate Money Influences Politicians? This New Study Has It.

It really is no coincidence that the members of Congress who receive the most money from Wall Street are also the most hands-off on regulating it.

Charles Austin

Labor

“Right to Work” Doesn’t Have to Mean Defeat for Labor. These Nurses Prove Workers Can Still Win.

James Walker

Labor

Oklahoma Is Imprisoning So Many People It Can’t Hire Enough Guards To Keep Up

Michael Arria

Feature

When “Progressives” Make Palestinian Rights Taboo, They Are Coddling the Far Right

Carlos Ramirez-Rosa lost his spot on the gubernatorial ticket of Daniel Biss for refusing to condemn global movements for Palestinian human rights.

Rahul Saksena

Labor

This Lawyer Helped Reagan Bust the Air Traffic Controllers Union. Now Trump Wants Him on the NLRB.

Michael Arria

Feature

Socialism and Faygo: Why the DSA Is Down for the Struggalo

A conversation with Allison Hrabar of Metro D.C. DSA.

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

The New GOP Plan to Repeal Obamacare Is Pure Destruction, or Trumpism In a Nutshell

Graham-Cassidy would repeal the ACA and gut Medicaid with no viable replacement—leaving millions of Americans without healthcare.

Josh Bivens and Hunter Blair

Labor

After Member Is Deported, New York Teamsters Declare Themselves Sanctuary Union

Sarah Jaffe

Dispatch

In 2028 Olympics, L.A. Residents See a Police State on Steroids

Community groups are torching the city’s Olympic plans.

Leighton Woodhouse

Rural America

How Corporate Science and Alternative Facts Limit Our Reality

John Ikerd

Feature

We Can’t Fight Trump-Style Hate with the Surveillance State

"Life After Hate" has attracted widespread support as an anti-racist organization. Yet, the group has a troubling history of collaborating with Islamophobic "war on terror" federal programming.

Debbie Southorn

Feature

The U.S.-Trained Warlords Committing Atrocities in Afghanistan

A village alleges dozens of civilian deaths at the hands of a single U.S.-trained strongman—just one example of the “Afghan special forces” to whom the U.S. has delegated its war.

May Jeong

Viewpoint

Heed the Lesson of 1932: Only Left Unity Can Defeat the Racist Right

We have our differences, but we also have the numbers.

Joel Bleifuss

Feature

After Irma, Can Private Utilities Be Trusted to Rebuild?

There’s an opportunity post-Irma to revolutionize Florida’s power supply, but Big Energy is not likely to rise to the occasion.

Kate Aronoff