The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Feature
Holding Your Ground Against Austerity: Lessons from the Illinois Budget Deal
Progressive movements didn't back down in the face of a right-wing ideologue.
Amisha Patel
Labor
Jimmy John’s Fired Workers for Making a ‘Disloyal’ Meme. A Court Just Ruled That’s Okay.
Bruce Vail
Viewpoint
We Are In the Midst of a Black Power Renaissance
Under Trump, we are seeing a return to collective Black consciousness.
Salim Muwakkil
Feature
A New Study Shows Hillary Clinton’s Hawkishness May Have Cost Her the Election
The lesson for Democrats is clear: Embrace a strong anti-war program.
Branko Marcetic
Feature
‘Police Chose the Klan Over Our People’: On Resisting Racism in Charlottesville
When the KKK came to this city, communities mobilized for collective self-defense. Police were not on their side.
Sarah Jaffe
Culture
The Abolitionist of Walden Pond
Two hundred years after his birth, Henry David Thoreau is as relevant as ever.
Dayton Martindale
Feature
The Right Calls Climate Change a Leap of Faith. But Denial Is a Leap into the Abyss.
Climate change presents us with an existential challenge: Can humans muster the political will to save ourselves?
Theo Anderson
Feature
Not Your Sacrifice Zone: In Lead-Poisoned East Chicago, Residents Fight for Their Health and Homes
A public housing development was built on the site of a lead smelter. Now, residents are demanding justice.
Kaela Bamberger
Rural America
It’s Time to Talk (Again) about Sewage Sludge on Farmland
Laura Orlando
Labor
Is Guatemala the Next Uber Frontier? Taxi Drivers Say ‘Hell No’
Jeff Abbott
Viewpoint
We Have an Existential Imperative to Resist GOP Death Panels
The casualties of the war on health are real and imminent, not a hyperbolic exaggeration.
Joel Bleifuss
Culture
Sorry, Tories: Jeremy Corbyn’s Success Is a Win for the Anti-Austerity Movement
British progressives have a long fight ahead. But for now, we're breathing a collective sigh of relief.
Jane Miller
Labor
Understanding the Existential Threat Trump Poses to a Beleaguered Labor Movement
Barry Eidlin
Feature
Why Disabled People Are Putting Their Bodies on the Line to Protest Healthcare Cuts
A conversation with Bruce Darling, an organizer with disability justice group ADAPT.
Sarah Jaffe
Feature
Arundhati Roy: We Must Globalize Dissent
Radical alternatives to empire must come from the ground up—and traverse borders.
Arundhati Roy
Feature
Naomi Klein: We Need A Plan, Not A Brand
The author speaks on Corbyn, Trump, climate change, and the “hollow branding” that got us here.
Kate Aronoff
Viewpoint
Centrism Is in a Death Spiral: Our Only Hope Is to Let It Perish
While some cling to the Clinton era of the 1990s, the future belongs to a socialism for the 21st century.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Rural America
Game Over: Neither Party’s Health Care Plan Reflects Economic Reality
John Ikerd
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