The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Rural America

Rural Americans and the Language Too Many People Use to Talk About Them

Nora Mabie

Feature

The Absolute Buoyancy: Why Corbyn and Labour Are Up and the Conservatives Are Down

The message from recent party conferences was clear: Labour is ascendant, while UK voters are tiring of Theresa May and the Tories.

Richard Seymour

Feature

Rahm Emanuel Wants $95 Million for a New Police Facility. Chicago Activists Have Other Ideas.

Organizers with the #NoCopAcademy campaign are taking to the phones, streets and trains to get out their message that Chicago communities need more resources, not more cops.

Charles Preston

Feature

How the “Fake News” Scare Is Marginalizing the Left

Unaccountable tech companies are defining the parameters of acceptable discourse.

Julianne Tveten

Dispatch

Hurricane Relief, in the Spirit of Ella Baker

These volunteers are rebuilding northeast Houston, with a dose of transformative justice.

Eesha Pandit

Feature

Elon Musk Is Not the Hero Puerto Rico Needs

The island needs a revamped electric grid and fast, but privatization is not the answer.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

How Private Equity Killed Toys “R” Us

Private equity firms bled the company dry to turn a profit, and now mass layoffs are imminent.

Mark Dunbar

Feature

To End Mass Incarceration, We Must Rethink How We Respond to Violence

Using restorative justice techniques as an alternative to prison has a surprising group of supporters: victims of violence

Sophie Bandarkar

Culture

Yanis Varoufakis: Confessions of a Troika Dropout

Greece’s former finance minister and “inconsistent Marxist” discusses his new tell-all from his time in Europe’s halls of austerity.

Sarah Leonard

Rural America

Is the Biotech Industry Transforming a Natural Pesticide into a Super Toxin?

Jonathan R. Latham

Feature

A Cyclical Crisis: Why Trump’s Crackdown on Central American Migrants Will Only Mean More Violence

Trump’s promises to “decimate” Central American gangs and close the border to child migrants fuel a cycle of transnational brutality.

Laura Weiss

Viewpoint

Puerto Rico Is a Symptom of America’s Rotting Democracy

We need to rebuild the island and our government.

Jessica Stites

Labor

What the Revival of Socialism in America Means for the Labor Movement

Shaun Richman and Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Culture

The Art of Disobedience

From the Black Panthers to Ferguson, finding a U.S. history we can be proud of.

Abby Lynn Klinkenberg

Feature

Racist Blowback Against Colin Kaepernick Isn’t Just About Him: It’s Aimed at Black Resistance Itself

We refuse to apologize for fighting for our freedom.

Keedra Gibba

Feature

The U.S. Is Bombing at Least Six Countries. How Can the Anti-War Movement Step Up?

A discussion on the future of peace organizing.

Phyllis Bennis, Vijay Prashad and Ali Issa

Feature

Muslim Ban 3.0 Is Here. And So Is the Anti-Racist Resistance.

Communities under siege are planning a mass mobilization on October 18.

Michelle Chen

Rural America

Warnings from First Americans: Insidious Changes Are Underway that Will Affect Us All

Stephanie Woodard