The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

Child Soldier in the War on Terror: The Limits of Justice for One Guantanamo Bay Survivor

The abuse of Omar Khadr shows that Islamophobia drives the War on Terror.

Maha Hilal

Dispatch

Disabled and Disobedient: How ADAPT Activists Blocked the GOP Healthcare Bill

This wasn't their first day at the rodeo.

s.e. smith

Labor

One Taxi Driver’s Story of Trying to Survive in the Age of Uber

Stephen Franklin

Labor

We Shouldn’t Trust Tech Industry Billionaires to Lead the Way on Immigrants’ Rights

Julianne Tveten

Feature

The Trump Administration Is Waging a War on Civilians In Syria

The United States is now one of the deadliest warring parties in Syria

Laura Gottesdiener

Feature

The Democrats’ New Agenda Is Everything That’s Wrong With the Party

More bland messaging and populist posturing won’t save the Democrats. The party needs to take a bold stand against corporate power.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Rural America

To Save Rural Iowa, We Must End Monsanto’s Seed Monopoly

Austin Frerick

Feature

John McCain’s Constituents Are Revolting Against His Attempt to Take Away Their Healthcare

Meet Lauren Klinkhammer, a Tucson resident who was politicized by the federal assault on healthcare rights.

Sarah Jaffe

Rural America

In the Fine Print: What Insurance Companies Know About Fracking and Climate Change

Steven Conn

Feature

Jonathan Chait Is Wrong: Neoliberalism Is Real and Fundamentally Opposed to Left Principles

Neoliberalism stands in direct conflict with socialism. We must name it so we can overcome it.

Meagan Day

Feature

The Great Midwestern Divide: Why Minnesota and Wisconsin’s Political Schism Matters

The governorships of conservative Scott Walker (R-Wis.) and progressive Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) have yielded dramatically different results.

Theo Anderson

Feature

What Does the Resistance Really Stand for If It Criminalizes Free Speech?

Pressure is building for 'progressives' to pull their support from proposed legislation that would criminalize support for Palestinian rights.

David Palumbo-Liu

Feature

Bernie Sanders On the Right-Wing Ideology That Rules Our Economy

Milton Friedman is still the false prophet of Wall Street.

Bernie Sanders

Feature

The Hidden Costs of “National Security”: 10 Ways Your Tax Dollars Are Paying for War

In government terms, make no mistake about it, the Pentagon & Co. are the 1%.

William D. Hartung

Feature

Locked Up for Being Poor? Chicago Just Took a Big Step Forward in Bail Reform

Activists are lauding a new court order while continuing to push for the end of money bond.

Abby Lynn Klinkenberg

Feature

This Left Challenger Is Showing How to Use Progressive Economics to Flip Trump Country

Congressional hopeful Jess King is bringing an anti-poverty agenda to the working-class community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Kate Aronoff

Culture

At the Bullfrog, Those Left Behind by the Global Economy Find Relief—and a Place to Talk Trump

In a Jamestown, N.Y., hotel and bar, down-and-out former factory workers seek solidarity and camaraderie—often expressed in shared rants about immigrants or liberals.

Kari Lydersen

Labor

NPR Workers Just Showed Us Why Journalists Need to Organize

Michael Arria