The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Feature
Millennials Are Killing the Oil Industry
Hell yeah we are.
Kate Aronoff
Labor
Black Women Have to Work 7 Months Longer Than White Men to Receive the Same Pay
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is a day to demand an end to the racial and gender pay gap that has led to Black women workers being paid just 67 cents on the dollar relative to white men.
Economic Policy Institute
Dispatch
The Link Between Trump’s Attacks on Immigrants and Deaths in the Desert
Trump's policies reduce people first to “illegals,” then to deportation statistics, and, finally, to a scattering of bones in an arroyo.
John Washington
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
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