The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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An Inside Account of How Direct Action Helped Kill the GOP Healthcare Bill

Mari Cordes is a nurse, organizer and House candidate who was arrested multiple times in Washington, D.C. protesting the GOP's Obamacare repeal bill.

Sarah Jaffe

Rural America

Nutrient Runoff is Killing American Waters and Voluntary Actions Aren’t Working

Donald Scavia

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In Guam, the Gravest Threat Isn’t North Korea—It’s the United States

The United States is using this Pacific colony as its own private firing range.

Leilani Ganser

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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

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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

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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

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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