The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

Toss Out Your Milquetoast Campaign Slogans: It’s Time to Build Power

To win elections, People's Action is mobilizing from the grassroots.

Theo Anderson

Rural America

The USDA is Helping Industrial Hydroponics Water Down the Definition of Organic Farming

Linley Dixon

Feature

California Gov. Jerry Brown Is Backing a Climate Bill Full of Giveaways to Polluters

Regulators say the measure would make it impossible to meet the state's greenhouse gas reduction targets by 2030.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

Why Net Neutrality Is a Working-Class Issue

Bryan Mercer

Labor

As Media Focuses on Russia Collusion, Trump Is Quietly Stacking the Labor Board with Union Busters

Michael Arria

Culture

Before Punk, Skiffle Music Gave Voice to a Working Class That Wanted to Dance

Billy Bragg's new book explores the blue-collar precursor to the British Invasion sound.

Micco Caporale

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