The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

The Heroin Crisis We’ve Ignored

A compassion deficit afflicts Black and Latino users.

Kari Lydersen

Rural America

American Cows are Eating Skittles and Other Reasons Why the 2018 Farm Bill is Important

John Collins

Viewpoint

Why the U.S. Is a Bigger Threat Than North Korea

Decades of military adventurism have done more to destabilize the world than any of the "rogue states" the U.S. targets.

Vijay Prashad, Alternet

Labor

Interviews for Resistance: How To Stop “Neoliberalism on Steroids”

Sarah Jaffe

Viewpoint

This Could Be Reparations’ Best Chance Since 1865

Black activist groups across the political spectrum are uniting behind reparations.

Salim Muwakkil

Viewpoint

Why the Corporate Media Loves a Bombing

From Syria to North Korea, the press is growing hungry for war.

Bill Berkowitz

Feature

Mélenchon’s Campaign To Transform French Politics From the Left

The Bernie Sanders of France offers a progressive populist program to remake the Republic.

Cole Stangler

Labor

The Looming Writers Strike Is About Much More Than What’s On TV

David Dayen

Viewpoint

Should Democratic Socialists Be Democrats?

Democratic Socialists of America members debate how—and to what extent—socialists should engage with electoral politics.

Chris Maisano and Jessie Mannisto

Labor

The Upcoming May Day Strike Could Be the Biggest In Over a Decade. Organizers Explain Why.

Sarah Aziza

Rural America

Peas in a Pod: The “Inner City” and 21st Century Rural America

Steven Conn

Viewpoint

Single Payer in the Golden State

The fight for Medicare for all goes to California.

Joel Bleifuss

Labor

How Barnard Contingent Faculty Won Their First Contract

Gerard Di Trolio

Culture

Hulu’s Brilliant Adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Says More About Our Present Than Our Future

For many marginalized women, dystopia is already here.

Jessica Stites

Viewpoint

Chokwe Antar Lumumba Mounts a Political Revolution in Jackson, Mississippi

The upcoming mayoral race pits a radical future against the neoliberal status quo.

Matthew Cunningham-Cook

Feature

Resister’s Digest: Bernie Sanders Launches “Fight Back” Tour Against Trumpism

The senator hopes to build a Democratic party that is strong in all 50 states.

Theo Anderson

Rural America

A New Book Reminds the Next Generation of Farmers that “Farming Has Always Been A Political Act”

Rural America In These Times

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A Bank Even a Socialist Could Love

The fight for public banking is gaining ground in cities and states across the country.

David Dayen