The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

The Wrong Way to Debunk Trump’s Pipeline Jobs Claims

Kate Aronoff

Feature

Bill Moyers: Trump Fought the Freedom Caucus over Healthcare and Lost

The most extreme conservatives are capable of holding the House hostage.

Bill Moyers

Labor

Baltimore’s Democratic Mayor Breaks Promise, Vetoes $15 Minimum Wage Bill

Bruce Vail

Feature

Interviews for Resistance: A Democratic Socialist on Running to Transform the Democratic Party

A candidate for city council in South Fulton, Georgia, talks about running for local office as a way to infiltrate and transform the Democratic Party.

Sarah Jaffe

Culture

Toward a Real-Life Zootopia

How a fuller conception of freedom can help humans and others coexist.

Dayton Martindale

Rural America

Coal Country vs. the Arts Community, Says Who?

Leon Fink

Feature

Resister’s Digest: Bringing Single-Payer Healthcare to Life

Single-payer healthcare is back in play after Trumpcare went down in flames.

Theo Anderson

Viewpoint

The Push for Single-Payer Healthcare Is On. Democrats Should Get on Board or Get Out of the Way.

Following the stunning collapse of Trumpcare, Bernie Sanders is leading the fight by progressives to win single-payer.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty

Unemployment, depopulation and the legacy of slavery in Jefferson County, Miss.

Lauren Kaori Gurley

Labor

Why White Working Class Americans Are Dying “Deaths of Despair”

Stephen Franklin

Rural America

To Upend Corporate Agriculture, Americans Need to Understand Basic Farm Policy

Mark Willsey

Labor

Momentum Builds for Massive West Coast May Day Strike

Jonathan Rosenblum

Culture

View of the Swamp from Across the Pond

As the U.K. barrels toward Brexit, Trump provides Britain with another bizarre spectacle.

Jane Miller

Feature

The Insurance Industry Would Make a Killing From Trumpcare

Trump and Ryan's AHCA is disliked by almost everyone besides private health insurers. There's a reason for that.

Wendell Potter

Feature

How the New York Times’ Budget Coverage Keeps the Public in the Dark

Numbers without any context only serve to mislead the reader.

Dean Baker

Labor

The Dangers of Salting Under Trump

Nick Johnson

Culture

The Best Police Money Can Buy

In the Fox series APB, police misconduct doesn't exist, and privatization and technology can fix any problem.

Kristian Williams

Rural America

Sonny Perdue Heads to Senate Ag Committee for Confirmation Hearing

Rural America In These Times