The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Rural America

New CDC Study Finds Big Difference Between Rural and Urban Mortality Rates

Rural America In These Times

Feature

Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention

In statehouses across the country, ALEC-backed legislators are pushing for a balanced-budget amendment, a repeal of the federal income tax and more.

Simon Davis-Cohen

Feature

Why President Obama Must Grant Clemency to Chelsea Manning

The administration is considering whether to free the imprisoned whistleblower. She needs our support now more than ever.

Chase Madar

Labor

Deficits Matter—But Not in the Way Paul Krugman Thinks They Do

Kate Aronoff

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Interviews for Resistance: Mariame Kaba on Why the Time To Push for Single-Payer Is Now

The longtime organizer on how we can unite across difference to agitate for real progress under Trump—and push the Democrats left in the process.

Sarah Jaffe

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Either Rex Tillerson Lied Under Oath, Or He Doesn’t Understand How Fossil Fuel Subsidies Work

At Wednesday's confirmation hearing, Trump's secretary of state pick denied that Exxon Mobil receives subsidies. It does.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

Workers Say Trump’s Labor Secretary Nominee Is a Habitual Violator of Labor Law

Liza Featherstone

Feature

How Hopelessness Helped Elect Donald Trump

The president-elect performed well in places with the highest rates of death from suicide and drug abuse.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Attacked by Trump and Ignored by Democrats: Chuck Jones on Labor’s Fight

The local labor leader discusses Carrier, outsourcing and being targeted by the president-elect on Twitter.

Micah Uetricht

Labor

From Company Town to Rebel City: Richmond, California Shows How Progressives Can Win

Shaun Richman

Labor

Labor Has a Narrow Window To Build Power Before Trump’s Agenda Takes Hold

Dave Kamper

Rural America

Rural America Still Waiting to See Who Trump Taps for Secretary of Agriculture

Dan Flynn

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Democrats: It’s Time for a Contract with American Workers

Republicans are in power because they had a plan. The Left needs one, too.

Theo Anderson

Culture

What We Can Learn From the Pacifist Movement Against World War I

Although they failed to keep us out of the war, they organized effectively in conditions frighteningly similar to our own.

Theo Anderson

Rural America

FDA Grants Additional Time for Citizens (and Food Companies) to Define ‘Healthy’

Coral Beach

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How Corporations Rig the Rules and Crush Dissent

A new book by Gordon Lafer shines a spotlight on the super-rich.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Slavoj Zizek: Lessons From the “Airpocalypse”

On China's smog problem and the ecological crisis.

Slavoj Žižek

Viewpoint

Diane Ravitch: Trump’s Nominee for Secretary of Education Could Gut Public Ed

Billionaire Betsy DeVos will be great for private, religious and charter schools—and bad news for students and teachers.

Diane Ravitch