The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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

Feature

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

Feature

To Defeat Trump, We Must Make Ourselves Ungovernable

A grassroots organizer on noncompliance with Trump and how to build an eco-socialist alternative from the ground up.

Sarah Lazare, AlterNet

Labor

Only Organized Labor Can Save Illinois from Crisis

Tyler Zimmer

Feature

Rex Tillerson Could Be America’s Most Dangerous Secretary of State

The former Exxon Mobil CEO spent his entire adult life working for a company that has left a trail of carnage in its ruthless pursuit of oil.

Antonia Juhasz

Labor

Anti-union Effort in Kentucky Is Ripped Straight from the Koch Playbook

Mary Bottari

Feature

The GOP Is Trying to Kill You

With Donald Trump at the helm, Republicans are readying to unleash holy hell through public policies.

Kate Aronoff

Rural America

The Food Movement Has People and Can Make the World a Better Place…But It Will Need Land

Rural America In These Times

Labor

Breaking the Chains: Can Labor Unions Organize Retail Workers?

Seth Kershner

Viewpoint

To Protect Abortion Rights, Progressives Need to Think Big

The fight for reproductive justice is about to get harder, and now is no time for complacency.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

Kentucky Right-to-Work Law Now a Question of When, Not If

Bruce Vail

Labor

Labor Opponents Already Have The Next ‘Friedrichs’ SCOTUS Case Ready to Go Under Trump

Moshe Z. Marvit

Viewpoint

Why We Need a New Left Internationalism

Neither neoliberal globalization nor populist isolationism offers a workable path forward.

Leon Fink

Comics

What Legacy Is Obama Trying to Protect?

Matt Bors

Rural America

In Minnesota, St. Paul Public Schools Make Indigenous History Part of the Curriculum

Scott Russell