The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Feature
DOJ: To Address “Defective” Accountability System, Chicago Must Renegotiate Police Union Contracts
The DOJ's damning report found a pattern of racism and unreasonable force, and that contract provisions hinder investigations.
Adeshina Emmanuel
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
Feature
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
Feature
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
Feature
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
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
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