The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Interviews for Resistance: Why Teachers Unions Are the Best Bet To Transform the Labor Movement

Sarah Jaffe

Labor

Taxi Workers Strike Over Muslim Ban—And Uber Takes Advantage

Chris Brooks

Rural America

Bird Flu Factories: How Industry Backed Science Favors Big Poultry and Ignores Danger

Rob Wallace

Culture

Asghar Farhadi Is One of the Most Important Directors Working Today—And Trump Has Banned Him

The Iranian filmmaker's masterful, Oscar-nominated The Salesman shows the futility of progressives trying to tolerantly endure repressive regimes.

Michael Atkinson

Feature

Robert Reich: Why Putting Steve Bannon on the National Security Council Is So Terrifying

The dangers of "America First."

Robert Reich

Viewpoint

Voting Doesn’t Have To Be Winner-Take-All

To get people engaged in politics, we need an electoral system based on proportional representation.

Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Interviews for the Resistance: Live From the Spontaneous Protests at JFK Airport

Hundreds gather to protest Donald Trump's refugee and Muslim bans, and to demand the release of those held at the airport.

Sarah Jaffe

Rural America

Farm Policy Watchdog Stands by Organic Farmers. Will Secretary of Agriculture Perdue?

John Collins

Labor

New Congress on Track to Block Long-Sought Workplace and Public Health Protections

Elizabeth Grossman

Feature

Chiquita Made a Killing From Colombia’s Civil War. Will Their Victims Finally See Justice?

A long-running case against the banana giant is moving forward in U.S. court.

Matt Kennard and Nick MacWilliam

Culture

Neoliberalism, Cranked up to 11

Jonathan Coe's Number 11 offers a bleak portrait of what Britain has become.

Chris Lehmann

Feature

Why Is the GOP Obsessed with Two 1950s Russian Expat Thinkers?

Mike Pence and Paul Ryan look to the past for inspiration.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Bernie Sanders: Corporate Media Threatens Our Democracy

This is a crisis we can no longer afford to ignore.

Bernie Sanders

Feature

Interviews for Resistance: Biola Jeje of BYP100 on Why Direct Action Is So Powerful Right Now

It's not enough to protest. We must "put our bodies on the line."

Sarah Jaffe

Viewpoint

Elon Musk Endorses Rex Tillerson, Confirming That Elon Musk Is Terrible

He also reminds us why a revenue-neutral carbon tax is terrible.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

Surprise: David Brooks Is Dead Wrong on the Women’s March

The New York Times columnist used the biggest protests in U.S. history as an excuse for another boilerplate centrist rant.

Adam Johnson

Feature

Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent Begins: More Than 200 Inauguration Protesters Hit With Felony Charges

Protesters face up to 10 years in prison.

Sarah Lazare, AlterNet

Feature

#ResistTrumpTuesdays Launches Nationwide

The coalition is seeking to pressure Democrats to oppose Trump’s Cabinet nominees, as well as push for progressive change.

John Knefel