The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

A Progressive Drinking Game To Get You Through Tonight’s Presidential Debate

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will face off in front of an estimated 100 million viewers.

Kate Aronoff

Rural America

Rural Stories Making Headlines (September 26, 2016)

Rural America In These Times

Viewpoint

The Left Deserves Better Than Jill Stein

Stein’s Green Party run doesn’t offer a plan to win, or to build power. The Left is capable of so much more.

Kate Aronoff

Viewpoint

Voting For Hillary is a Privilege—One Not Shared By the People She’ll Bomb

Yes, vote for her. But then prepare to fight her hawkish policies every step of the way.

Marc Daalder

Viewpoint

3 Reasons to Vote for Hillary Clinton That Have Nothing To Do with Hillary Clinton

We can't ignore the ways that having a Democrat in the White House matters.

Thomas Geoghegan

Viewpoint

How a Trump Presidency Would Unleash Racist Violence—And Devastate the Left

The Left should take the Trump threat very seriously.

Arun Gupta

Viewpoint

More Than a Protest: Why Voting Green Counts

Jill Stein's campaign manager makes the case for a Green political revolution.

David Cobb

Culture

A Brief History of the Right’s Racist Hate: From 1885 to Trump

The road to Trumpism is paved with scapegoats.

Theo Anderson

Rural America

“They Clearly Thought They’d Bought a Slam-Dunk Pipeline”—An Interview with Winona LaDuke

John Collins

Labor

VW’s Company Union Can’t Attract Even 15 Percent of Workers

Chris Brooks

Labor

Walmart, Nike and Others Decline to Back $40 Monthly Wage Hike in Cambodia’s Garment Industry

Cole Stangler

Feature

You Must Be Kidding: The Exasperating, Never-Ending Sprawl of American Empire

6 absurd trends that show despite a Nobel Peace prize-winning president, our country's militaristic overreach grinds on.

Tom Engelhardt

Viewpoint

Should Silicon Valley Really Be Allowed To Decide What Is and Isn’t Hate Speech?

The internet is a bastion of free speech—but that's not always a good thing.

Susan J. Douglas

Feature

Inside DuPont and Monsanto’s Migrant Labor Camps

Our investigation reveals that multibillion-dollar Big Ag corporations routinely use labor recruiters who crowd migrant workers in housing riddled with health and safety violations.

Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

Feature

Renters Rise Up for National Day of Action

Events are taking place across the country to raise awareness about America’s affordable housing crisis.

David Dayen

Dispatch

Meet the Baltimore Activists Trying to Stop the Next Oil Train Explosion

Baltimore residents campaign against the rail transport of highly flammable crude oil through residential neighborhoods.

Bruce Vail

Feature

Wells Fargo Shows Exactly How Structural Racism Works

The company’s history offers a glimpse into the gears of structural racism and the broader culture of corruption within the banking industry.

Theo Anderson

Comics

2016: The Year of Partisan Pundit Hacks

Matt Bors