The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Rural America

Despite Record Yields, Farm Sector Profits are Forecast to Decline for the Third Straight Year

John Collins

Feature

Liberal Pundits Once Championed Government Transparency—Then Hillary Clinton Ran For President

Matt Yglesias and Kevin Drum have suddenly come out against open government, betraying a long journalistic legacy.

Branko Marcetic

Feature

BREAKING: Obama Administration Steps In to Halt Dakota Access Pipeline—For Now

After months of protest by Native tribes, the federal government has issued an order to stop the pipeline, reversing a judge's ruling made earlier in the day.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

150 Million Workers in India Just Staged the Largest Strike in History To Resist Neoliberalism

Theo Anderson

Labor

It’s Game On for Grad Students After NLRB Rules They Can Unionize

Rebecca Nathanson

Labor

45 Years After Attica, Prisoners Are Organizing What Could Be the Biggest Prison Strike Ever

Anna Simonton

Feature

Using Elections to Rage Against—And Reform—the Democratic Machine

The authors of a new book talk about how progressives can win elections in the 21st century.

Theo Anderson

Feature

The Man Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline Has a Long History of Profiting Off Disasters

Kelcy Warren is CEO of Energy Transfer Partners.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

In the War Against Climate Change, Physics Isn’t the Enemy—It’s Corporations and the Far Right

Bill McKibben wants a World War II-style mobilization against climate change. But if it's a war, it's a class war.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

In Milwaukee, a History of Racist Violence Fuels Mistrust of the Police Department

A recent shooting recalls the decades of abuse inflicted on the city's African-American community by police.

Flint Taylor

Labor

Want to Solve the Steel Crisis? Change the Rules

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Culture

The Stories We Live By: Why the White Working Class Votes Conservative

In Strangers in Their Own Land, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild travels south to study what gives conservative ideology its power.

Theo Anderson

Labor

Lipton Workers Vote to Unionize: “Everyone just got tired of it”

Mario Vasquez

Feature

How the U.S. Government Is Helping Corporations Plunder Native Land

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is charged with protecting Native interests. Instead, it's letting corporations grab their land for pennies.

Stephanie Woodard

Culture

Big Data Isn’t Just Watching You—It’s Making You Poorer

Cathy O’Neil's new book, Weapons of Math Destruction, shows mathematical models aren't free of ideology.

Pankaj Mehta

Labor

Strong Unions Help All Workers—Not Just Union Workers

David Moberg

Dispatch

August Was a Huge Month for Berniecrats

Bernie Sanders' presidential bid is over—but as his campaign army deploys down-ballot, more and more progressive challengers are claiming victory.

Alex Ding

Labor

Why Labor and the Movement for Racial Justice Should Work Together

Maurice Weeks and Marilyn Sneiderman