The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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

Labor

Nationwide Prison Strike Against “Slavery in America” Rolls On—Despite Media Blackout

James Kilgore

Feature

Millennials Arrested at Paul Ryan’s Office, Demanding He Denounce Trump

“Hillary isn’t my candidate, but I will not feed Donald Trump. It’s by desperation that she’s getting my vote,” says one protester.

Kate Aronoff

Rural America

How the Food Movement Transcends Ideology…and Why That Makes It Unstoppable

Jonathan R. Latham

Feature

Why Today’s Neoliberal Global Order Is Incompatible With Democracy

A new book by Jerry Harris explores the transformation of global capitalism and its implications.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Feature

The Biggest Israel Aid Deal in History Will Bolster Occupation and the U.S. Defense Industry

A U.S. $38 billion aid package to Israel continues a special relationship of war profiteering.

Max Ajl

Labor

We Are Workers: The Case Against Grad Student Exceptionalism in the UAW

Jacob Denz

Feature

House Republicans Are Trying to Quash the Investigation of Exxon’s Climate Cover-Up

The climate action groups and state Attorneys General leading the charge against Exxon are now facing subpoenas.

Kate Aronoff

Video

Kate Aronoff Explains What Hillary Clinton Still Has to Do to Win Over Bernie Sanders Supporters

Kate Aronoff

Viewpoint

Tilting at Windmills

Wind and solar energy may be our best bet against fossil fuels. Can that justify their grave cost to wildlife?

Michael Hutchins and Rebecca Leber

Labor

AFL-CIO Backs Dakota Access Pipeline and the “Family Supporting Jobs” It Provides

Kate Aronoff

Feature

Occupy Didn’t Just “Change the Conversation.” It Laid a Foundation for a New Era of Radical Protest

Five years later, it’s worth looking more closely at what Occupy built.

Jesse Myerson

Feature

The Execution That Birthed a Movement

Troy Davis' death on Sept. 21, 2011, transformed Occupy and kindled Black Lives Matter.

Jen Marlowe and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Labor

Anatomy of a Lockout

Edna Bonhomme and Emily Drabinski