The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Five Things the New BLS Union Membership Statistics Don’t Tell You

Union membership is slightly on the rise—but the hope for U.S. labor’s future is far brighter than the numbers alone suggest.

Lane Windham

Palestine

The Latest Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Organizations

The Trump administration’s sanctions against Palestinian human rights organizations and ICC officials are the latest chapter in a long history of attacks against advocates aiming to hold Israel and the U.S. accountable.

Azadeh Shahshahani and Sofía Verónica Montez

Labor

Terrorized By ICE, Unable to Pay Rent, Minnesotans Are Getting Ready for a Rent Strike

A tenant organizing push in the Twin Cities has support from labor unions representing more than 25,000 workers.

Rebecca Burns and Sarah Lazare

ViewpointPolitics

No US War on Iran: An Open Letter to the UN Security Council

The current threat of an attack by the US did not begin with any failure by Iran to negotiate. On the contrary, it began with the United States’ repudiation of negotiations that had already succeeded.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

ComicsComics

I Went to Pedophile Island and All I Got Was This Lousy Shirt!

New comics from Mattie Lubchansky, Bianca Xunise, Jen Sorensen and Brian McFadden.

Mattie Lubchansky, Bianca Xunise, Jen Sorensen and Brian McFadden

Viewpoint

Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Fought for Economic Justice, Dies at 84

“His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you to honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by,” said Jackson’s family.

Jake Johnson

What We Can Learn From North Carolina’s “Moral Mondays”

As Trump intensifies his anti-democratic crackdown, North Carolina’s Moral Mondays movement offers a roadmap for organizers looking to fight back.

Matthew Cunningham-Cook

Viewpoint

In the Fight Against ICE, Kids Are on the Front Lines

From tear gas attacks to violent abductions, we are collectively witnessing the mass-scale abuse of children. Young people are fighting back.

Madeline Lane-McKinley

Labor

Remembering Kent Wong (1956-2025)

Wong was an educator, organizer and visionary who saw immigrants as the heart of the labor movement—long before the idea had reached the mainstream.

Gregory Mantsios

Politics

Trump’s ICE Won’t Stop Abducting Kids

Here are just some of the ways Trump’s ICE has terrorized thousands of children, like five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, since the administration took office.

Lily Seltz

Viewpoint

How Democratic Socialists of America Has Developed Into a "Movement Party"

The rapid growth of DSA in recent decades is part of a global phenomenon of voters and activists from the Left and Right who distrust the political establishment and traditional parties, and have formed what scholar Fabian Holt calls “movement parties.”

David Duhalde

InterviewPolitics

"Carte Blanche for Ruthlessness"

Author Laura Field on how Trump and the furious minds of the New Right are in a mutually reinforcing cycle of radicalization.

Kathryn Joyce

LaborPodcast

“ICE Messed With the Wrong Profession”: The Country’s Largest Nurses’ Union Honors Alex Pretti

In the wake of an ICU nurse’s murder by federal agents, National Nurses United has joined calls to abolish ICE.

Maximillian Alvarez

InterviewHousing

A Q&A With Cea Weaver, New York Tenants’ New Woman on the Inside

A conversation with the Zohran Mamdani-appointee on why she’s “very, very interested” in bringing collectively-bargained leases and renter-owned housing to New York City

Thomas Birmingham

LaborDispatch

Worker Organizer Abducted By Federal Agents in Minnesota

“It was just eerie to have to get in the car, drive it back to my house, knowing that I don't know when I'm going to be seeing my dad again.”

Sarah Lazare

LaborViewpoint

Trump’s Assault on Immigrants Hurts U.S.-Born Workers, Too

The research is clear: when immigrant workers are targeted, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for better pay and conditions.

Sarah Lazare

Investigation

ICE-Cold Cash: Private Prison Companies and Executives Have Donated Millions to Members of Congress

Find out if your representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg and Ethan Corey

Dispatch

The Fake Clinics Taking Over Reproductive Healthcare

As abortion clinics disappear nationwide, “crisis pregnancy centers” are transforming reproductive healthcare into a far-right fantasy—quietly collecting hundreds of millions in public funds as Medicaid faces historic cuts.

Sonia Chajet Wides