The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Rural America

We Got the Whole World in Our Hands, E.O. Wilson Says We Should Give Half of it Back

Dayton Martindale

Comics

The Problem With Obama’s SCOTUS Pick

Matt Bors

Labor

Oakland Workers Join Grassroots Environmental Justice Activists To ‘Say No to Coal’

Eric K. Arnold

Labor

Over 1,000 LA Nurses Finish Weeklong Strike Today, Saying Work Conditions Are Dangerous for Patients

Mario Vasquez

Rural America

The Farm Bill Drove Me Insane: A Professor’s Attempt to Understand 357 Pages of Really Bad Policy

Marion Nestle

Viewpoint

Chicago Activists Should Be Commended, Not Scolded, for Shutting Down Donald Trump’s Rally

Peaceful resistance doesn’t egg on Trump’s supporters—it forces them to back down.

Marilyn Katz

Feature

Four Years Since a Chicago Police Officer Killed Rekia Boyd, Justice Still Hasn’t Been Served

Rekia is not forgotten. Her spirit lives in current organizing and protests in Chicago and around the country.

Mariame Kaba

Labor

It’s Time for the Labor Movement To Pursue a New Judicial Activist Agenda

Shaun Richman

Dispatch

These New Co-op Apps Show How to Build Worker Power In the Age of Uber

In the apps of the "platform cooperativism" movement, workers share in the profits

Tom Ladendorf

Viewpoint

Stranger Danger: To Resolve the Migrant Crisis We Must Recognize the Stranger Within Ourselves

It is such silence that really helps our racist enemies in that it feeds the distrust of ordinary people—(“You see, they are not telling us the truth!”)—boosting the credibility of racist rumors and lies.

Slavoj Žižek

Feature

Shutting Down Donald Trump’s Rallies Isn’t the Way To Defeat Him

Anti-Trump protesters should focus their efforts on countering his messages, not preventing him from speaking..

David Moberg

Feature

Donald Trump is Not a Populist—Not in the Original Sense, Anyway

Tapping into white, working class discontent and xenophobia does not make you a populist.

David Cochran

Viewpoint

Why Don’t African-American Voters Feel the Bern?

Better the devil they know than the one they don't.

Peter White

Labor

Where Would Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee Merrick Garland Stand on Labor Issues?

David Moberg

Viewpoint

How Bernie Sanders Bridged a Generational Divide

The 74-year old Sanders has proved to be the anti-greedy geezer.

Susan J. Douglas

Viewpoint

Tuesday Night Was Pretty Rough for Bernie Sanders

But his supporters should take solace in the fact that he has opened up new possibilities in American politics.

Marc Daalder

Viewpoint

The Morning After the Nomination: Will Clinton and Sanders Supporters Come Together?

On July 28, either Sanders or Clinton will accept the Democratic Party nomination. It will be up to their supporters to unite in November.

Joel Bleifuss

Viewpoint

How Black Youth Helped Unseat Anita Alvarez and Transform the Face of Criminal Justice in Chicago

Black youth-led groups organizing for justice played a key role in Kim Foxx's win in the Cook County state's attorney race Tuesday night. And they're showing no signs of slowing down.

Miles Kampf-Lassin