The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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The Brexit Vote and the Future of the European Union

We can only hope that common sense will prevail.

Jane Miller

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At the People’s Summit, Activists Plot How to Take Bernie Sanders’ Revolution Down Ballot

Participants are looking to carry their momentum on to local races around the country.

Simon Davis-Cohen

Labor

After Teachers Union Protests Against Education Reform, Mexican Police Kill 8 Protesters in Oaxaca

Parker Asmann

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How Union Contracts Shield Police Departments from DOJ Reforms

Even when the federal government cracks down on police abuses, collective bargaining agreements often stymie reforms.

Adeshina Emmanuel

Viewpoint

A Newly Leaked Hillary Clinton Memo Shows How Campaigns Get Around Super PAC Rules

It's not that hard.

Branko Marcetic

Viewpoint

You Don’t Have to Like Hillary Clinton—But Sexist Attacks On Her Supporters Are Shameful

The gendered attacks against Clinton and her supporters must come to an end.

Susan J. Douglas

Labor

Baltimore May Be the Next City to Adopt a $15 Minimum Wage

Bruce Vail

What Are People Saying About the Stanford Case?

George Lavender

Rural America

Extractive Economies Threaten an Ancient Grain in Minnesota

Laray Polk

Labor

What the Labor Movement Can Learn from Bernie Sanders’ Unapologetic Socialism

Joe Burns

Labor

Chicago Workers Are Close to Winning a New Paid Sick Leave Law

Jeff Schuhrke

Rural America

North Dakota Voters Side With Family Farms and Continue 84-Year-Old Ban on Corporate Ownership

Alex McLeese

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Democrats Say Superdelegates Have Never Decided An Election. In 1984, They Thought the Opposite.

A review of newspaper reports from 1984 shows that Democratic officials believed the superdelegate system had "virtually assured" the nomination for the establishment candidate.

Branko Marcetic

Rural America

“We’ve Broken the Planet”: A Case for Liberation Ecology and the Rights of Nature

Thomas Linzey

Culture

The View From Today’s Versailles

A new book by Michelle Fields, former Breitbart reporter, rightly skewers our political class—but suffers from a case of hypocrisy

Chris Lehmann

Labor

The Right to Strike Must Mean the Right to Return to Work After a Strike

Shaun Richman

Feature

Looking for the Left in Argentina

Why haven’t President Mauricio Macri’s economic reforms faced the same sort of public resistance that was seen around Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis?

Graciela Monteagudo

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The Left Must Put Refugees and Migration at the Heart of Its Politics

Mathew Carr rebukes Europe's inhumane and fear-fueled response to the refugee crisis.

Tom Ladendorf