The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

New Study Reveals Just How Brutal Meat and Poultry Work Is for Workers

Elizabeth Grossman

Labor

Revolt of the ‘Chapulines’: After Strike, Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers Vote To Unionize

David Bacon

Labor

Washington, D.C., Teachers Union Wrestles with the Legacy of Michelle Rhee

Bruce Vail

Comics

Why Trump Can’t be Scooby-Dooed

Matt Bors

Comics

Donald Trump Meets the Avenging Uterus

Matt Bors

Rural America

Voters in Oregon Defeat Nestlé’s Attempt to Privatize Their Water

Alexis Bonogofsky, Truthout

Dispatch

The Fight for Public Control of Land in the Bronx

Residents' last-ditch attempt to keep out a polluting trucking hub.

Raven Rakia

Culture

The Ship Breakers

Working the maritime graveyard shift

Peter Wieben

Rural America

Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are

Elizabeth Henderson

Labor

Union Members Don’t Oppose Environmental Protections. They’re Actually More Likely To Support Them.

Jeremy Brecher and Todd Vachon

Labor

The Verizon Strike Is a Reminder That Improving Workers’ Lives Will Always Require Workplace Action

Elizabeth Mahony

Feature

The Rising American Student Movement Is Part of a Battle for the Soul of Higher Education

Keep an eye on college campuses. The battles fought there are going to matter for the wider world tomorrow.

Aviva Chomsky

Labor

Progressive Nonprofits That Oppose the New Overtime Rules for Low-Income Workers Are Hypocrites

Ethan Miller

Feature

Life After Coal in Harlan County, U.S.A.

Kentucky's lifeblood is drying up.

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein

Rural America

The Rural Healthcare Crisis: Why Obamacare Needs to Cure Itself…and Soon

John Collins

Labor

The Verizon Strike Is Not Just About Wages. It Is About Power and Domination Over Workers.

Alex Gourevitch

Feature

One of the Inventors of Superdelegates Explains Why They Were Created: To Stop ‘Outlier Candidates’

A member of the 1982 commission explains why they created superdelegates and what they hoped to prevent.

Branko Marcetic

Rural America

Big Oil Plots to Exclude Public from Public Land Auctions

Steve Horn