The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Dispatch

Michigan’s Muslims Take Matters Into Their Own Hands

Disgusted by Democrats' ongoing support for the genocide in Gaza, some Muslim and Arab American voters are embracing third-party candidates and community-based forms of political engagement.

Malak Silmi

LaborViewpointElection 2024

The Profits of Fear

Trump’s mass deportation plans are a racist racket with deep roots in U.S. history and law.

Alberto Toscano

Viewpoint

As President, Jimmy Carter Was Not a “Peacemaker”

The late Carter’s foreign policy record as president was mixed at best.

Stephen Zunes

LaborViewpoint

“You Have To Shake Up the Status Quo”: Marilyn Sneiderman’s Struggle To Transform Labor

“Marilyn stands out as a leader who not only recruited disruptors but spent a lot of her time and effort trying to figure out how to defend and maintain the space for disruptors.”

Sarah Jaffe

Labor

Julie Su Is Still Optimistic About the Future of Labor

A discussion between Kim Kelly and Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su about the accomplishments of her tenure, anti-worker threats on the horizon, and keeping faith in challenging times.

Kim Kelly

Viewpoint

Progressives Should Reject the DOGE Scam

There’s nothing to gain from indulging the premise that Musk and Trump care about “government waste”—it’s a ploy to gut the entire liberal state.

Adam Johnson

Labor

SEIU Joins AFL-CIO to 'Unleash a New Era of Worker Power' as Trump 2.0 Looms

"CEOs and billionaires want nothing more than to see workers divided, but we're standing here today with greater solidarity than ever," said AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler.

Jake Johnson

Viewpoint

Trump and RFK Jr.’s Policies Will Make America Sick

The next Trump administration is set to defund healthcare through a pro-corporate agenda. The answer is a universal, single-payer system.

Adam Gaffney

Viewpoint

The Allegory of Would-Be Federal Judge Adeel Mangi

Mangi would have been the nation's first Muslim American federal appeals judge. But thanks to racist Republican attacks and Democratic spinelessness, he lost his appointment.

Jay Willis

Culture

Voices On the Wall

Street art in Bangladesh prevails after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government.

Piyas Biswas

Rural America

Meatpacking Plants Disproportionately Pollute Poor, Non-White Communities

Postville, Iowa has long dealt with the fallout from Agri Star Meat and Poultry, the town’s largest employer—and the same is true in many towns near meatpacking plants.

John McCracken and Mónica Cordero

Rural America

Despite Support for Trump, Rural Voters Split with Republican Party on School Vouchers and Abortion

2024 vote tallies show rural areas are more politically complex than popular party and media narratives would have us believe.

Lane Wendell Fischer

LaborViewpoint

Hospitals Are Desperately Understaffed. Could Co-ops Be an Answer?

Unionized staffing cooperatives like AlliedUP can offer workers not only better pay and benefits, but critical support and a measure ownership over their professional futures.

Osita Nwanevu

ViewpointRural America

The "Yellowstone" TV Show Is Over, but Not the Damage It’s Done to the West

The caricatured version of Montana sold by the show is helping ruin a place its creators never truly understood.

Johnathan Hettinger

Amazon Strike Takeaways: Walk-Outs Slowed Packages, Boosted Union Power

Workers describe tens of thousands of packages delayed—and a strong sense of empowerment within warehouses—after Amazon workers with the Teamsters launched the largest strike to date against one of the world's most powerful companies.

Luis Feliz Leon

Labor

Amazon Unleashed Flood of Water on Striking Workers, Say Teamsters

Teamsters requested an investigation of the flood from Amazon's warehouse that swamped a picket line in Queens; they also filed for a restraining order against the NYPD.

Luis Feliz Leon

Feature

How the LA Tenants Union Fights Displacement with Community

Lessons from a decade of building tenant power

Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis

Labor

NYPD Arrests Workers During Historic Amazon Strike

Police cracked down on striking drivers in Queens who blocked deliveries.

Luis Feliz Leon