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Big Idea: Ranked-Choice Voting

Ranked-choice elections, which allow voters to express their preference for third-party candidates without "splitting the vote," could help bring disillusioned Americans back to the ballot box.

J. Patrick Patterson

Culture

In Our Fight for Sexual Liberation, We Must Not Forget About Sex Workers

Meet the traveling queer porn festival that promotes LGBTQ rights and safer practices for sex workers.

Malachi Lily

Escaping to Altadena Only to Flee Flames

January's wildfires impact historic Black communities in Southern California.

Adam Mahoney

Culture

The Light That Lingers: Celebrating Over 30 Years of Black Filmmaking

At the Black Harvest Film Festival, storytelling becomes a terrain of resilience.

jada-amina

Dispatch

The New Yorkers Standing Behind Migrants

A mutual aid group works to equip migrants displaced from a shelter on federal land.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborDispatch

How the Teamsters Tested Amazon

A look back at the organizing power of the holiday-season Amazon strikes.

Luis Feliz Leon

ViewpointRural America

The Latest Plot To Privatize Public Lands

With no provisions to address the affordability crisis for locals, a new plan to open public land to housing developers would only speed the wealthy's takeover of the West.

Joseph Bullington

LaborPolitics

Elon Musk's DOGE Targets Labor Department

Ahead of a planned Department of Labor visit by Elon Musk’s government-slashing group, unions launched protests and a lawsuit.

Kim Kelly

Labor

In the Wake of Bourbon Street Attack, the Super Bowl Arrives in New Orleans—and so Does a Major Strike

Nurses at University Medical Center are walking off the job Wednesday and Thursday in a strike designed to maximize impact just ahead of the big game.

Sarah Jaffe