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How to Listen to Michigan at the DNC in Chicago

From Dearborn to Benton Harbor, working people in the Great Lakes State are building progressive power. One of the efforts that emerged transformed into the Uncommitted national movement.

Eman Abdelhadi

ViewpointElection 2024

4 Talking Points Used to Smear DNC Protesters—And Why They’re Bogus

As the Democratic National Convention descends on Chicago, protesters are taking to the streets demanding an end to U.S. support for the genocide in Gaza. Don’t buy the arguments of those criticizing them.

Adam Johnson

ViewpointElection 2024

Democracy Despises a Coronation

Let the DNC be a battle. It's healthy. We'll kick Trump's ass on the other side.

Hamilton Nolan

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Scenes From a Sacrifice Zone: South Baltimore Residents Fight Back Against Industrial Pollution

“I want everybody in this community to be able to breathe clean air, and it's time to say enough's enough.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

The Farmers Who Can’t Afford Farms

Thirty-eight percent of young farmers—including 62% of young Black farmers—have student debt, which can make it impossible to take on farm loans.

Joseph Bullington

Housing

Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless

How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Borders and the Exchange of Humans for Debt

Borders and debt are new instruments of violence in a system that has had many names.

Heba Gowayed

ViewpointPalestine

The Grave Cost of Funding Israel's War Machine

To end U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, cold, hard calculations about war spending versus domestic programs could have greater resonance in an election year.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Viewpoint

UK Riots Have Their Roots in a History of Hate

The racism in the streets was seeded by the racism of the state.

Alberto Toscano