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Interview
Politics
The Christian Right’s 250-Year Fight Against America
Many religious groups have wanted to destroy liberal democracy, explains author Jerome Copulsky. But before Trump, none had taken power.
Kathryn Joyce
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Labor
Interview
What's Really Artificial About AI is AI Itself
"The phrase artificial intelligence is a marketing term that is used to sprinkle some magic fairy dust that brings the venture capital dollars."
Sarah Jaffe
3
Labor
Feature
Donald Trump's Disastrous Scott Walker Moment
Trump and Elon Musk are making drastic cuts to the federal workforce. Unions are fighting back.
Sarah Jaffe
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Comics
Comics
Ai Should Replace Your Boss And Other Comics
New comics by Tom Tomorrow, Mattie Lubchanksy, Jen Sorensen and Sam Wallman.
Tom Tomorrow, Mattie Lubchansky, Jen Sorensen and Sam Wallman
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Rural America
Trump’s Cuts to AmeriCorps Are Stripping Resources from Rural Communities
DOGE has slashed over 1,000 AmeriCorps grants, many of which funded education and social services in rural areas.
Ilana Newman
6
Feature
"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer
A poem written before the author's death in an airstrike by the Israeli military.
Refaat Alareer
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Feature
Palestine
"It Is Neither Death, Nor Suicide"
Gaza’s Declaration of Life—and Living
Jehad Abusalim
8
Labor
After Trump Takeover, Kennedy Center Workers Vote to Unionize
The nation's premier cultural stage joins a chorus of voices in the arts demanding just labor conditions as a pillar of free expression.
Michelle Chen
9
Feature
Cover Story
Politics
“I Am Not Afraid”
The Trump administration is attacking protesters from all angles. Activists refuse to back down.
Adam Federman
10
Feature
Veteran on ‘American Sniper’: The Lies Chris Kyle Told Are Less Dangerous Than the Lies He Believed
Enough about Chris Kyle. Let’s focus our anger against the authorities and the institutions that craft the lies that the Chris Kyles of the world believe.
Brock McIntosh
11
Comics
SeverVance and Other Comics
New comics by Mattie Lubchansky, Jen Sorensen, Tom Tomorrow and Ruben Bolling.
Mattie Lubchansky, Jen Sorensen, Tom Tomorrow and Ruben Bolling
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Feature
Global Trade at Gunpoint
Trump is setting up a protection racket to expand corporate power around the world
Sarah Lazare
13
Viewpoint
Politics
Two Years After Electing a Mayor, Chicago’s Left Keeps Contesting for Power
Movement-backed Mayor Brandon Johnson and a record class of progressive alders took office exactly two years ago. I spoke with more than a dozen organizers about what we’ve won, what we’ve learned about power and what’s still to be done to deliver a more equitable city.
Asha Ransby-Sporn
14
Labor
Viewpoint
Trump’s Budget Bill Will Massively Expand the Racial Wealth Gap
The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is set to be a disaster for Black workers.
LaToya Parker and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad
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Viewpoint
Politics
Built to Dominate
Palantir is designing the infrastructure of repression—and telling us why.
Alberto Toscano
16
Politics
No Wheat, Milk, Rice, Medicines: How the U.S. and Israel Are Starving Yemen
The Trump administration announced a truce with the Houthi rebels on May 6, but this was after the United States had already bombed critical infrastructure for importing food and fuel.
Sarah Lazare
17
Housing
Two Tenant Unions, One Rent Strike
How renters in two Chicago neighborhoods found each other—and fought back—when the same investor planned to displace them.
Rebecca Burns
18
Feature
The Most Hated Woman on the Internet
Haters--myself included--have pummeled Amanda Palmer so far beyond recognition that it’s disconcerting to hear her actual voice in her new memoir, The Art of Asking.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
19
Labor
Dispatch
The Cost of Salt
India’s salt-production industry has seen massive growth over the past 75 years, but the working conditions of the country’s salt pan workers are deteriorating.
Pragathi Ravi
20
Palestine
My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner
A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.
Mahmoud Khalil
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Viewpoint
Culture
On Lizzo and Sex and Bananas, Oh My!
At the end of the day, the Lizzo story is not about sex: it’s about labor.
Yasmin Nair
22
How Spotify Is Quietly Supporting the Military-Industrial Complex
Unbeknownst to most users, Spotify has a secret endeavor—backing the efforts of war.
Jennifer Stavros
23
Viewpoint
Election 2024
The Power of Dumb
In the Second Trump Era, don't expect reality to be realistic.
Hamilton Nolan
24
Labor
Viewpoint
Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.
The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.
Kim Kelly
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How a “Plan 2028” Could Bring Labor and Social Movements Together
Mass strikes? Escalating disruptions? The call for unified action on May 2028 presents real opportunity if we start now.
Stephanie Luce
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Culture
The Socialism Issue
Meet the Left YouTubers Blowing Up the Alt-Right Pipeline
The Right has flooded the internet with misinformation. The content creators of BreadTube are doing something about it.
Armand D. Jackson, Ivonne Ortiz and Xuandi Wang
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Culture
Sex and the City's Soft White Supremacy
The new non-white BFFs just serve as accessories (to the white women at the center of the show)
Yasmin Nair
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