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ViewpointPalestine
A SWANA Space to Exist
As we pass one year of genocide, Salon Kawakib will not be silenced and we will celebrate our own anniversary: two years of cultural organizing and building community in Chicago.
Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel
Viewpoint
The High Stakes of Mapping the Midwest
How can a state continue to be deadlocked with a legislature controlled by Trumpian Republicans when it’s been busy electing not just Democrats but, in many cases, progressive Democrats?
John Nichols
ViewpointElection 2024
Faux Populism Takes Center Stage at Vice-Presidential Debate
Tuesday’s debate offers Democrats a warning about how much more appealing Trumpism can be when presented in an equally mendacious but more competent way.
Akil Vicks
ViewpointClimate
Citibank Is Bankrolling The Largest Offshore Oil Facility In the U.S.—Just Miles From My Home
As part of the historic Summer of Heat campaign, I went to Citibank’s headquarters to demand climate justice—where dozens of protesters were arrested.
Sue Page
ViewpointElection 2024
The Disturbing Reason Trump and Vance Peddle Lies About Immigrants
The influx of Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio is a success story, not a scandal. But when powerful people don’t want to share prosperity, they lie.
Peter Certo
ViewpointPalestine
"We Can’t Arrest Our Way to Liberation"
After the Palestinian Nabala Cafe was attacked, owner Eyad Zeid decided not to turn to police. Instead, he found strength and support in community.
Eyad Zeid
Viewpoint
Feminism, Debt and Organizing Against Argentina’s Far Right
Debt is a Crucial Organizing Avenue Against Argentina’s Far Right.
Verónica Gago and Lucí Cavallero
ViewpointPalestine
New York Times Repeats U.S. Government’s Evidence-Free Claim That Gaza Protests Are Part of Iranian Plot
Where is the actual evidence that Iranian operatives “posing as students” are helping organize and fund campus protests over the war on Gaza?
Adam Johnson
LaborViewpoint
The Weird and Stupid Teamsters Non-Endorsement Fiasco
Refusing to endorse a presidential candidate will do nothing to stop Trump and the GOP’s war on workers.
Hamilton Nolan
Viewpoint
Exiting Prison With No Money, No Credit and No Way to Avoid Debt
How the consequences of incarceration and reentry create financial–and social–debt.
Calvin John Smiley
Viewpoint
Fighting Privatization Is Good for Mental Health
Dedicated community leaders and persistent organizing are helping make Chicago’s new expansion of public mental health services a reality.
Elena Gormley
Viewpoint
Low-Wage Corporations Are Fleecing Their Workers to Massively Inflate CEO Pay
Why don’t low wage workers earn more? Because their bosses plowed $522 million into manipulating their stock price—and CEO paychecks—instead.
Sarah Anderson
ViewpointElection 2024
Kamala Harris Says “We’re Not Going Back.” But What’s Her Plan Forward?
In last night’s presidential debate, Harris outperformed Trump. Yet she was light on policy specifics and failed to articulate how her agenda would mark a clean break from the past.
Branko Marcetic
ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
The Right Is Increasingly Exploiting the Horror of Genocide
Right-wing operatives are channeling the genocide in Gaza into mainstream antisemitism.
Ben Lorber
ViewpointPalestineDispatch
Displaced in Gaza: Dispatches
We share their dreams and aspirations, to tell them that there will be a day when the Palestinian people will live in freedom and dignity.
Yousef Aljamal
ViewpointElection 2024
Project 2025 Could Erase More Than 1.7 Million Jobs and Hike Electricity Prices By $32 Billion
A new study shows that the Republican game plan would lead to mass job losses and higher energy costs for consumers.
Yaseen al-Sheikh
Viewpoint
The Unsung History of Heartland Socialism
While often overlooked, the spirit of socialism has coursed through the American Midwest ever since the movement emerged in the 19th century. It continues to animate the region’s political landscape today.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
ViewpointElection 2024
To Win Over Working-Class Voters, Harris and Other Democrats Should Embrace Economic Populism
New research shows that the key to combating Trumpism lies in targeting economic elites.
Isaac Rabbani and Fred DeVeaux
ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
The Democratic Convention Failed the Palestine Movement
The Uncommitted movement made modest demands on the Democratic Party toward ending the agony in Gaza, and the party rejected them. But their demands cannot be ignored by Democratic power brokers forever.
Hadas Thier
ViewpointElection 2024
A Missed Opportunity for Kamala Harris at the DNC
In her acceptance speech, Harris chose to embrace Republican language on the economy—even if she backs a more progressive approach.
Sonali Kolhatkar
ViewpointClimateRural America
Two Years and $300 Billion into Biden’s Climate Plan, Emissions Are Higher than Ever
Green energy and fossil fuels are rising hand in hand. The growth-based climate framework is fundamentally broken.
Peter Gelderloos
ViewpointElection 2024
To Beat Trump, Harris Should Talk About Harris
It is a way to share who they are, reminding us of who we are, and why we must choose to act now—a story of self, a story of us, and a story of now. And this year, the outcome of the election could well depend on whether Kamala Harris can tell us this story.
Marshall Ganz
ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
Genocide and the English Language
The disjunction between our political language and political reality reveals the vacuum of thought in the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
Alberto Toscano
ViewpointElection 2024
Kamala Harris Can Do Better Than This
The most striking thing about the Democratic nominee’s economic platform is its timidity. She could go much further to lift up the working class.
Max B. Sawicky
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