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It's Not a Question. To Win in November, Harris Needs to Break From Biden and Trump on Gaza.
Harris must immediately break from disastrous policies that put the demands of warmongers and war profiteers over human rights and justice.
Ramah Kudaimi
ViewpointElection 2024
Kamala Harris Should Run on Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers
As the DNC convenes in Chicago, Democrats should follow the city’s lead by embracing a pro-worker policy that ends a legacy of discrimination and exploitation.
Nataki Rhodes and Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
ViewpointElection 2024Rural America
Republicans Will Weaponize Rural Suffering as Long as Democrats Ignore It
JD Vance is a poser, but he’s telling a dangerously compelling story about rural America that Democrats are doing nothing to defuse.
Joseph Bullington
ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
Democrats Shouldn't Isolate Abortion Access
Democratic leaders appear set on siloing abortion access from other critical issues—including the genocide in Gaza. That’s a mistake.
Anne Rumberger
ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
"And Now They Want Our Votes"
Eman Abdelhadi's speech from the "Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws" demonstration on Aug. 18 in Chicago.
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
ViewpointClimate
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
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
LaborViewpointPalestine
Why Is the UAW’s Federal Monitor Involving Himself in the Union’s Stance on Gaza?
The monitor tasked with overseeing the union’s compliance with a federal consent decree is inappropriately challenging the union’s call for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Andy Levin and Sanjukta Paul
Viewpoint
The Devastatingly Simple Answer to Why Cori Bush Lost
Wealthy pro-Israel donors drove Rep. Cori Bush out of office because she thinks Palestinians’ lives matter.
Ben Burgis
ViewpointElection 2024
The GOP Is Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
From NatCon to the RNC, Republicans are dropping the pretense of religious pluralism to go all in on Christian Nationalism.
Annika Brockschmidt
ViewpointElection 2024
The Left Are the Adults in the Room
Progressives have earned the party's ear at the Democratic National Convention—here's how to use it.
Osita Nwanevu
ViewpointElection 2024
Trump, Vance and the Right-Wing Counter-Revolutionaries
The Right’s perennial call for “order” doesn’t necessarily mean affirming the existing order.
Matt McManus
ViewpointElection 2024
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Claims on Healthcare Aren’t Just Xenophobic—They’re False
Far from draining the nation’s healthcare coffers, immigrants are actually shoring them up. But that reality is inconvenient for Republicans.
Adam Gaffney
ViewpointElection 2024
Project 2025 Is Dead. Long Live Project 2025.
Trump, Vance and the hateful horizons of “trad futurism.”
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
ViewpointElection 2024
Kamala Harris’s Veep List is a Choice Between the Past and the Present for Education
VP contender Josh Shapiro has been a staunch supporter of school vouchers. Voters want good public schools—and a vice president willing to fight for them.
Akil Vicks
ViewpointFeature
875,000 Veterans, $382 Million in Medical Debt
When you’re 72 years old, disabled and a $108,094 notice lands in your mailbox—along with the number for a veterans suicide hotline.
Rory Fanning
LaborViewpointPalestine
Unions Demanding an End to Israel Military Aid Is a Welcome Escalation
While the Biden administration uses rhetorical tricks and delay tactics, labor unions are pressuring the White House to end the war by embracing an increasingly popular demand: “not one more bomb.”
Adam Johnson
ViewpointElection 2024
J.D. Vance’s Appalachian Graveyard
The Republican VP nominee’s politics of blame were never meant to help the working class.
Elizabeth Catte
ViewpointRural America
Utah’s Development Plans Threaten My Navajo Homeland
Tribes came together to win federal protection for Bears Ears. Now, the state of Utah could undermine the monument.
Mark Maryboy
ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
An Untold History of Joe Biden's Support for Israel
Documents reviewed in Delaware and New York give insight into how, starting early in Biden's political career, his positions appear to have significantly changed as his relationships strengthened with a growing pro-Israel lobby.
Branko Marcetic
ViewpointPalestine
The Congressional Black Caucus Should Boycott Netanyahu's Speech to Congress
Many Black members of Congress boycotted Netanyahu’s speech to Congress in 2015. They should do it again to protest the Israeli-led genocide in Gaza.
Khury Petersen-Smith
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