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It's Time to Choose: Democracy, or Billionaires?

The only way to steer American democracy to safety is to wrest money out of the claws of the wealthiest elites, who now control finances rivaling the economies of whole nations.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Photo of a man with a greying beard cradling four large liter water bottles. There is a crowd of men and children behind him, some also holding water bottles.

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

In Gaza, Palestinians Are Running Out of Water and Tears

“I don’t know what it will take for the world to stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza.”

Yousef Aljamal

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Democratic Socialists of America Is Helping Rebuild the U.S. Anti-War Movement

Despite recent public resignations from some longtime members who disagree with the organization’s work and positions supporting Palestinian freedom, DSA is growing—and building coalitions across the U.S. Left.

Daphna Thier

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Biden Is His Own Worst Enemy in 2024. Time for Someone Else.

In fumbling his response to Gaza, the President has redrawn the electoral map against himself—and the latest attempts to course correct won’t save him.

Gabriel Winant

U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) speaks in front of a poster-sized image of Reps. George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene cackling.

Viewpoint

Republican Chaos Is a State of Being

The party’s status quo is, at best, dysfunctional, leaving the conservative movement with no winners save the opportunists taking advantage of the ideological civil war.

Eoin Higgins

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Don’t Let the Flailing Center Box Out the Left’s Powerful Possibilities

Public fractures within Jewish communities provoked by Gaza genocide offer lessons—and paths forward—for progressives, Jewish and not.

Dania Rajendra and Rebecca Vilkomerson

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Demand for a Cease-Fire in Gaza

The World War I phenomenon should remind us of the urgency to end the mass killings—and to help us realize that a cease-fire to stop the violence is within reach.

Phyllis Bennis

LaborViewpoint

Ten Predictions for Labor in 2024

Our crystal ball shows splintering coalitions, the rise of a new vanguard, and more.

Hamilton Nolan

ViewpointCulture

Why Leftists Should Read The Man Who Changed Colors

"It is critically important that Leftists and progressives understand the complexity of humans rather than demonizing or idealizing anyone."

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

ViewpointThe Right-Wing Issue

National Conservatives, Postliberals and the Nietzschean Right: Meet Today’s Terrifying GOP

The New Right is mad, organized and wholly unafraid to wield state power.

Matt McManus

ViewpointThe Right-Wing Issue

How Colleges Became Recruitment Hubs for the Gen-Z Right

Right-wing Zoomers are outflanking their MAGA elders in enthusiastic embrace of radically anti-democratic, exclusionary and bigoted beliefs.

Ben Lorber

An image of Bernie Sanders in a suit and tie, briefly pausing on his walk to Senate chambers.

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Bernie Sanders Has Finally Called for a Cease-Fire. Sort Of.

Prior to today's letter, the senator had urged for a “humanitarian pause.”

Mindy Isser

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

This Chanukah Is a Time for Palestine Solidarity, From Fasting to Public Disruption

Remembering that Chanukah means “rededication,” as we light the candles each night, we can rededicate ourselves to solidarity with Palestine for the long haul.

Maya Schenwar

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Why Journalists Must Speak out About Gaza

Attacks on journalism and media are dangerous to us all.

Aja Arnold, Rae Garringer, Rebecca Chowdhury, Tina Vásquez, Irene Vázquez, Victoria Bouloubasis, Charmaine Lang, Nour Saudi and Lewis Raven Wallace

LaborViewpoint

The UAW Just Challenged the Entire Labor Movement to Get More Ambitious

The United Auto Workers announced a new campaign to organize 150,000 new members at non-union shops. Every other major union should follow suit.

Hamilton Nolan

ViewpointRural America

Donald Trump Makes a Mockery of Populism

To call Trump a “populist” is to desecrate the memory of the 19th century movement that took on robber barons like him.

Tim Brinkhof

LaborViewpoint

The UAW Strike Points the Way To a Different Vision of Economic Life

From its novel strategy to unprecedented contract wins, the United Auto Workers strike made history. The walkout suggests a broader revival of class struggle and workplace democracy.

Nick French

ViewpointIsrael & PalestineThe Right-Wing Issue

Israel’s Brutality Is Stoking the Imagination of India's Far Right

As the genocide in Gaza continues, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking notes.

Aparna Gopalan

Hundreds of people of different backgrounds stand shoulder to shoulder in a crowd.

ViewpointIsrael & PalestineThe Right-Wing Issue

The Right's Persecution of Palestine Supporters Looks a Lot Like a New Red Scare

Workers have been fired. Students have lost job offers. Activists have been harassed. But you can’t bully a movement into silence.

Nashwa Bawab

A person holds up a sign that reads "JEWS SAY: CEASEFIRE NOW". Behind them is another sign that reads "NO TO WAR NO TO APARTHEID". The U.S. Capitol Building is seen in the background, behind the crowd of protestors.

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Israel’s Violence Will Never Bring “Safety” to Anyone, Including Jews

We need to confront the violence of Israel’s ethnonationalist militarism.

Sarah Lazare and Maya Schenwar

ViewpointThe Right-Wing Issue

The Rise of the Far Right Is a Global Phenomenon

Facing a planetary wave of far-right authoritarianism, from Italy’s Giorgia Meloni to Argentina’s Javier Milei, the Left must learn to “organize despair.”

Alberto Toscano

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

The ADL Is Making It Less Safe to Be a Progressive Jew

In our topsy-turvy reality, the organization most associated with fighting antisemitism, the Anti-Defamation League, has cast its lot with antisemites.

Ben Lorber

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Celebrated Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha Reportedly Seized in Gaza

One may wonder why Israel would kidnap a poet. The answer, though painful, is simple. In its genocidal war against Palestinians, Israel seeks to erase not only Palestinian lives but also their culture and heritage.

Jehad Abusalim

Viewpoint

After a Long Defeat, Labor Is Rising from the Ashes

Stephen Franklin on labor's losses—and explosive resurgence

Stephen Franklin