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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

Biden, Harris, Gaza and the Student Debt Smoke Screen

President Biden has made appearances to be aligned with left-wing activists on student debt cancelation while holding back on his power to deliver it. How will Vice President Harris now approach the issue?

Braxton Brewington and Yousef Aljamal