Stopping Deportations by Blocking Flights
Activists are increasingly putting their bodies on the line to stop deportations from taking place.
Michelle ChenJails and Prisons
Why Prisoners Are Going On Strike Today
Prisoners are striking to end prison slavery, poor living conditions, and death by incarceration.
Raven RakiaActivism
Elizabeth Warren Could Make a Great Run for President as an Anti-Corruption Crusader
She’s got a plan to drain the swamp that is Donald Trump’s Washington. If she takes it on the campaign trail, that’s terrific.
John NicholsWorld Leaders
Remembering Kofi Annan
He consistently expressed a powerful concern for poverty and human rights—but he often succumbed to US power and domination.
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Demand an End to US Support for the War in Yemen
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The Left Is Winning Even When It Loses
Tough primaries don’t change the fact that leftist policies are very popular.
Sean McElwee, Jon Green and Colin McAuliffe
Can Tahirah Amatul-Wadud Become the Next Progressive Woman to Unseat an Incumbent?
The Muslim mother of seven is betting that she, too, can take down a high-ranking career politician, in Massachusetts’s First Congressional District.
Will Meyer
Trump Quietly OK’s Bioengineered Farming on Wildlife Refuges
By rescinding an Obama-era regulation, the administration is giving a green light to agribusiness on protected lands.
Michelle ChenCITIES RISING
These Tenants Are Leading the Largest Rent Strike in LA History
Residents of three buildings in Central Los Angeles are refusing to pay rent until their landlord agrees to fair rent increases.
Armando Aparicio and David ZlutnickLos Angeles’s housing market is in crisis. Low-income communities of color across the city are facing systematic displacement due to gentrification. Skyrocketing housing costs have created a homelessness epidemic that has left almost 60,000 people living on the streets. And now, the city is undergoing its largest rent strike in… Continue Reading >
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‘An Eternal Night of Persecution and Death’: Activists Speak Out About Nicaragua’s Crackdown
Despite mass killings and newly authoritarian laws, a diverse opposition says the movement to oust Ortega is far from over.
Maia Hibbett
I’m One of the Young People Who Walked Off Birthright Israel This Summer
Here’s why I chose to leave the trip.
Bethany Zaiman
When Bosses Threatened to Close the Plant, These Greek Workers Took It Over
While Greece hails the “end” of its debt crisis, more than one in five remain unemployed.
Patrick StricklandOpp-Art: Dispatches from the resistance
Culture
Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter
Angela Davis, whose bond Franklin offered to post in 1970, says that the singer’s work “helped to shape and deepen a collective consciousness anchored in a yearning for freedom.”
Farah Jasmine Griffin
The Rise and Fall of Kanye and Drake
The genres that West and Drake once defined are now the domain of a new generation of musicians.
Bijan Stephen
‘If We Don’t Understand Class Struggle, We Don’t Understand Anything’
Filmmaker Ken Loach on populism, the gig economy, and the importance of transnational solidarity in his movies and beyond.
Lorenzo MarsiliWatch and Listen
Listen: How Do So Many Samoans Make it to the NFL?
Rob Ruck joins the show to talk about the history of Samoans and football.
August 7, 2018
View: PHOTOS: These Students Are Sick and Tired of Gun Violence
“That could be me, my friends, my family.”
April 26, 2018
View: ‘A Border Control Official Sexually Abused Me’
Aura Hernández fled to the US seeking safety. Instead, she encountered threats, harassment, and assault.
April 2, 2018
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