VIDEO: A General Strike Is Possible, but We Have to Work for It VIDEO: A General Strike Is Possible, but We Have to Work for It
Jane McAlevey, The Nation’s strikes correspondent, explains how strikes will be vital in confronting runaway income inequality and the climate crisis.
Jul 3, 2019 / The Nation
South Korean Protest Music Is Inspiring Hong Kong’s Demonstrators South Korean Protest Music Is Inspiring Hong Kong’s Demonstrators
Music has been an integral part of Korea’s long march toward democracy. Today, it’s an inspiration for freedom throughout Asia.
Jul 3, 2019 / T.K. Park
The US Is Making a Mockery of Its Asylum Obligations The US Is Making a Mockery of Its Asylum Obligations
Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy sends asylum seekers into dangerous border towns where they struggle to keep safe.
Jul 3, 2019 / John Washington
Eleven Black Trans Women Have Been Murdered This Year. It’s Time for Another Uprising. Eleven Black Trans Women Have Been Murdered This Year. It’s Time for Another Uprising.
A recent survey of black communities in America found that for transgender people, the threat of violence is the biggest concern.
Jul 3, 2019 / Alicia Garza
How Stonewall Veteran Jay Toole’s Life Has Changed Since the Riots—and How It Hasn’t How Stonewall Veteran Jay Toole’s Life Has Changed Since the Riots—and How It Hasn’t
Toole sees Stonewall as a turning point for the LGBTQ movement, but not for everyone in it.
Jul 2, 2019 / Feature / Naomi Gordon-Loebl
The Chronicles of Kevin Durant The Chronicles of Kevin Durant
The Athletic’s national NBA writer Michael Lee joins the show to talk NBA, free-agency, and more.
Jul 2, 2019 / Podcast / Dave Zirin
There Can Be No Queer Liberation Without Trans Liberation There Can Be No Queer Liberation Without Trans Liberation
For 50 years, Trans people have been pushed and shoved to the side of the LGBTQ movement. That ends now.
Jul 2, 2019 / Bamby Salcedo
Franklin Bynum Is a Texas Judge Who Wants to Abolish Prisons Franklin Bynum Is a Texas Judge Who Wants to Abolish Prisons
This week on Next Left, meet a judge who believes our incarceration complex is “not a defensible system.”
Jul 2, 2019 / Podcast / John Nichols
Trump Is Dumping Asylum Seekers on American Streets—but Solidarity Activists Are Fighting Back Trump Is Dumping Asylum Seekers on American Streets—but Solidarity Activists Are Fighting Back
“It’s a humanitarian issue. We will not allow an atrocity to occur in our community.”
Jul 1, 2019 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
What Happened to the Radical Spirit of the Stonewall Rebels? What Happened to the Radical Spirit of the Stonewall Rebels?
The movement for LGBTQ rights has been domesticated, its goals refocused on marriage and family. It can be so much more.
Jun 30, 2019 / Katherine Franke