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A television station on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange broadcasts Donald Trump announcing tariffs.

After 100 Days of Trump, a Growing Economy Started Shrinking After 100 Days of Trump, a Growing Economy Started Shrinking

And according to the president, it’s all Joe Biden’s fault.

May 1, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

In this April 14, 1964, black-and-white file photo, a man holds a Confederate flag at right, as demonstrators, including one carrying a sign reading, “More than 300,000 Negroes are Denied Vote in Ala,” demonstrate in front of an Indianapolis hotel where then–Alabama Governor George Wallace was staying.

We Overcame Jim Crow by Confronting Injustice. We Can Do it Again. We Overcame Jim Crow by Confronting Injustice. We Can Do it Again.

Those billy clubs striking my body strengthened my mind and convinced me that we could overcome segregation. We did so then, and we can overcome Trump’s America today.

May 1, 2025 / Douglas H. White

Teaching Opportunity

Teaching Opportunity Teaching Opportunity

Civics.

May 1, 2025 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the Oval Office on April 18, 2025.

Trump’s Legacy Will Be the Countless People Killed by His Policies Trump’s Legacy Will Be the Countless People Killed by His Policies

Millions across the world could die because of the choices Trump has made in his first 100 days.

May 1, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves

Signs of the Times

Signs of the Times Signs of the Times

In NYC and across the nation, protests erupt.

May 1, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper and Steve Brodner

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain during a “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here” event Saturday, March 8, 2025, at Lincoln High School in Warren, Michigan.

May Day Is a Day for Strikes May Day Is a Day for Strikes

May Day was never just a celebration, a rally, or a march. It was also a day for workers to show their power. And it can be again.

May 1, 2025 / Shawn Fain

Amazon workers affiliated with the Teamsters Union continue a strike at the company's delivery hubs in Maspeth, Queens, borough of New York City just days before Christmas on December 20, 2024.

A New Golden Age for Labor? Not So Fast A New Golden Age for Labor? Not So Fast

Although there’s been an uptick in labor organizing in recent years, it hasn’t been the “resurgence” that many commentators claim it is.

May 1, 2025 / Benjamin Y. Fong

Police detain protesters wearing shirts with the slogan “Stop Arming Israel” during a Pro-Palestinian demonstration in Washington, DC, on November 19, 2024.

The Right-Wing Campaign to Suppress Opposition Consolidates Its Gains The Right-Wing Campaign to Suppress Opposition Consolidates Its Gains

New laws that effectively criminalize dissent reflect the right’s disgust for politically active citizens.

May 1, 2025 / Zohra Ahmed

Shulamith Firestone

Tender, Compassionate, Crushing: The Fiction of Shulamith Firestone Tender, Compassionate, Crushing: The Fiction of Shulamith Firestone

In Airless Spaces, the feminist theorist dramatizes what happens when capitalist alienation makes everybody miserable.

May 1, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Zoe Dubno

Nation Poetry

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May 1, 2025 / Poems / Chris Santiago

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