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A billboard in Times Square calls for the release of the Epstein files. July 23, 2025, in New York City.

Trump’s Release of the MLK Jr. Files Was a Pathetic Gamble Trump’s Release of the MLK Jr. Files Was a Pathetic Gamble

The move is only more proof of the desperation behind Trump’s Epstein Distraction Campaign.

Sep 2, 2025 / Clarence Lusane

Ribbons hang on September 22, 2015, adjacent to the parking lot where Hun Joon “Paul” Lee was found dead on a school bus. Lee, a 19-year-old autistic student, died after being left on a school bus at the Whittier Union High School District parking lot in Whittier, California.

The Stereotypes Killing Us Nonspeaking Autistics The Stereotypes Killing Us Nonspeaking Autistics

Another autistic person was left to cook alive in a hot vehicle. Far too often, the so-called normal world treats us as disposable.

Sep 2, 2025 / Jason Jacoby Lee

Speak Up!

Speak Up! Speak Up!

Free speech and the free press are cornerstones of democracy.

Sep 2, 2025 / OppArt / Martha Lewis

Employees with Project Weber-Renew in Providence, Rhode Island.

This Overdose Prevention Center Isn’t Giving Up on Harm Reduction This Overdose Prevention Center Isn’t Giving Up on Harm Reduction

Over the past decade, overdose protections and programs like Project Weber-Renew have expanded, but with Trump back in office, this trend may be short lived.

Sep 2, 2025 / StudentNation / Fareed Salmon

Sylvia Beach and James Joyce, 1920.

Who Writes the Biographer’s Biography? Who Writes the Biographer’s Biography?

Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s landmark work on James Joyce asks whether a biographer can be considered an artist.

Sep 2, 2025 / Michelle Taylor

People attend a rally on August 28, 2025, at Pasadena Auto Wash, where six employees were detained in an immigration raid last weekend.

The Terror and Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Machine The Terror and Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Machine

The administration’s immigration policies have gone from awful to monstrous, culminating with this weekend’s move to send roughly 600 unaccompanied children back to Guatemala...

Sep 1, 2025 / Column / Sasha Abramsky

Netanyahu Targets Journalists in Gaza

Netanyahu Targets Journalists in Gaza Netanyahu Targets Journalists in Gaza

Starvation and genocide in Palestine continues undeterred.

Sep 1, 2025 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards

Sara Nelson

“There Are No Illegal Strikes—Only Unsuccessful Ones”: A Conversation With Sara Nelson “There Are No Illegal Strikes—Only Unsuccessful Ones”: A Conversation With Sara Nelson

The international president of the Association of Flight Attendants explains how labor solidarity can “set the agenda and make things better.”

Sep 1, 2025 / Q&A / Laura Flanders

Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale, right, congratulates Sandy Koufax, left, in the dressing room after Koufax pitched the Dodgers to the National League Championship, hurling a 3-1 win over the Milwaukee Braves in the pennant-clinching game on October 2, 1965.

Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Belong in the Labor Movement Hall of Fame Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Belong in the Labor Movement Hall of Fame

In the mid-1960s, the two pitchers inspired major league ballplayers to build a union and challenge the owners’ stranglehold on their lives, pay, and working conditions.

Sep 1, 2025 / Peter Dreier

AFGE President Everett Kelley speaks during the Hands Off! day of action against the Trump administration and Elon Musk on April 5, 2025, in Washington, DC.

“They Will Attack Every Organized Worker in America” “They Will Attack Every Organized Worker in America”

Talking to the head of America’s largest union of federal workers about Trump’s assault on his members and all of labor.

Sep 1, 2025 / John Nichols

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