Activism

Abortion Rights Activists

How to Protect Yourself When Abortion Is Illegal: A Q&A With Robin Marty How to Protect Yourself When Abortion Is Illegal: A Q&A With Robin Marty

In her new book Handbook for a Post-Roe America, Robin Marty provides a blueprint for accessing reproductive-health care and fighting for your rights in a country where abortion ha...

Jan 22, 2019 / Editorial / Glyn Peterson

Northwestern and Utah Football

Should NCAA Football Have a Union? Should NCAA Football Have a Union?

Former Northwestern QB Kain Colter stops by to talk organizing NCAA athletes.

Jan 22, 2019 / Audio / Dave Zirin

Trump at Hangar Rally

Needed: A Clear Foreign Policy of Progressive Realism Needed: A Clear Foreign Policy of Progressive Realism

Democrats have the opportunity to define this positive policy, not simply react to Trump’s provocations.

Jan 22, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Reverend Dr. Theoharis at rally

How the Poor People’s Campaign Is Building a ‘New Electorate’ How the Poor People’s Campaign Is Building a ‘New Electorate’

A conversation with Reverend Liz Theoharis on the campaign’s broad agenda for 2019.

Jan 21, 2019 / Greg Kaufmann

Poor People's march

What AOC Owes MLK What AOC Owes MLK

The civil-rights leader’s vision of an equitable economy lives on in Congress’s emerging left.

Jan 21, 2019 / Aaron Ross Coleman

Migrant camp in Vordingborg

‘Social Death’ in Denmark ‘Social Death’ in Denmark

The European country is isolating and excluding asylum seekers until they disappear from society completely.

Jan 20, 2019 / Nicholas Mirzoeff

The Radical Organizing That Paved the Way for LA’s Teachers’ Strike

The Radical Organizing That Paved the Way for LA’s Teachers’ Strike The Radical Organizing That Paved the Way for LA’s Teachers’ Strike

In 2014, a progressive Union Power caucus took over UTLA—and that has made all the difference.

Jan 19, 2019 / Sarah Jaffe

Travis Scott

The Artistic Picket Line Surrounding the Super Bowl Halftime Show The Artistic Picket Line Surrounding the Super Bowl Halftime Show

The spotlight, fairly or unfairly, is on hip-hop artist Travis Scott, for crossing the line and performing on Super Bowl Sunday. 

Jan 18, 2019 / Dave Zirin

Women's March, Washington DC

Turning the Women’s March Into a Mass Movement Was Never Going to Be Simple Turning the Women’s March Into a Mass Movement Was Never Going to Be Simple

The reason goes to the heart of inclusive, democratic movement building.

Jan 18, 2019 / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Martin Luther King Jr.

MLK Warned Us of the Well-Intentioned Liberal MLK Warned Us of the Well-Intentioned Liberal

Dr. King did not compromise on racial justice. Neither should we.

Jan 18, 2019 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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