Activism

Polluter’s Carbon Tax Credit

Polluter’s Carbon Tax Credit Polluter’s Carbon Tax Credit

Damaging the environment can’t be paid off.

Dec 2, 2022 / Peter Kuper

Salvadore Allende addressing UN

Salvador Allende Still Speaks to Us Today Salvador Allende Still Speaks to Us Today

Chilean President Gabriel Boric and Spanish Prime Minster Pedro Sanchez both find themselves besieged by a virulent resurgence of the same right-wing movements that demolished demo...

Dec 2, 2022 / Ariel Dorfman

Karen Bass at news conference

Will LA’s New Mayor Karen Bass Reset the City’s Labor and Housing Markets? Will LA’s New Mayor Karen Bass Reset the City’s Labor and Housing Markets?

Or will her administration stand by as a series of high-profile sporting events turn the city into Doha on the Pacific?

Dec 2, 2022 / Left Coast / Sasha Abramsky

Biden receives Covid booster shot

Pandemic Year 3: Who’s Got the Power? Pandemic Year 3: Who’s Got the Power?

Has public health failed us? Or have we failed public health?

Dec 1, 2022 / Editorial / Gregg Gonsalves

Customers at Subway

Fast Food Runs in My Family Fast Food Runs in My Family

Me, my mother, and 10 years of the Fight for $15.

Nov 30, 2022 / Vanessa Ogle

Harvard Abortion Protest

Young People Made It Clear: Abortion Rights Must Be Codified Young People Made It Clear: Abortion Rights Must Be Codified

Across the country, Gen Z and millennial voters prioritized abortion during the 2022 midterm elections. Will their historic turnout be rewarded?

Nov 30, 2022 / StudentNation / Zoe Sharif

John Fetterman with Josh Shapiro

A Tale of Two Campaigns in Pennsylvania A Tale of Two Campaigns in Pennsylvania

The Shapiro and Fetterman victories show there’s more than one way to win as a Democrat.

Nov 29, 2022 / Allison Troy and Jonathan Smucker

Colorado Springs shooting memorial

The Club Q Massacre and the New Culture of Lynching The Club Q Massacre and the New Culture of Lynching

Homophobic violence is fueled by the extreme right’s victim blaming.

Nov 28, 2022 / Jeet Heer

No One Can Take Away Our Joy

No One Can Take Away Our Joy No One Can Take Away Our Joy

Across time and place, and amid grueling violence, trans people love and care for our own.

Nov 25, 2022 / Chase Strangio

Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, at the COP27 summit.

Dismantling Bretton Woods to Pay the Climate Bill Dismantling Bretton Woods to Pay the Climate Bill

Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending.

Nov 25, 2022 / Editorial / Tina Gerhardt

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