Activism

Mike Davis.

Mike Davis: 1946–2022 Mike Davis: 1946–2022

A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory.

Oct 25, 2022 / Obituary / Jon Wiener

21,000 Supporters Urge Alvin Bragg to Free Tracy McCarter

21,000 Supporters Urge Alvin Bragg to Free Tracy McCarter 21,000 Supporters Urge Alvin Bragg to Free Tracy McCarter

The Manhattan district attorney is prosecuting McCarter in the death of her estranged husband.

Oct 25, 2022 / Victoria Law

Can These Farmers Decolonize the Wine Industry?

Can These Farmers Decolonize the Wine Industry? Can These Farmers Decolonize the Wine Industry?

In California and beyond, a new generation of winemaker-activists are using hybrid and indigenous grapes to create transformational change.

Oct 25, 2022 / Photo Essay / Colleen Hamilton

Democratic Socialists of America

Young Socialists Are Sick of the 2-Party System Young Socialists Are Sick of the 2-Party System

YDSA, the youth section of the largest socialist organization in the country, is tired of working within the Democratic Party. Can they create an alternative?

Oct 25, 2022 / StudentNation / Zurie Pope

Biden Needs to Stop Boasting About the Economy

Biden Needs to Stop Boasting About the Economy Biden Needs to Stop Boasting About the Economy

Pollster Stanley Greenberg is the Cassandra warning of Democratic Party complacency.

Oct 24, 2022 / Jeet Heer

Queer Liberation March

Trans People’s Rights Are on the Ballot, but Many Won’t Be Able to Vote Trans People’s Rights Are on the Ballot, but Many Won’t Be Able to Vote

Over 850,000 trans Americans are eligible to vote in the midterms. But strict voter ID laws, less mail-in voting, and other barriers will make it more difficult.

Oct 24, 2022 / StudentNation / Theia Chatelle

Liz Truss

Leaderless, Rudderless Britain Is at the Mercy of Desperate Conservatives Leaderless, Rudderless Britain Is at the Mercy of Desperate Conservatives

Liz Truss was a hopeless, incompetent leader. But the temptation of a return to the discredited certainties of free-market dogma proved impossible for her party to resist.

Oct 21, 2022 / Gary Younge

Without an Economic Message, Democrats Will Never Close the Deal

Without an Economic Message, Democrats Will Never Close the Deal Without an Economic Message, Democrats Will Never Close the Deal

Abortion and extremism have made the midterms a neck-and-neck race—but the party is still missing an economic message.

Oct 21, 2022 / Jeet Heer for The Nation

Ilana Cohen

A Brower Youth Award Winner Outlines a New Fossil Free Research Campaign A Brower Youth Award Winner Outlines a New Fossil Free Research Campaign

The 2022 Brower Award winner explains why the toxic influence of Big Oil money on climate change research is the next front in the battle against fossil fuel extraction.

Oct 21, 2022 / StudentNation / StudentNation and Ilana Cohen

Now-former Prime Minister Liz Truss is candidly pictured leaving 10 Downing Street.

Liz Truss or No Liz Truss, Things Are Bleaker in Britain Than Anyone Realizes Liz Truss or No Liz Truss, Things Are Bleaker in Britain Than Anyone Realizes

As jaws drop around the world over the resignation of the UK’s shortest-lived prime minister, life here is getting considerably worse by the day.

Oct 20, 2022 / Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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