Activism

O’Malley, Sanders and Clinton

MoveOn Members Are Voting on a Presidential Endorsement That Matters MoveOn Members Are Voting on a Presidential Endorsement That Matters

A key progressive group is voting this week on whether to back Clinton, Sanders, or O’Malley.

Jan 7, 2016 / John Nichols

Start Making Sense: Rahm Emanuel Must Go

Start Making Sense: Rahm Emanuel Must Go Start Making Sense: Rahm Emanuel Must Go

Rick Perlstein on the Chicago mayor; Adam Gopnik and Amy Wilentz on Charlie Hebdo; and Rebecca Solnit on climate change in the Himalayas.

Jan 7, 2016 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Asking for a Friend: Can I Steal From Chain Stores to Feed Myself?

Asking for a Friend: Can I Steal From Chain Stores to Feed Myself? Asking for a Friend: Can I Steal From Chain Stores to Feed Myself?

Liza discusses the morality of shoplifting when you’re hungry and how to talk to children about racism and police brutality.

Jan 7, 2016 / Asking for a Friend / Liza Featherstone

Illustration by Sho Watanabe

This Is What $15 an Hour Looks Like This Is What $15 an Hour Looks Like

In July, Emeryville, California, passed the highest city-wide minimum wage in the country. Here’s how workers’ lives changed—and didn’t.

Jan 7, 2016 / Cities Rising / Gabriel Thompson

Brazil MTST march

A Conversation With Guilherme Boulos, Leader of Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement A Conversation With Guilherme Boulos, Leader of Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement

“Brazil is now a machine that creates homelessness.”

Jan 5, 2016 / Andy Robinson

Brazil PT protest

Can Brazil’s Workers’ Party Survive? Can Brazil’s Workers’ Party Survive?

President Dilma Rousseff is facing an impeachment drive, a tanking economy—and grassroots party activists furious at her austerity policies and pro-corporate development strategy.

Jan 5, 2016 / Andy Robinson

Why Is the US Deporting Refugee Families?

Why Is the US Deporting Refugee Families? Why Is the US Deporting Refugee Families?

A dangerously speedy process is sending children and their parents back to danger in Central America.

Jan 4, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Haskell Wexler

Remembering Haskell Wexler, Genius Cinematographer and Committed Leftist Remembering Haskell Wexler, Genius Cinematographer and Committed Leftist

For more than six decades, Haskell Wexler spoke to the public through the movies he made.

Jan 4, 2016 / Stuart Klawans

Where to Invade Next

Michael Moore Has a Plan to Make America Great Again Michael Moore Has a Plan to Make America Great Again

A necessary antidote to buffoonery and cynicism.

Jan 4, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

Grief at the Heart of a Moral Movement Grief at the Heart of a Moral Movement

A personal meditation for 2016.

Jan 4, 2016 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

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