Social Justice

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

The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation

The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation

With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.

Aug 29, 2025 / Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano

An image from the 1971 film “Chicano Moratorium: A Question of Freedom.”

Why the Chicano Moratorium Still Matters Why the Chicano Moratorium Still Matters

55 years ago, young Chicano activists took to the streets to proclaim, “our fight is in the barrio, not Vietnam.” Their protest still resonates to this day.

Aug 29, 2025 / Bill Gallegos

The 10 Commandments of Defiance were inspired by a similar list created by 17-year-old Arne Sejr during World War II to encourage everyday Danish resistance to Nazi occupiers.

A Guide to the Everyday Acts That Can Gum Up the Fascist Machine A Guide to the Everyday Acts That Can Gum Up the Fascist Machine

Inspired by a Danish anti-Nazi list of 10 commandments, a group of artists and organizers made their own list to encourage ordinary people to resist the Trump administration.

Aug 27, 2025 / Regina Mahone

Kilmar Ábrego García and his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, stand surrounded by a crowd of supporters.

The Bravery of Kilmar Ábrego García vs. the Barbarism of Donald Trump The Bravery of Kilmar Ábrego García vs. the Barbarism of Donald Trump

The husband, father, and union worker from Maryland is risking indefinite incarceration in Uganda to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves.

Aug 25, 2025 / Dave Zirin

US cofounder and the former president of the Amazon Labor Union Chris Smalls (C) addresses a press conference on the Freedom Flotilla ship “Handala” ahead of the boat's departure for Gaza at a port in Syracuse, Sicily, southern Italy, on July 13, 2025.

Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza

In an interview, the union organizer talks about joining the Freedom Flotilla, confronting Israeli forces, and solidarity between Palestine and the US labor movement.

Aug 15, 2025 / Ella Fanger

Anne Lamott and the Power of Hope

Anne Lamott and the Power of Hope Anne Lamott and the Power of Hope

‘I will not let them defeat me.’

Aug 13, 2025 / Q&A / Pamela Alma Weymouth

A group of resistance fighters at Lemvig Church. One of them has a Madsen machine gun over his shoulder.

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism...

Aug 5, 2025 / Sarah Sophie Flicker

Roberto Clemente poses for a photo in his Pittsburgh Pirates uniform, outside on a baseball diamond.

What Would Roberto Clemente Do? What Would Roberto Clemente Do?

The right fielder would want the baseball players’ union to fight the Trump administration’s campaign of terror against immigrants and their families.

Aug 4, 2025 / Dave Zirin

Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he departs a House Republican meeting at the US Capitol on May 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. Trump joined conservative House lawmakers to help push through their budget bill after it advanced through the House Budget Committee on Sunday evening.

How the Constant Noise Distracts From the True Peril of Trump’s Misrule How the Constant Noise Distracts From the True Peril of Trump’s Misrule

His policies are making Americans less safe, less healthy, and more dead.

Aug 4, 2025 / Robert L. Borosage

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