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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

People attend a rally on August 28, 2025, at Pasadena Auto Wash, where six employees were detained in an immigration raid last weekend.

The Terror and Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Machine The Terror and Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Machine

The administration’s immigration policies have gone from awful to monstrous, culminating with this weekend’s move to send roughly 600 unaccompanied children back to Guatemala...

Sep 1, 2025 / Column / Sasha Abramsky

Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale, right, congratulates Sandy Koufax, left, in the dressing room after Koufax pitched the Dodgers to the National League Championship, hurling a 3-1 win over the Milwaukee Braves in the pennant-clinching game on October 2, 1965.

Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Belong in the Labor Movement Hall of Fame Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Belong in the Labor Movement Hall of Fame

In the mid-1960s, the two pitchers inspired major league ballplayers to build a union and challenge the owners’ stranglehold on their lives, pay, and working conditions.

Sep 1, 2025 / Peter Dreier

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

Profiles in Courage

Profiles in Courage Profiles in Courage

Hans and Franz.

Aug 29, 2025 / Steve Brodner

Organizations and individuals gathered outside the Supreme Court as it heard arguments for Rucho v. Common Cause, a landmark gerrymandering case.

How Democrats Flubbed the Gerrymandering Arms Race How Democrats Flubbed the Gerrymandering Arms Race

New York State is a case study in Democrats’ failure to understand the evolving political landscape.

Aug 29, 2025 / Elie Mystal

Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in the South Bronx in New York City on May 23, 2024.

Aligning With Trump’s Toxic Whiteness Will Never Keep You Safe Aligning With Trump’s Toxic Whiteness Will Never Keep You Safe

Many non-white communities increased their support for the president. He’s targeting them anyway.

Aug 29, 2025 / Kali Holloway

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

Rob Bonta, attorney general of California.

He’s Sued Trump 39 Times—and He Keeps Winning He’s Sued Trump 39 Times—and He Keeps Winning

Rob Bonta, California’s attorney general, is using the courts to rein in Trump and, for now, it’s mostly working.

Aug 29, 2025 / Column / Sasha Abramsky

People attend a vigil following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on August 27, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Minneapolis Murders Accelerated Our Sense of Powerlessness The Minneapolis Murders Accelerated Our Sense of Powerlessness

The shooting, which has so far left two children dead and 14 hospitalized, adds to the sense of terror that the Trump regime is spreading.

Aug 28, 2025 / Joan Walsh

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