How to Defeat the Far-Right: Lessons From the French Left
The results of a second round of elections in France on Sunday yielded a shocking win for the New Popular Front (NFP), a coalition of left-wing parties that had joined to beat the surging far-right,...
View ArticleProtecting Workers in a Warming Climate
As extreme heat envelopes large swaths of the western United States this summer—in line with predictions that climate scientists have been making for years—workers are facing deadly risks. The...
View Article“Political Violence” From the RNC to Gaza
Among the themes at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was “Make America Safe Once Again,” an apparent reference to “supporting law enforcement, border security and battling human...
View ArticleUnderstanding Project 2025’s Threat to Democracy
In recent days there has been intense public curiosity over Project 2025, a 922-page document published by the right-wing Heritage Foundation that outlines a plan to essentially remake the federal...
View ArticleWhat Kamala Harris’ Candidacy Means
After weeks of internal and external pressure, on Sunday President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, for the Democratic Party...
View ArticlePrevention, Not Prisons
While politicians like to say they’re “tough on crime,” especially during election years, they tend to not focus on corporate crimes, white-collar crimes, and those committed by the wealthy and...
View ArticleWhy Gen Z Loves “The Parable of the Sower”
When the great sci-fi writer Octavia Butler wrote her seminal book, Parable of the Sower, in 1993, she imagined 15-year-old protagonist Lauren Olamina starting her Earthseed journal on July 20, 2024....
View ArticleSonya Massey Should Still Be Alive, Say Activists
Activists across the United States held vigils on Sunday, July 28, as part of a national day of mourning for Sonya Massey, a Black woman recently killed by a white sheriff’s deputy near Springfield,...
View ArticleYouth Take J.D. Vance to Task on Climate
Eight activists affiliated with the youth-led Sunrise Movement were arrested on July 29 in Washington, D.C., while protesting outside the offices of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance. The youth activists were...
View ArticleWhat Is (and Is Not) Political Violence?
In the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, politicians denounced the incident, calling it “political violence” and “un-American.” But the NDN Collective, an Indigenous...
View ArticleLessons from Ferguson, 10 Years Later
On Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed a Black teenager named Michael Brown in the middle of the street. His body lay where it fell for four hours in the hot...
View ArticleSetting a Black Economic Agenda
The Black to the Future Action Fund released a report called “The Black Economic Agenda” on August 8, offering a set of key economic priorities for Black communities across the United States. The fund...
View ArticleUSDA Will Compensate Black Farmers for Discrimination
The United States Department of Agriculture will pay a historic $2.2 billion to Black farmers as compensation for decades of discrimination in lending. The National Black Farmers Association helped...
View ArticleTorture Inside a Secret Israeli Concentration Camp
Israel’s Channel 12 recently broadcast disturbing footage from Sde Teiman, a secret Israeli detention center that many have likened to a concentration camp, where prisoners are being tortured. Israel...
View ArticleInstead of Ending Taxes on Tips, Pay a Living Wage
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has offered up an idea for tips to be exempted from taxes. Trump claimed he thought of it after an interaction with a Las Vegas server. Now his opponent...
View ArticleRewriting Fantasy Tropes on Race and Economy
Jordan Ifueko was only 13 when she wrote her debut novel, Raybearer, an Afrofantasy for young readers. When the book was finally published, it ended up on The New York Times best sellers list and is...
View ArticleWhat’s Next for Bangladesh’s Student-Led Revolution?
Nobel Peace Prize–winning economist Muhammad Yunus is Bangladesh’s new interim prime minister. Yunus stepped into the role after the South Asian nation experienced a major student-led revolution that...
View Articleadrienne maree brown’s “Loving Corrections” to Build Collective Power
Organizing for progress has always been challenging, and more so in the face of surging fascism, authoritarianism, and white supremacy. What if there was a guidebook on how to sustain social movements...
View ArticleDisrupting the DNC for Palestine
The 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) was a joyous occasion, inspiring Democrats in Chicago and all over the country with a newly energized presidential ticket featuring Vice President Kamala...
View ArticleVoters Behind Bars
While the 2024 Republican presidential nominee has been convicted of dozens of felonies, millions of Americans caught in the criminal justice system—disproportionately people of color—will be unable...
View ArticleWorkers Challenge Mega Grocery Merger
A federal judge is deciding whether or not to approve the biggest grocery corporate merger in U.S. history. The Kroger and Albertsons chains say they want to merge in order to better compete with...
View ArticleCan the Next President Solve the Housing Crisis?
Access to housing has become a major election issue this year. Home prices are up a whopping 60% over the past decade, even after accounting for inflation. Additionally, millions of renters spend...
View ArticleMeet the Librarian Battling Book Bans
Conservative groups around the country have been increasingly bold in banning books that they do not like within libraries and schools. Often those pushing book bans claim they are protecting children...
View ArticleYES! Magazine Explores “The Truth Above All Else”
The Fall 2024 issue of YES! Magazine has been hitting newsstands and landing in mailboxes around the country. It is the final pre-election issue before this November’s presidential race, aptly themed...
View ArticleProgress 2025: A Vision for LGBTQ Rights
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. It aims...
View ArticleA Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 offers a vision of health care that decimates federal government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid through privatization and defunding. As part of YES!...
View ArticleDoes a Forest Have Rights? In Ecuador, It Does.
In 2008, Ecuador became the first nation in the world to vote on a new constitution that centers the rights of nature and of natural systems to “exist, flourish, and evolve.” That document has helped...
View ArticleA Progress 2025 Vision for Immigration
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance admitted on national television that he spread false rumors about Haitian immigrants consuming people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio. In an interview on...
View ArticleProgress 2025: A Vision for Economic Justice
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 offers an extremist vision for what a future conservative presidential administration should do in office. On the economy in particular, Project 2025 promotes...
View ArticleTrump’s Fake Electors Eye 2024 Election Theft
Donald Trump and his campaign have promised that if he loses the presidential race this November, it means the election was stolen. It is as strong a hint as he can make that he intends to steal the...
View ArticleA Liberatory Vision for Reproductive Justice
Former president Donald Trump recently promised women voters that if he is reelected, they won’t “be thinking about abortion” because they “will be protected.” He added, “I will be your protector.”...
View ArticleProgress 2025: Protecting Voting Rights and Democracy
For years, Donald Trump and the GOP have made wild, unsubstantiated claims about widespread voter fraud as cover for stripping people of their voting rights and engaging in voter intimidation. From...
View ArticleEnding “Death by Incarceration”
In early October, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear arguments in an important case that could have national implications. The case seeks to end mandatory sentences of life in prison without...
View ArticleA Progress 2025 Vision of Self-Determination
Project 2025, created by the extremist right-wing Heritage Foundation, takes a colonialist position on U.S. influence at home and abroad. Its authors argue that too much public land is not being used...
View ArticleAn Abolitionist Response to Project 2025
Project 2025, created by the extremist right-wing Heritage Foundation, fortifies the racist impact of policing by empowering the Department of Justice to focus on violent crime, despite the fact that...
View ArticleHere’s How to Respond to Crime, Not React to It
For years, the state of California has struggled with overcrowded jails and prisons. From the three-strikes law to life sentences without parole, California is “one of the epicenters of mass...
View ArticleDr. Ibram X Kendi’s Progress 2025 Vision for Education
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 takes aim at the United States educational system by targeting public education and students of color, LGBTQ students, and low-income students. The project’s...
View ArticleA Progress 2025 Vision for Climate Justice
As communities in the United States Southeast reel from the devastation of Hurricane Helene and as Florida braces for the potentially catastrophic Hurricane Milton, the impacts of climate change are...
View ArticleMutual Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene has wrought untold devastation across several Southeastern states, and is the deadliest to have hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. So far more than 200 people are...
View ArticleThe Contentious Role of Third-Party Candidates
Just weeks before the United States presidential election on Nov. 5, 2024, all eyes are on a handful of swing states where the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris remains tight. In those...
View ArticleIsraeli Journalist Decries Gaza Genocide
It’s been more than a year since the start of Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza that has left more than 40,000 dead, including 17,000 children. Israel has since expanded the war to Lebanon and is...
View ArticleCan Massive Election Turnout Save Democracy?
Polls around the nation show Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in a dead heat in several decision-making swing states ahead of the presidential election on Nov. 5. With enormous amounts of...
View ArticleShould Voters Pick Judges?
When some voters consider their ballot for the Nov. 5 presidential election, they will see down-ballot judicial elections—but only in a handful of states and localities. Local judges are elected in...
View ArticleUndoing What Wall Street Did to the Housing Market
With just weeks remaining before the Nov. 5 election, Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are crisscrossing the country with campaign stops and speeches to make their final appeals to...
View ArticleInside Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump held a rally this weekend at Madison Square Garden in New York City, which The New York Times described as “A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and...
View ArticleStorm-Ravaged North Carolina Rallies Voters
With just days left before the presidential election on Nov. 5, all eyes are on a handful of so-called swing states—a direct outcome of the United States’ electoral college system. Party nominees are...
View ArticleWill California End Forced Prison Labor?
There are two initiatives on California’s ballot this November dealing with the prison-industrial complex: Proposition 36 would worsen penalties for petty crimes, increasing the prison population and...
View ArticlePost-Election Organizing to End the Gaza Genocide
The genocide in Gaza has been front and center in the United States’ political landscape since October 2023. Leading up to the 2024 general election, a movement of “uncommitted” voters vowed to use...
View ArticleAfter the Election: Combatting Attacks on Immigrants
Ahead of polls opening in the United States general election on Nov. 5, 2024, Republican Donald Trump made his final pitch to voters and continued to demonize immigrants in order to mobilize support....
View ArticleWomen’s Rights and Feminism in the 2024 Election
Days before the 2024 general election, Republican nominee Donald Trump vowed to “protect women … whether they like it or not.” In large part the election was about women—their rights, their ability to...
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