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...
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