Pro-Choice Protesters Are Being Targeted With Red Scare Laws
Protesters are peacefully demonstrating outside the homes of Supreme Court justices who are about to overturn Roe v. Wade — and conservatives are demanding the government arrest them.
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Ron DeSantis’s Crusade Against “Wokeness” in Public Schools Isn’t Popular
Despite what major news outlets say, Florida governor Ron DeSantis's attack on public schools is not the driving force behind his popularity. His recent success can be chalked up to a GOP-led voter registration effort and record-breaking campaign funds.
In Chicago, Expect the Police to Make Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Life Very Difficult
When politicians threaten police power, police often take matters into their own hands, frequently causing social chaos by refusing to perform basic duties. That’s likely to occur in Chicago. In fact, it might be happening already.
Rustin the Liberal Biopic Versus Rustin the Labor Activist
Netflix’s new feel-good Bayard Rustin biopic, Rustin, claims the civil rights hero has been forgotten because of his sexuality. But it was his fiery and provocative class politics that makes him both controversial and prophetic today.
Mayoral Hopeful Flo Cofer Envisions a Democratic Sacramento
With an activist background and a left-wing perspective, Sacramento mayoral candidate Flo Cofer bears the markers of an outsider candidate. But backed by big unions, sitting councilmembers, and the city paper, she’s giving the Sac elite a run for their money.
Class Dealignment Is the Defining Political Challenge of Our Time
The evidence is overwhelming: workers are abandoning the Democrats and center-left parties around the world. Class dealignment is radically changing politics, and the Left needs a program to win the working class.
How the Culture Wars Are Undermining Public Education
The Right has deployed attacks on LGBTQ rights, the teaching of black history, and other topics to politicize and undermine public schools. The Left has an opportunity to mobilize a broad coalition to defend public education in response to this assault.
The Method in the Far Right’s Madness
Today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ. Historian Quinn Slobodian explains how these ideas can be fitted together.
Corporate Money Is Flooding NYC Council Elections
The last few years have seen corporate interests and pro-Israel groups teaming up to try to crush left-wing congressional candidates and challengers. Now that same strategy is rearing its head way down ballot: in the New York City Council elections.
Why We Counter-Protest
Ignoring the anti-abortion right has not made it go away.
University of Michigan Graduate Workers Are on Strike
University of Michigan graduate workers are on strike right now — not only for better protections against coronavirus, but also to defund the police.
How Richmond Steered Public Money Away From Police to Human Needs
Shifting police budgets to social programs was the key demand after the George Floyd protests. Progressives in Richmond, California, have actually done it. Two organizers explain how.
Nonpolice Public Safety Alternatives Work. Denver’s STAR Program Proves It.
Denver’s STAR program sends paramedics and behavioral health clinicians instead of police to respond to 911 calls related to mental health issues, homelessness, and substance abuse. It’s led to a 34 percent drop in crime in its operating districts since 2020.
State Legislatures Are Waging War on Public Schools
A new report ranks US states in terms of how well their legislatures are protecting public schools and the students who attend them. From expanding charters to launching illiberal attacks on kids and families, a worrying number of states failed the test.
The GOP Is Making Headway in Shutting Down Climate Groups
With Democrats’ help, Republicans have taken a big step toward giving Trump the power to wipe out enemy nonprofits — and they already have a blueprint for how to defund clean energy groups.
A Second Civil War
Like the abolitionists, Chris Hayes argues, climate activists must mount “a movement of dispossession.”
When Taking Power Isn’t Enough
Reformers took power in the British Columbia teachers union in the late '90s. Their tenure has much to teach US unionists.
Throwing Books at Bullets
Despite violence and intimidation, Colombia’s teachers have been a bulwark for workers’ rights.
Evict the Landlords
Evicted sharply details the injustices renters face. But the book's "solution" would end up enriching landlords.
A Game of Russian Roulette
Couching opposition to Trump in anti-Russia language will only end up benefiting the Right.