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Organizing Beat Out Democratic Conventional Wisdom

Democrats’ sweeping victory in the midterms showed why the old playbook should be thrown out of the window—and that the Left is on the march.

Hamilton Nolan

The Crest of a New Wave

The incoming class of left-wing insurgents can hold sway in the next Congress—if they work as a bloc.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Against Efficiency

Making numbers go up isn’t compatible with human freedom. It’s time to flip the tables in how we determine progress.

Hamilton Nolan

ViewpointPolitics

Hispanic Voters Are Dissatisfied. What Will It Mean for the Midterms?

The question heading into the midterms is not whether Trump has lost support among Hispanic Americans—it is what dissatisfied Hispanic voters will do with that dissatisfaction.

Diana Orcés

CARTOONISTS "PAY HOMAGE" TO TRUMP

An Homage to Chicago’s the Orphanage and Other Comics

Bianca Xunise, Tom Tomorrow, Brian McFadden and Jen Sorensen

Did We Really Vote a Poop-Flinging Baboon Into the Highest Political Office?

Columnists

Trump’s Latest Target: Coal Miners’ Safety Kim Kelly

Zohran Mamdani, Black Voters and the Left Asha Ransby-Sporn

The Three True Pillars Of American Democracy Hamilton Nolan

Here's What We Know Eman Abdelhadi

Tenant Organizer Will Lawrence Is Taking on the GOP in a Deep Purple District

To flip a key Michigan seat, the insurgent candidate is campaigning on housing, healthcare and opposition to data centers.

Rebecca Burns

CONTEXT ON TRUMP'S ILLEGAL WAR ON IRAN

Dick Cheney: A Profile in Impunity

The life of Cheney which brought so many to await his death.

Alberto Toscano

Global Trade at Gunpoint

Trump is setting up a protection racket to expand corporate power around the world

Sarah Lazare

ViewpointFeature

As Workers Struggle, Our Political Class Goes All In On a Permanent War State

From blood banks to food insecurity, a snapshot of a country whose raison d'etre is increasingly open sadism and violence

The U.S.-Iran War Is Illegal. Here’s Why That Matters.

If this war continues without accountability, it threatens even more dire consequences in years ahead.

Women Pay the Highest Price for U.S. ‘Wars of Liberation’

As an Iraqi, I’ve spent my life fleeing, surviving, and bearing witness to wars justified by lies. In Iran, we’re seeing yet another.

ICE OUT!

ICE Is Conducting a Reign of Terror

ICE’s indiscriminate violence conveys that nonwhite immigrants, lawful or otherwise, have no place in Trump’s America.

Mitchell Zimmerman

Worker Organizer Abducted By Federal Agents in Minnesota

ICE-Cold Cash: Members of Congress Took More than $1.7 Million from ICE Contractors

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg and Ethan Corey

In the Fight Against ICE, Kids Are on the Front Lines

Madeline Lane-McKinley

INVESTIGATIONS WITH IMPACT

Eviction By ICE?

Federal immigration agents appear to have targeted Chicago tenants in “deliberate and systematic ways.” They’re still searching for answers about their landlord’s role in the raid.

Rebecca Burns

THE WAR ON PROTEST

The War on Protest Is Here

Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action.

Adam Federman

The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders

Around the world, government forces regularly attack environmental activists with impunity—and U.S. support.

Alessandra Bergamin

More investigations

FeatureInvestigation

As Corporate Landlords Spread, a Mold Epidemic Takes Root

Thomas Birmingham

Photo of a person holding a staple gun, stapling Narcan nasal spray boxes to a tree.

As Fentanyl Overdoses Soar, LA City Crews Toss State-Funded Narcan from Encampments

LaborPalestineInvestigation

U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of Anti-Zionists

Featuring our latest issue:

The Urgency of Anti-Fascist Economics

In a new book, a dissident economist argues that to save democracy, we must democratize the economy.

Rebecca Burns

A Politics of Denial

As France erupts with protests and the U.S. midterm elections near, a declining West is answering its crisis with denial, repression and war.

Glenn Diesen and Richard D. Wolff

Against Efficiency

Making numbers go up isn’t compatible with human freedom. It’s time to flip the tables in how we determine progress.

PALESTINE

"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer

A poem written before the author's death in an airstrike by the Israeli military.

Refaat Alareer

Release Mahmoud Khalil

My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner

A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Mahmoud Khalil

Why U.S. Labor Has a "Special Responsibility" to Stop Israel's Attacks on Lebanon

PalestineDispatch

Gaza’s Nightmare

Palestinian Youth Movement Vows to Make Genocide Support Too Costly for Maersk

Translations

Back of a man's head, "No Evictions" sign

La Iniciativa de Chicago para Leyes de Desalojos por “Causa Justa”

Dos Sindicatos de Inquilinos, Una Huelga de Renta

FeaturePalestine

التحولات التي شهدها مجتمع المسلمين في الولايات المتحدة بعد 20 عامًا من التاسع من أيلول وكيفية تجليها بعد السابع من تشرين الأول

إيمان عبد الهادي

Working In These Times

It’s Time for Labor to Join the Fight Against Data Centers and Tech Oligarchy

There’s no room for dithering—the U.S. labor movement has to choose now whether to be on the right side of history.

Dockworkers Worldwide Are Striking for Palestine

The second International Day of Action of Dockworkers, in solidarity with Palestine and against militarism, begins.

UFCW Members Protect Local Election After Sham Merger Attempt

Longtime incumbents in UFCW's Local 8-Golden State are being challenged by an insurgent slate in what may be the local’s first competitive election in decades.