decade in review
This F#$%ing Decade
For years, media and political elites refused to acknowledge the growing racism and radicalism of the Republican party. Their “both-sidesism” led to Trump’s GOP takeover.
Joan WalshThis Was the Decade of Feminist Uprisings in Latin America
The “green wave” emerged in response to staggering rates of femicide, and then began mounting challenges to the highly restrictive abortion laws in the region.
Zoë CarpenterA Decade That Changed the Nation
A look back on the stories that shaped the past 10 years, and helped inform the fight for a more radical and equitable future.
Katrina vanden Heuvel and D.D. Guttenplan2019
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December 3, 2019
The Politics of Abortion Is Entering a New Era
The Supreme Court won’t protect abortion access anymore. But thousands of activists will.
Emily Douglas -
March 26, 2019
What I Saw at the Dilley, Texas, Immigrant Detention Center
The stories I heard from the women and children trapped in Trump’s willfully cruel immigration system will stay with me forever.
Martin Garbus -
February 12, 2019
What Ilhan Omar Said About AIPAC Was Right
I’m ashamed to admit that endorsing AIPAC positions was all about the Benjamins for me and my candidate.
Ady Barkan -
January 24, 2019
Black Children Don’t Have Nick Sandmann’s Rights
And they definitely don’t get the chance to redeem themselves on national TV with the help of Savannah Guthrie.
Elie Mystal
2018
It Has Been 210 Days Since Amanda Morales Last Saw the Sun
For the undocumented mother of three, taking sanctuary in a church seemed the best way to keep her family together.
Cinthya Santos Briones, Laura Gottesdiener and Malav KanugaThe last time Amanda Morales walked outside—breathed the air, observed the sky, felt the pavement beneath her feet—it was summer: August 17, 2017, to be exact. The day was sparkling, the temperature hovering in the low 80s, and if Amanda’s life hadn’t been upended a few weeks earlier by a… Continue Reading >
2017
Black Life and Death in the Age of Obama
His presidency saw new opportunities for black Americans—as well as the resurgence of white supremacy.
Kai Wright
Can Black Lives Matter Win in the Age of Trump?
You could be forgiven for thinking the movement has gone quiet. But you’d be wrong.
Dani McClainspecial investigation
Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields?
Young farm workers are falling ill from “green tobacco sickness” while the industry denies it and government lets it happen.
Gabriel ThompsonThis article was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute. The air was heavy and humid on the morning the three Cuello sisters joined their mother in the tobacco fields. The girls were dressed in jeans and long-sleeve shirts, carried burritos wrapped in aluminum foil, and… Continue Reading >
reporting out the movements
The Audacity of Occupy Wall Street
The protesters have put their faith in the last seemingly credible force in the world: each other.
Richard Kim
Since Trump’s Victory, Democratic Socialists of America Has Become a Budding Political Force
Why an army of young people is joining DSA.
Anna Heyward
Indivisible Is Working Hard to Live Up to Its Name
Activists mobilized by this grassroots group had one thing in common: They wanted to fight Trump. Can they agree on what comes next?
Joan Walsh2016
What Happened to Sandra Bland?
To answer that question, you must begin way before she died in a Texas jail.
Debbie Nathan2016
Did Republicans Rig the Election?
Voter suppression was all too real, and 14 states—including important swing states—had new voting restrictions in place.
Ari Berman2015
Librarians Versus the NSA
Your local library is on the front lines against government surveillance.
Zoë Carpenter
Loving the Puget Sound to Death
Four decades after the passage of the Clean Water Act, regulators haven’t kept up with the pollution pressure that growing populations put on America’s shorelines.
Madeline Ostrander
How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA
A new cybersecurity elite moves between government and private practice, taking state secrets with them.
Tim Shorrock2014
After #Ferguson
The protests that followed the police shooting of Michael Brown created a network of youth in revolt.
Steven Hsieh and Raven Rakia2014
The New Abolitionism
Averting planetary disaster will mean forcing fossil fuel companies to give up at least $10 trillion in wealth.
Chris Hayes2013
The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday
My life as a temp in California’s Inland Empire, the belly of the online shopping beast.
Gabriel Thompson
The call from the temp agency comes in late October. I’ve passed the drug test, cleared the background check, sat down for a quick interview—“Can you lift fifty-pound boxes?”—and completed a worksheet of basic math problems. Now there’s a job. A warehouse just outside the city of Ontario, about forty...
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The Making of the 99%
With the Occupy movement, what started as a diffuse protest against economic injustice became a vast experiment in class building.
Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich
Mitt Romney’s Bailout Bonanza
How Mitt and Ann made millions—and Mitt’s hedge fund donors made billions—from the auto-industry rescue that he condemned.
Greg Palast
hot takes
essay
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom. Like art. ——Toni Morrisson
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear
Toni Morrison