The Backlash Comes for Oakland’s Progressive Prosecutor The Backlash Comes for Oakland’s Progressive Prosecutor
Pamela Price, the Alameda County DA, is fighting a recall vote and to defend her unwavering refusal to over-criminalize young people.
Aug 30, 2024 / Piper French
Palestinians Will Speak Whether Democrats Want Them to or Not Palestinians Will Speak Whether Democrats Want Them to or Not
The party may have successfully prevented Palestinians from addressing the DNC. But it cannot hold back the tide forever.
Aug 29, 2024 / Y.L. Al-Sheikh
Roberts’s Rule of Disorder in Voting Rights Law Roberts’s Rule of Disorder in Voting Rights Law
On February 27, 2013, just a few hours after Solicitor General Donald Verrilli endeavored to protect the Voting Rights Act before the US Supreme Court, he dropped by his boss’s off…
Aug 29, 2024 / David Daley
Move Over Hollywood, Here Comes Chick-fil-A Move Over Hollywood, Here Comes Chick-fil-A
The fast-food giant is poised to move the entertainment world further to the right.
Aug 29, 2024 / Ben Schwartz
Why We Should Honor the Chicano Moratorium Against the War Why We Should Honor the Chicano Moratorium Against the War
On this date 54 years ago, the largest ethnically focussed action in the movement against the Vietnam War took place—offering an important example of the power of a people united....
Aug 29, 2024 / Bill Gallegos
The Recent Riots in the UK Should Be a Warning to Kamala Harris The Recent Riots in the UK Should Be a Warning to Kamala Harris
Like the Tories, the new Labour government wants to blame immigration for Britain’s current troubles, but these have less to do with immigration than with deprivation.
Aug 29, 2024 / Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Democrats Held the Most Pro-Union Convention in History. Now, They Must Take That Message on the Road. Democrats Held the Most Pro-Union Convention in History. Now, They Must Take That Message on the Road.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz should learn from what worked at the DNC and make organized labor a central focus of their fall campaigning.
Aug 29, 2024 / John Nichols
Biden Failed Us on Public Health. Harris Must Do Better. Biden Failed Us on Public Health. Harris Must Do Better.
These are some concrete steps a President Harris could take to undo the damage of her current boss.
Aug 29, 2024 / Gregg Gonsalves
Displaced From Sudan, Young Refugees Find Solace at School Displaced From Sudan, Young Refugees Find Solace at School
After fleeing war-torn nightmares, refugees in neighboring Egypt are finding a way to dream again.
Aug 29, 2024 / Photo Essay / Walaa Alshaer and Elle Kurancid
I Already Knew Kamala Harris. In Chicago, I Got to Meet Kaitlyn Joshua. I Already Knew Kamala Harris. In Chicago, I Got to Meet Kaitlyn Joshua.
As always, the DNC was an endurance grind. But my serendipitous encounter with a woman who embodies Harris’s reproductive justice agenda was the high point for me.
Aug 28, 2024 / Joan Walsh