Race and Ethnicity

Students protest low wages.

3 Steps for Progressive Resistance and Rebuilding as the Trump Era Launches 3 Steps for Progressive Resistance and Rebuilding as the Trump Era Launches

Ultimately, the party’s fortunes will depend on recruiting a new generation of progressive leaders who can harness the power of social movements and drive it into electoral politic...

Jan 3, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Jack Johnson

Why Jack Johnson’s Family Should Refuse Any Exoneration Why Jack Johnson’s Family Should Refuse Any Exoneration

Jack Johnson is too important a historical figure to be used as a prop by right-wing politicians.

Jan 2, 2017 / Dave Zirin

WH Women and Girls

How to Fight for Women and Girls of Color While Trump Is President How to Fight for Women and Girls of Color While Trump Is President

Under Obama, the White House began collecting critically important data about women and girls of color. Under Trump, that data will become even more important.

Dec 22, 2016 / Dani McClain

Newspaper in Hyderabad

Why Trump’s Hotels Will Doom Us All Why Trump’s Hotels Will Doom Us All

Who’d have thought it’d be a bad idea to elect a president with business interests pretty much everywhere in the world? 

Dec 22, 2016 / Tom Engelhardt

Bob Stoops

Bob Stoops and the Geyser Cesspool of College Football Bob Stoops and the Geyser Cesspool of College Football

The 2014 video of Oklahoma University player Joe Mixon breaking the jaw of a female student is exposing, yet again, the rot of college football.

Dec 22, 2016 / Dave Zirin

POC Trump protest

Here’s an Organizing Strategy to Revive the Democratic Party That Doesn’t Depend on White Voters Here’s an Organizing Strategy to Revive the Democratic Party That Doesn’t Depend on White Voters

Many Democrats assume it’s impossible to get more people of color to vote. That’s just not true.

Dec 22, 2016 / Steve Phillips

Mississippi Prison Riot

Obama’s DOJ Says It One More Time: Private Prisons Aren’t Working Obama’s DOJ Says It One More Time: Private Prisons Aren’t Working

Another audit is perhaps the final piece of official evidence countering Donald Trump’s belief in for-profit incarceration.

Dec 21, 2016 / Seth Freed Wessler

Winter at Standing Rock

Want to Know How to Build a Progressive Movement Under Trump? Look to Standing Rock Want to Know How to Build a Progressive Movement Under Trump? Look to Standing Rock

Fighting against white supremacy and neoliberalism takes organizing—and lots of it.

Dec 20, 2016 / Audrea Lim

Minnesota Football Boycott

The ‘Brutal Solidarity’ of the Minnesota Gophers The ‘Brutal Solidarity’ of the Minnesota Gophers

The team called off its Holiday Bowl boycott, but the rally to defend 10 teammates accused of sexual assault has left a stench on campus and beyond.

Dec 19, 2016 / Dave Zirin

NC special session

North Carolina’s Legislative Coup Shows What Voter Suppression Will Look Like Under Trump North Carolina’s Legislative Coup Shows What Voter Suppression Will Look Like Under Trump

Republicans have turned North Carolina into a laboratory for subverting democracy.

Dec 19, 2016 / Ari Berman

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