Social Justice

AOC Green New Deal

How Black Lives Matter to the Green New Deal How Black Lives Matter to the Green New Deal

Ocasio-Cortez makes the case for racial justice and reparations.

Mar 14, 2019 / Aaron Ross Coleman

Bail Out

The TV Series Derailing Bail Reform in New Orleans The TV Series Derailing Bail Reform in New Orleans

The tough-on-crime spin is undercutting the hard work of activists and criminal justice experts in the city.

Mar 14, 2019 / Emmeline Clein

Yanis Varoufakis

A European Spring Is Possible A European Spring Is Possible

The DiEM25 proposes immediate financial changes to end austerity and fund a green—and hopefully post-capitalist—future.

Mar 13, 2019 / Yanis Varoufakis

VIDEO: Inside the Decades-Long Republican Campaign to Suppress the Vote

VIDEO: Inside the Decades-Long Republican Campaign to Suppress the Vote VIDEO: Inside the Decades-Long Republican Campaign to Suppress the Vote

A new film tracks the partisan campaign to make it harder and more dangerous to vote.

Mar 11, 2019 / Timothy Smith

Glut cooperative in Maryland

What if Workers Owned Their Workplaces? What if Workers Owned Their Workplaces?

The cooperative movement is showing that worker-owned businesses can not only survive, but thrive.

Mar 8, 2019 / Michelle Chen

Mike Oliver

In Memoriam: Mike Oliver In Memoriam: Mike Oliver

The British sociologist revolutionized the field of disability studies. 

Mar 8, 2019 / Ravi Malhotra

Russian women demonstrators

Russian Women Against Militarism: Act II Russian Women Against Militarism: Act II

Feminists are once again on the front lines of a generations-old struggle for peace.  

Mar 8, 2019 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina

Exclusive: ICE Has Kept Tabs on ‘Anti-Trump’ Protesters in New York City

Exclusive: ICE Has Kept Tabs on ‘Anti-Trump’ Protesters in New York City Exclusive: ICE Has Kept Tabs on ‘Anti-Trump’ Protesters in New York City

Documents reveal that the immigration enforcement agency has been keenly attuned to left-leaning protests in the city. 

Mar 6, 2019 / Jimmy Tobias

Ilhan Omar

The Democratic Party Attacks on Ilhan Omar Are a Travesty The Democratic Party Attacks on Ilhan Omar Are a Travesty

I’m Jewish and have worked against anti-Semitism for decades. I was sitting a few feet from Omar at Busboys & Poets and I heard nothing—nothing—that smacked of anti-Semitism, o...

Mar 5, 2019 / Phyllis Bennis

Mariah Parker, new Athens, GA county commissioner

Mariah Parker Invites You to Be Your Complete, Weird, Messy Self Mariah Parker Invites You to Be Your Complete, Weird, Messy Self

The 27-year-old Athens, Georgia, county commissioner leans into her humanity as she fights for social justice.

Mar 1, 2019 / Aaron Ross Coleman

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