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Health Care Workers Sound Off About Solidarity and Why They’re Ready to Strike
“We are kind of at this breaking point. We're at this cusp,” says health care worker Hannah Winchester.
Rikers Island and the Shapeshifting Monster of Reform
“We’re talking about a hostage situation and the answer is to free the hostages,” says Kelly Hayes.
After Hurricane Ida, Louisianians Offer Bold Visions for Climate Resilience
Louisiana is already preparing for rising seas and intensifying storms, offering lessons for the rest of us.
From Burnout to Breakthroughs, Weary Organizers Can Come Back Stronger
How can we build our way back from pandemic exhaustion?
Trump Is Gone, But the US Is Still Putting Migrants Through Hell
It is the tyranny of normalcy that allows our government to perpetrate atrocities.
Laughing at Mass Death Brings Us Closer to Fascism
The recreational dehumanization of people who are dying of COVID-19 harms us all.
To Fight the GOP’s Radicalized Base, We Have to Push Left
The right’s culture war has an astronomical body count.
Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street, Another World Is Still Possible
Occupy helped us imagine a world beyond capitalism.
Attacks on Critical Race Theory Seek to Insert Fascist Politics Into Education
The conservative wrath against critical thinking is manufactured ignorance parading as “patriotic pedagogy.”
This Afghanistan Vet Became a War Resister and Anti-Racist Activist
Many would choose not to join the military if they could afford college and health care, says war resister Rory Fanning.