Features
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Meet the Left Radical Who Will Likely Be Jackson, Mississippi's Next Mayor
If the Left can make it here, they can make it anywhere. MORE
By Kate Aronoff
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Mothers of the World, Unite!
A new Mother’s Day Proclamation. MORE
By Sady Doyle
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The Surprising Cross-Partisan Appeal of Single-Payer Healthcare
Where Trump voters and socialists agree. MORE
By Theo Anderson
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Why We Should Stop Using the Word "Activist"
Contesting power isn’t a hobby or a subculture—it’s a collective project pervading all facets of our lives. MORE
By Jonathan Matthew Smucker
Act Locally
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The Folk Singer vs. the Millionaire: A Berniecrat Aims for Montana's House Seat
Rob Quist’s House campaign draws on Montana’s populist spirit. MORE
By Joseph Bullington
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Turning Capital Against Capitalism
Experiments in funding an equitable economy. MORE
By Chris Merriam
Culture
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television
The Milquetoast Militants of Showtime's "Guerrilla"
The protagonists’ middle-class naiveté rolls off them in waves. MORE
By Eileen Jones
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books
When the Bankers Took Manhattan: Austerity's New York Roots
The new book Fear City documents the slide of New York City from vibrant social democracy to neoliberal abyss. MORE
By Moe Tkacik
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Take Two
The Return of Nunsploitation
Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours is a clever update on Boccaccio’s The Decameron. MORE
By Michael Atkinson
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Exit Signs
How the Threat of Apocalypse Justifies American Empire
A new book argues that in the military’s hands, warnings of world’s end become self-fulfilling prophecies. MORE
By Chris Lehmann
Columnists
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Back Talk
Another War, Another Blitzerkrieg
It’s time to question CNN’s decades of enthusiastic war coverage. MORE
By Susan J. Douglas
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Public Defender
War Profiteering Ain't Physics
Even Trump can’t buck the iron law of U.S. foreign policy: Follow the money. MORE
By Leonard C. Goodman
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From the Old Country
Jeremy Corbyn's Judgment Day
The June 8 election is critical for Labour’s future. MORE
By Jane Miller
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Views
The Entire Public Sector Is About to Be Put on Trial
The Right’s assault on public-sector workers is an assault on the public sector itself. MORE
By Naomi Walker
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Editorial
Don't Mine What's Ours
How a public-lands populism can fight Trump and the GOP. MORE
By Dayton Martindale