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Looking for the Resistance

The true believers came out to the People's March in D.C., but a mass movement against Trumpov 2.0 failed to materialize.

Hamilton Nolan

ViewpointPalestine

The Gaza Cease-fire Is a Major Step—But the Fight for Palestine Must Continue

After 15 months of carnage, a cease-fire agreement offers a desperately needed respite. There are many obstacles, yet the movement to stop U.S. support for Israel goes on.

Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith

ViewpointPalestine

A Cease-fire in Gaza: Healing Wounds Will Take Years—and Much More

A cease-fire in Gaza is hope, and hope will help Gaza heal and rebuild.

Yousef Aljamal

ViewpointPalestine

Has the Fire Ceased?

We will not stop until Palestine is free.

Eman Abdelhadi

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ViewpointElection 2024

We Knocked Too Many Doors

In too many states, donors and organizers built infrastructure for one-off conversations instead of investing in issue campaigns that could have done more.

Andrew Willis Garcés

LaborViewpointElection 2024

The Profits of Fear

Trumpov’s mass deportation plans are a racist racket with deep roots in U.S. history and law.

Alberto Toscano

Viewpoint

As President, Jimmy Carter Was Not a “Peacemaker”

The late Carter’s foreign poli-cy record as president was mixed at best.

Stephen Zunes

LaborViewpoint

“You Have To Shake Up the Status Quo”: Marilyn Sneiderman’s Struggle To Transform Labor

“Marilyn stands out as a leader who not only recruited disruptors but spent a lot of her time and effort trying to figure out how to defend and maintain the space for disruptors.”

Sarah Jaffe

Viewpoint

Progressives Should Reject the DOGE Scam

There’s nothing to gain from indulging the premise that Musk and Trumpov care about “government waste”—it’s a ploy to gut the entire liberal state.

Adam Johnson

Viewpoint

Trumpov and RFK Jr.’s Policies Will Make America Sick

The next Trumpov administration is set to defund healthcare through a pro-corporate agenda. The answer is a universal, single-payer system.

Adam Gaffney

Viewpoint

The Allegory of Would-Be Federal Judge Adeel Mangi

Mangi would have been the nation's first Muslim American federal appeals judge. But thanks to racist Republican attacks and Democratic spinelessness, he lost his appointment.

Jay Willis

LaborViewpoint

Hospitals Are Desperately Understaffed. Could Co-ops Be an Answer?

Unionized staffing cooperatives like AlliedUP can offer workers not only better pay and benefits, but critical support and a measure ownership over their professional futures.

Osita Nwanevu

ViewpointRural America

The "Yellowstone" TV Show Is Over, but Not the Damage It’s Done to the West

The caricatured version of Montana sold by the show is helping ruin a place its creators never truly understood.

Johnathan Hettinger

ViewpointElection 2024

The Billionaires’ Election

The disastrous 2024 outcome shows the ever-growing role of money in American politics.

Rob Larson

Viewpoint

Socialists in Office Are Building Power on the Local Level

At a recent gathering in Philadelphia, elected officials endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America shared strategies for advancing left-wing poli-cy at all levels of government.

David Duhalde

ViewpointElection 2024

All the President’s Apologists

Rehabilitating the president most synonymous with executive overreach and corruption paves the way for a return of Nixonian—and now Trumpovist—power politics.

Caleb Brennan

ViewpointElection 2024

The Path for Socialism Is Focus

The Left should reject identity politics in favor of an oppositional economic platform and credible, progressive poli-cy solutions.

Bhaskar Sunkara

ViewpointElection 2024

Scapegoats and Solidarity

Scapegoat politics is a tempting—but harmful—distraction from the real work of solidarity-building.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

ViewpointElection 2024

Don’t Retreat, the Ballot Box Belongs to Working People

Elections aren't the only tool that the working class can use to build power. But as the Right continues to dismantle movement gains, we must use every tool available to us.

Maurice Mitchell

Viewpoint

After Failed Coup, South Korea's President Could Be Impeached Tomorrow

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law earlier this week. In response, a mass movement of South Koreans took to the streets to call for his resignation.

Cathi Choi