Birmingham’s Fight For a Living Wage
A leading organizer describes how low-wage workers and faith-based allies are fighting to raise their city’s minimum wage—even as state legislators try to stop them.
Fall 2025
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Modern Family
It is no accident that our age of hyper-capitalism is also one of aggressive “family values,” pursued in popular culture and legislation alike.
Stuck in Sanctuary: A Philadelphia Family Resists Deportation
With the Trump administration continuing to step up raids and deportations nationwide, providing real sanctuary is as vital as it is challenging. One immigrant’s story.
Artistic Differences
“He Will Not Divide Us” posited that we could all get along—but instead became a petri dish of American division.
Strike to Win: Can Polish Feminists Turn Protest Into Power?
The women’s movement in Poland and its largest manifestation, Manifa, represent a challenge to the right-wing government—but can they win power?
Working Too Hard for Too Little: An Interview with Senator Sherrod Brown
“True populism is looking out for the little guy no matter where she works and no matter who he is; we’ve let them steal that away.”
Against Moral Austerity: On the Need for a Christian Left
Secular and religious progressives should work together to reach beyond blue strongholds and forcefully show that moral concerns are not limited to the religious right.
Standing With Immigrants in Nebraska
Nebraska has not voted for a Democratic presidential nominee in more than half a century. But in recent years, it has nonetheless seen the flowering of a pro-immigrant political culture.
Bringing Power to the People: The Unlikely Case for Utility Populism
Some 42 million Americans get their power from rural electric cooperatives. Reforming them could bring energy democracy to the Heartland—and fight climate change in the process.
Mississippi Autoworkers Mobilize
A standoff in the deep South between a black working-class community and a global auto giant reflects a broader anti-Trump resistance emerging in the labor movement.
It Gets Wetter
Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 refuses the typical binary of climate change fiction, offering hope for a future somewhere in between victory or ruin.
The Next Operation Dixie
Three labor organizers talk about their work combating racism and fighting for workers’ rights in the South.
Age of Anger
How the left builds on mass ire towards the ruling right will determine whether that emotion dissipates or grows into an articulate vision and a determined approach to achieving it.
A People’s Mayor
On June 6, Chokwe Antar Lumumba won 93 percent of the vote to become mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, a city that is 80 percent black, with 31 percent of its population living in poverty, is the capital of a …
Left in the Middle
Amid the failures of the Trump administration, the good news is that a left does exist in Red America—and is growing.
Introducing the special section of our Summer issue.
