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Learning lessons from the Oklahoma walkouts

Teachers in Oklahoma won a $6,000 raise by standing strong, but their walkouts ended with dissension and confusion after union leaders retreated.
Review: Leela Yellesetty

Our own terrifying Gilead

The second season of The Handmaid's Tale airs today--and like the first one, it speaks to the horrors of life under Donald Trump.
Report: Katie Fustich

A strike against Ivy League arrogance

Supposedly liberal Columbia University is lining up with the Trump administration to deny its graduate workers a union contract.
Comment

The fight continues for the Black Pride 4

Support is continuing to build for four Black and queer protesters arrested at the Pride festival in Columbus for challenging racism.

Editorials

Will the Trump tower of corruption topple?

Trump's legal troubles are getting serious, but scandalmongering isn't the way to challenge the Trump regime, nor his far-right shock troops.
Comment: Claire Douglas

Trump's surprise accomplice on border troops

Why would a liberal Democratic governor support Trump's call for National Guard troops to protect the U.S.-Mexico border?
Report: Emmaline Bennett

A BDS victory at Barnard

Barnard College students voted in favor of a referendum calling for divestment from eight firms complicit in Israeli apartheid.
Report

We want Syracuse to Recognize Us

Bigoted videos from Syracuse University's Theta Tau chapter are sparking protests and demands for broader change at the school.

Report

NYPD answer to a mental health crisis: Shoot

At Saheed Vassell's funeral on April 20, hundreds mourned his death at the hands of police and vowed to continue the fight for justice.
Comment

What road will lead Kentucky teachers forward?

Teachers sent a loud and proud message at Capitol protests, but there are questions to answer about the shape of future organizing.
Report: Ian Turner

Another walkout by Baystate nurses

Staffing is a major issue at Baystate Franklin Medical Center, where the Massachusetts Nurses Association held a one-day strike.
Comment: James Plested

The economics of their waste

Recycling programs around the world are on the brink of collapse, and the reason is both simple and absurd: They're not profitable.

Interview: Laia G. Facet

A feminist outpouring shakes the Spanish state

The massive protests in the Spanish state on International Women's Day were historic in more ways than one. Here's the background.
Comment: Sumaya A. and Bill Mullen

Countering the Canary Mission blacklist

The new website Against Canary Mission is dedicated to opposing a malicious attempt to smear and blacklist opponents of Israel.

Comment: Elizabeth Schulte

The myth of the "#MeToo panic"

The #MeToo campaign has been accused of ignoring "due process"--but has due process existed at all for women who have faced sexual assault?
Report: Karl Schwartz

Why is a sanctuary city profiting off detentions?

Activists challenged an Essex County Democrat who claims to support immigrants over his backing for an ICE detention center.
Comment: Robin Chadwell

Will Vermont's new gun laws help?

The three new gun-control measures passed into law in Vermont are a departure for the state--but we should take a closer look.
Report: Jonathan Cunningham

Colorado teachers descend on the capital

Hundreds of educators walked out of schools and rallied in Denver to protests devastating cuts to the public employees pension fund.
Comment: M. Czinner

Repression and resistance in a Bedouin village

The inhabitants of Umm al-Khair are fighting displacement in the face of violence from the Israeli state and Zionist settlers.

Comment: Darrin Hoop

Who's afraid of the Arizona teachers?

School "walk-ins" across Arizona are the latest actions of a movement that has won concessions from the governor--but teachers say they aren't done.

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