3+ hour, 3+ min ago  (391+ words) No nation has ever cast a shadow over the World Cup quite like the United States, the primary host of the 2026 games. While the United States is not Qatar or Russia on the authoritarianism scale, we are damn far from…...

1+ day, 11+ min ago  (922+ words) Amid disproportionate violence against transgender Americans, anti-transgender rhetoric endangers them further....

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (1081+ words) Laws across the country targeting transgender people are driving families to relocate. Mark and Jenny were living in Boise, Idaho, when their four-year-old daughter, Fiona, came out as transgender. When Fiona's teachers announced her new name and pronouns to the…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (558+ words) Illustration by Christopher Cruz As a queer ordained minister, I've seen firsthand the weaponization of religion by conservatives to attack LGBTQ+ rights. Since marriage equality became legal in Massachusetts in 2004, thanks to the landmark'Goodridge v. Department of Public Health'decision, I have…...

1+ week, 27+ min ago  (258+ words) Aiko Bongolan/Department of War The straights, as people like to say, are not OK. Last fall, I sat down to watch newly'rebranded'Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth stalk around a stage with the energy of a cocaine-addled banker (with a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (247+ words) In "For Louder Days," Yotam Marom explores the building of movements and a way forward for the left. David Shankbone (CC BY 3. 0) Day fourteen of Occupy Wall Street in New York City, September 2011. The New Press, 336 pages. Publication date: June…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (736+ words) After Dobbs eliminated abortion rights, advocates feared Obergefell would be next. But the far right has pivoted to an even more vulnerable target. "Obergefell'rests on substantive due process," says Andy Izenson, staff attorney at Harvard Law School's LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (629+ words) New state model leads to biggest union bargaining unit since 1941. A Lyft driver in San Francisco, California. Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts recently secured a major breakthrough in the struggle for union representation of rideshare drivers." On May 25, the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (494+ words) A recent visit confirmed the wrongness of U. S. policy. On March 20 of this year, I went to Cuba as a participant in the Nuestra America Convoy and Flotilla, with Code Pink, a twenty-four-year-old feminist grassroots peace organization. We went there to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (506+ words) New York City aims to build community wealth with municipal grocery stores. by Marjorie Kelly, Anthony Cook As advocates for progressive social policy, we found it rare and promising good news when New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced in…...