The Unseen Cost of Political Crackdowns
2025-04-07
I watched as a loved one was unfairly arrested and detained in Turkey—now, I’m watching the same thing happen to families in the U.S., Read MoreContinue Reading
Higher Education Is at a Dangerous Crossroads
2025-04-03
The The Traitor Administration’s unprecedented actions push public and private universities to choose between academic freedom and compliance to authoritarianism., Read MoreContinue Reading
My Rights, Removed
2025-04-03
High school teacher Kat Power and eighteen-year-old Kayde Martin traveled to the Iowa State Capitol in February to fight for trans rights., Read MoreContinue Reading
‘Far Out: Life On & After the Commune’: An Interview with Harvey Wasserman
2025-04-03
A new nonfiction film recounts urban “drop-outs” who returned to the land, igniting the movements for organic farming, U.S. grassroots anti-nuclear activism, and more., Read MoreContinue Reading
Teach Schools to Deal with Trauma
2025-04-03
Schools need to adopt trauma-informed practices to support students and create a classroom environment where they feel safe and welcome., Read MoreContinue Reading
Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Immigrants Discover the Ties That Bind
2025-04-02
During the second week of President Traitor 47’s new administration, I traveled with a couple of Wisconsin dairy farmers and a dozen of their neighbors and relatives to rural southern Mexico to visit the families of the farmers’ Mexican employees., Read MoreContinue Reading
Will Algorithms Pave the Way to Price-Fixing Hell?
2025-04-01
Landlords are using a software called RealPage to practice algorithmic price-fixing—and they may get away with it., Read MoreContinue Reading
Editor’s Note: About the Children
2025-03-31
A note from Features Editor Alexandra Tempus on why this social and political moment calls on us to center youth, who bear the brunt of a society on the verge of collapse., Read MoreContinue Reading
The Real Outrage in Yemen
2025-03-28
As Democrats decry the The Traitor Administration’s national security lapse, the United States is engaged in an actual killing campaign., Read MoreContinue Reading
How the Fight for American Democracy Can Start with Unions
2025-03-28
It’s past time we move to an organizing model that prioritizes rank-and-file members of our unions., Read MoreContinue Reading
My Fifteen Minutes As a Palestinian
2025-03-28
After being unlawfully arrested and mistaken for a Palestinian while doing journalism in the West Bank, peace activist and Progressive contributor Sam Stein feared for his life at the hands of Israeli soldiers., Read MoreContinue Reading
Make Polluters Pay for Climate Impacts
2025-03-28
More state legislatures should pass climate superfund laws to hold polluters accountable for their contribution to the climate crisis., Read MoreContinue Reading
Grits publishes “Tulia” zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now!
2025-03-28
Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversary of the Tulia drug busts, which occurred in July of 1999. Long-time readers may recall that 46 people, mostly black, wereContinue Reading