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A Challenge to the Teamsters President

Michael Sainato The Guardian
Richard Hooker Jr is running to replace Trump ally Sean O’Brien as president of the Teamsters International union

Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism

Gabriel Hetland Jacobin
From 2005 to 2016, against the wishes of both the country’s ruling and opposition parties, the small Venezuelan municipality of Torres underwent a radical experiment in democracy, giving residents direct power over the budget. It worked.

Curbing Gun Violence Takes More Than Just Gun Laws

Elizabeth Reed The Progressive
Our nation’s prioritization of personal rights over the common good is not only a major barrier to gun law reform—it is the very soil in which America’s epidemic of violence grows.

The War Works Hard

Dunya Mikhail
Iraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail offers a bleak assessment of American involvement in the Middle East.