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The Flashpoint Year in Review

"Suspected Police Bullet": Copspeak Dominates Media Reports On LAPD Killing of Girl

Holiday Sign Off

Let's Go Manchin

"If No Other Route Can Be Found": The Defining Moments That Shift People Left

Political Suicide By Student Loan

“And Then Nothing Happened": Former Democrats On How Inaction Pushed Them Left

The Redpilling of the Wellness Industry: JP Sears, Paul Chek, and Trump

Comedian JP Sears Calls For Civil War, Killing of Trans People During Spokane Appearance

Psaki Bombs

Jobs Are Still Hell For Working Americans

The Flashpoint Expands Into Podcasting

Massachusetts Ren Faire In Chaos Over Flat Earthers, the Far Right, and Owen Benjamin

The Persistent Grievance Machine: Right-Wing Media and the Rittenhouse Verdict

"A Strong Left Messaging Department": The Necessity of Solidarity In Progressive Media

NYC Vaccine Mandates Just Like Jim Crow in the Deep South, Says Naomi Wolf

Right Turn: Glenn Greenwald's Conservative Shift

Bait and Switch: Companies Promise Workers Pay Rates In Ads They Don't Deliver On

Vaccine Mandates, Labor, and the Left: A Conversation With Richard Wolff

Company Man: The Data Behind Glenn Greenwald's Twitter Loyalty to Fox News

The Worst Possible People For the Worst Possible Moment

The BBC Is Being Gripped By a Wave of Transphobia

Free Speech Defenders Curiously Silent As MSNBC Is Barred From Rittenhouse Trial

Right-Wing "University" Already Bleeding Board Members

"The Worst Company I Have Ever Worked For": Kroger Workers Weigh Strike Authorization

"Summit" to Discuss Strategy For a General Strike Features Same Old Post-Left Grifters

Latest Right-Wing Hustle Is Starting a "University" That Promises "Forbidden Courses"

Uncritical Race Theory

The Guardian Tries To Intimidate Me Into Retracting My Article About Transphobia in Their Newsroom

The Hell of Trying to Get Paid Medical Leave In America

ACA Call Center Company Healthcare Coverage More Expensive for Employees Than Plans They Help Others Access

Follow the Leader: Tucker Carlson Reignites Right-Wing Homophobic Rhetoric

"This Is Film Industry Culture"

Kyrsten Sinema Just Wants to Vote No

“We Deserve More and We Deserve Better": Flight Attendants Weighing Strike Action

Boston Cop Misled Investigators On Wife's Shooting, a Felony, But Judge CWOFed Case

“Every Payment I Have Made Has Done Absolutely Nothing"

Boston Cop Who Bragged About Running Down Protesters Back On Full Duty

"An Absurd Racket": Looming Restart of Student Loan Repayment Infuriates Borrowers

They’re Absolutely Not Trying To Find The People Who Did This

"Trust No One": Anti-Vax Meeting Devolves Into Paranoia

"It's Unacceptable": Massachusetts Chief of Police Sends Racist Emails to Town Officials, Keeps Job

Striking Against Corporate Greed at Kentucky's Biggest Bourbon Distillery

“We’re In The Fight Of Our Lives”

Naomi Wolf Demands Retraction of My Article For Good of Her "Reputation"

Tulsi Gabbard Uses 9/11 Anniversary to Spread Islamophobic Message of Hate

The Guardian's Censoring of Judith Butler Part of a Pattern, Current and Former Staffers Say

Guardian Pulls Judith Butler's Comments On "Gender-Critical" Anti-Trans Movement

The Union Wave Hitting America’s Biggest Newspaper Chain

"We Are Working To Live"

“Those Sharks Are Buying Every Single Piece Of Property”

Two Decades of War

“How Could They Not Hate You Forever?”

As Delta Surges, Restaurant Workers Face Difficult Future

"Just How Kitchens Work": Cooking on the Line and Catching Covid

"We Have To Impeach": NY State Lawmakers Call for Cuomo to Resign or Be Removed

On the Razor's Edge: Uncertainty and Fear Come With End of Eviction Moratorium

Audio: MSNBC Bosses Try to Bust Union During Town Hall With Workers

Summer Camps Won't Require Staff Get Vaccinated—While Covid Cases Spike Across Country

New Topeka Frito-Lay Contract Offer Ends "Suicide Shifts"—But Keeps Forced Overtime

"They Need Someone To Work": Notorious Topeka Frito-Lay Plant Now Has Covid Outbreak

Photos and Video From Inside Topeka Frito-Lay Plant Show Hazardous Conditions

"They Treat Us Horribly": Striking Frito-Lay Worker Speaks Out About Conditions In Topeka Facility

The Anti-Trans Rights Movement Is More Violent and Emboldened Than Ever

"It's Not the Final Victory": Closure of Notorious ICE Facilities First Step In Longer Journey 

"We All Quit": Nebraska Burger King Workers Resign In Protest of Company Mistreatment

You've Got To Keep the Death Machine Churning

Russell Stover Kansas Facilities Cut Sanitation to Save Money, Leading to Unclean Production Lines

Leaked Memo Shows No Evil Foods Justifying Laying Off Workers With No Severance

Faced With Worker Shortage at Kansas Facility, Russell Stover Turns to Prison Labor

"It's Really Easy To Lose Hope": Substance Use Disorder During Covid

"Now it's Like Every Other Day": Drug Use During Covid

People "Just Wanted To Keep Partying": Drug Trafficking During the Pandemic

"We Must End the Violent Israeli Occupation": A Former Member of the IDF Speaks Out

Naomi Wolf Juneteenth Anti-Vax Event Cancelled In "Unavoidable Inconvenience" 

The Covid Housing Crisis Is Crushing the Service Industry

Impact: My Reporting Helps a Lawsuit Against the Boston Police Department For Attacks On George Floyd Protesters

The Right Wants to Disempower Ilhan Omar—and Democrats Are Helping

We’re Now on Discord with the Discontents Collective!

Fresh Off Twitter Ban, Naomi Wolf To Headline Anti-Vax "Juneteenth" Event

Massachusetts Furniture Store Offers 10% Off If You're Vaccinated—60% Off If You're Not

The Difficulty of Obtaining an Abortion in Mississippi Is By Design

"The Point of These Laws Is To Confuse People": Texas Abortion Ban Aims to Intimidate

"They Just Want You To Give Up": Fighting the VA Over Death Benefits

A Year After George Floyd’s Murder, Democrats Are Selling Out to the Cops

The Aftermath of War In Gaza

Living Through War In Gaza City

“The Last Time I Felt 'Young' Was When I Was Eight Years Old": Living Through War in Gaza

Just Kids

The Restaurant Organizing Project Is Betting Workers Can Remake the Industry

The Pandemic Gave Retail Employees a Break

Worker Resistance Continues as Maine Dollar General Employees Walk Off the Job

Covid Destroyed the Illusion of the Restaurant Industry

100 Days

Powerful Men

Boston Police Beat, Trampled Protester—Then Tried to Incriminate Her For Filing Complaint

Boston Police Sergeant Who Bragged About Running Down Protesters Back on Duty

"They start taking a sledgehammer to this with zero nuance"

The Politics of Change

Copland Tales

Destroying Alex Morse

The First Ten Days

The "I Didn't Know I Couldn't Do That" Brigade

A failed—but attempted—coup, and other stories