We discuss the organizing work of Chips Communities United in the semiconductor industry.

Survivors have the potential to be a political bloc that transforms the conditions that enable the scale of sexual violence in the United States.

By directly meeting the needs of the people, parallel institutions expose government inadequacies and provide a vision for the future.

Looking back on 25 years of the War on Terror and opportunities today to dismantle the tools created to fight it, w/ Darakshan Raja (MJF) & Silky Shah (DWN).

Anti-data center sentiment, from Kentucky to Michigan, is proving to be an effective way to overcome racial divisions and carve out new winning coalitions.

Anti-data center sentiment, from Kentucky to Michigan, is proving to be an effective way to overcome racial divisions and carve out new winning coalitions.

No Future Without Us is a research-to-action compass that asks what it would take for us to keep immigration organizers in the social movements they help build instead of burning them out.

Our two-party system is actually the terrain on which six ideologicial blocs contest for power.

Podcast Episode · How We Build This · September 1 · 46m

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, the first Black woman to serve as Co-Executive Director of Highlander Center, explains how focusing resources on “battleground” states can lead to further neglecting…

For Watani Stiner, accountability for tragedy isn’t about who pulled the trigger, but how he contributed to a culture that made it possible.

A conversation with the authors of “Remaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want.”

Labor councils are important but often overlooked institutions for building working-class power. In this piece, Convergence Resident Writer Whitney Washington takes us from Tennessee to Vermont to…

Zohran, CAAAV, a rent freeze, and embracing conflict for the sake of power. An adapted excerpt from “For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness.”…

A universal sentiment has unified an otherwise fractured American electorate: the belief that our systems—politics, government, and the economy—are rigged, ineffective, and failing.

Many grantmaking institutions have pulled away from funding organizations committed to Palestinian liberation or resisting fascism. A recent campaign targeting the country’s largest donor-advised fund...

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We must reclaim populism from process. Being pro-union, anti-billionaire, and pro-working class isn’t a sufficient economic vision for the scale of crisis we’re in. To win, the Left needs to…

Even in decline, the US will play a big role in global affairs. With control over the trajectory of US politics and the map of world power now up for grabs, the Left has an opportunity to influence…

Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, discusses how the fight against ICE has entered a new phase.

A single canvass conversation doesn’t shift how people understand their world. What does is encountering the same frame across contexts—at their door, in a group chat, in a news story…

Zohran, CAAAV, a rent freeze, and embracing conflict for the sake of power. An adapted excerpt from “For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness.”…

Convergence Magazine’s two-part syllabus exploring how to build powerful movements opposing chronic problems and acute crisis in US foreign policy.

Viktor Orbán was defeated by an upstart party that consolidated a once-disparate coalition.

Convergence Magazine’s 2026 Summer Membership Drive is on! Join us to sustain independent movement media for the long haul.

Discussing a new report from Data and Society Research Institute about how AI is already disempowering workers and what to do about it.

Democracy is under attack in our schools—but political education can equip us to defend it and build something stronger.