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The Prospects for Radical Democracy in Spain

The upcoming municipal elections will be a key test for the rising leftist movement in Spain.

Vicente Rubio Pueyo and Pablo La Parra

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Illinois Bill Would Ban State Pension Funds from Divesting from Israel

The anti-worker and anti-Palestinian agenda seem to be converging in Illinois.

Ben Lorber

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Amtrak’s Spectrum Gap

The main reason for the derailment? Amtrak failed to acquire broadcast rights to send automatic safety communications.

David Sirota

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A Historian’s Case for Why We Should Stop Talking About the Founding Fathers

In American politics, the Founding Fathers are more propaganda than people.

David Sehat

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Seymour Hersh’s Bin Laden Story Challenged the Power Structure—So Media Disregarded It

The veteran reporter's bombshell investigation into the killing of Osama bin Laden sparked a controversy in journalistic decency.

Jim Naureckas

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How Austerity Killed the Humanities

Not long ago, the Right fought viciously over the teaching of the humanities in American universities. Now conservatives are trying to eliminate them altogether.

Andrew Hartman

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Actually, Mad Max: Fury Road Isn’t That Feminist; And It Isn’t That Good, Either

Turns out the MRAs aren't the best judges of feminism.

Eileen Jones

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Oxford University to Divest from Fossil Fuels

Oxford climate activists are the latest to notch a victory against fossil fuel companies.

Lauren Gaynor

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Why the U.S. Spent Billions on an Army that Conscripted Child Soldiers

Was that in the "national interest of the United States?"

Nick Turse

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The End of Mad Men and the Rise of Women

None of the women of Mad Men end up where they wanted to be. But they struggled, and they did rise.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Why Legal Weed Is the Future

Despite a confusing legal landscape, the marijuana economy keeps growing.

David Sirota

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Why Radicals Like Bernie Sanders Should Run As Democrats, Not Independents

The Left should take a page from the Tea Party's playbook and take power from within the Democratic Party.

Jacob Swenson-Lengyel

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As Podemos Rises in Spain, Will Feminism Rise With It?

The rising leftist party is attempting to grapple with the country's mixed legacy on gender equality.

Bécquer Seguín

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‘It’s Not for Us to Live In’: New Yorkers Speak Out About Gentrification

An oral history challenges preconceived notions of gentrification as something one can be 'for' or 'against.'

Richard Kreitner

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5 Million Immigrants, Promised Safety From Deportation, Are Still Waiting

Three months after Obama's executive action was supposed to take effect, it's held up in court, leaving millions in legal limbo.

Saadia Malik

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How the U.S. ‘Solved’ the Central American Migrant Crisis

By getting Mexico to do its dirty work—and making tens of thousands of migrants more vulnerable to rape, kidnapping, extortion and murder.

Joseph Sorrentino

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Why White Americans Don’t Believe in ‘Personal Accountability’ For Police

Do the nation’s police suffer from the ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’?

James Thindwa

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Chris Christie Is Facing Yet Another Investigation

At issue is whether Christie's officials have lined Wall Street's pockets with the retirement savings of teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public sector workers.

David Sirota

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No Easy Outs: The Revolutionary Reformism of Ralph Miliband

A new collection of essays by the seminal Marxist thinker highlights his simultaneously hopeful and clear-eyed vision, fiercely principled but always tethered to reality.

Shawn Gude