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ISIS: Managers of Savagery

The sectarian brutality of ISIS has allowed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to disingenuously play the victim: the arsonist masquerading as a firefighter.

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

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Mental Health Activists Say Rahm Emanuel Exploded at Them: “You’re going to respect me!”

The incident came almost three years to the day that another activist died after her mental health clinic was closed by Mayor Emanuel.

Yana Kunichoff

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Rahm Emanuel’s New Campaign Ad Shows a Mayor Who’s Terrified He’s About to Lose

His reelection bid was supposed to be a cakewalk, but Rahm is clearly starting to get nervous.

Micah Uetricht

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Why Chuy Garcia Needs To Condemn Rahm Emanuel’s Secret Police Interrogation Site (Updated)

By any other name, it still smells like torture.

Flint Taylor

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Slavoj Žižek: Whither Zionism?

In order to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we should not dwell in ancient past—we should forget it.

Slavoj Žižek

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Chicago Progressives: Examine the Election’s Numbers Before Patting Yourselves on the Back

The city's progressives should claim no easy victories.

Marilyn Katz

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How New York Activists Banned Fracking

Anti-fracking forces not only pushed a right-leaning Democratic governor to pass the ban, but proved the conventional wisdom—that a ban would be impossible—wrong.

Eric Weltman

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8 Lessons American Progressives Can Take From Greece’s Syriza and Spain’s Podemos

We could learn a few things from the way Syriza is standing up to the powers-that-be in European capitalism.

Dan Cantor and Ted Fertik

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When It Comes to Pensions, Private Equity Funds Are Using Some Fuzzy Math

If we don't strengthen oversight over investments like private equity now, we could have a disaster on our hands in the not-so-distant future.

David Sirota

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In the West Bank, the Kids Aren’t All Right

Palestinian children are taken from their beds in night raids and not returned to their families for months.

Beth Maschinot

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The FCC Just Adopted Strong Net Neutrality Rules—Thanks to Activists

The victory wouldn't have been possible without agitation from the grassroots.

Jay Cassano

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With Chicago Tired of “Mayor 1%,” Chuy García Could Actually Win His Runoff with Rahm Emanuel

While money poured into the recent mayoral and aldermanic elections, voters showed that they are tired of business as usual.

Kari Lydersen

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Politico Carries Water for Bill O’Reilly—and His Bosses

O'Reilly's claim that he was in a war zone was just an 'embellishment,' Dylan Byers assures us.

Jim Naureckas

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Who’s Afraid of Chicago’s Progressive Aldermen? Rahm Emanuel, That’s Who.

The Chicago mayor's super PAC has spent large amounts of money to protect his allies on City Council—and take down those who oppose him.

Yana Kunichoff

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Do Chicago’s Mayoral Candidates Care About Queer and Trans Chicagoans?

Only one candidate has staked out a strong position in favor of LGBTQ rights—and it isn't Rahm Emanuel.

H. Melt

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As Germany Stands Firm Against Attempts to Scale Back Austerity in Greece, What’s Next for Syriza?

Germany's unwillingness to budge on the strict cuts demanded of Greece are bad news for rolling back austerity throughout the rest of Europe.

Alexandros Orphanides

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Chicago Police Tight-lipped About Use of License Plate Scanners, Despite $500,000 New Contract

A secretive contracting process—and limited responses to information requests—leave Chicagoans in the dark about how their license plate data is being collected and used.

Joel Handley

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Just Taxing the 1 Percent as Much as We Tax the Poor Would Yield Billions for Cash-Strapped States

A new report shows that states and cities effectively tax the 1 percent at only 5.4 percent—half what they tax the poor (10.9 percent).

David Sirota

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The Wrong Way to Revitalize a City

ALEC’s scheme to take the community out of community development.

Rachel M. Cohen

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Pablo Iglesias Takes Podemos’s Bottom-Up, Anti-Austerity Politics to New York

The general secretary of the leftist Spanish party paid homage to American radicals while denouncing "the party of Wall Street."

Alexandros Orphanides

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Steven Greenhouse on Keeping the Labor Beat Alive

The longtime New York Times labor reporter on the state of the American labor movement and labor journalism.

Micah Uetricht

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EMA: This is What Anti-Capitalist Virtual-Reality Art Looks Like

A performance at PS1 used the Oculus Rift VR headset to explore being a stranded human subjectivity in a commodified world.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Why Syriza Hasn’t Threatened to Leave the European Union—Yet

Greece's newly elected radical left coalition is playing the long game.

Alexandros Orphanides

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Beefing Up Border Security Is Not a Magical Solution for Immigration Policy

Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón says American political groups opposed to undocumented immigration are actually encouraging immigrants in the U.S. to stay.

David Sirota