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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

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Banking Goes Postal

Sixty-four unions and community groups are demanding a banking public option—at the post office.

David Moberg

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It Wasn’t About Oil, and It Wasn’t About the Free Market: Why We Invaded Iraq

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad's new book not only interrogates the motivations behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but also reveals a cautionary tale for the present.

Danny Postel

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Hey Brian Williams: You’ve Got a Couple Other Lies You Should Probably Apologize For

Now that the NBC anchor has cleared up the lies about his helicopter in Iraq, there are some other tall tales that he might want to take back.

Jim Naureckas

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Is a Huge Deal. So Why Is It Being Kept Secret?

President Barack Obama's administration has come under criticism due to its unwillingness to release the full text of the prospective TPP agreement between the United States and 11 Asian nations.

David Sirota

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EXCLUSIVE: Documents Show Comcast Ghostwrote Pro-TWC Merger Letters of Support for Hawaii Governor

New records reveal that the cable giant wrote a lobbying letter signed by the Aloha State's head.

Spencer Woodman

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Veteran on ‘American Sniper’: The Lies Chris Kyle Told Are Less Dangerous Than the Lies He Believed

Enough about Chris Kyle. Let’s focus our anger against the authorities and the institutions that craft the lies that the Chris Kyles of the world believe.

Brock McIntosh

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On I.F. Stone and Our Diminishing Sense of Duty

Reading Stone on the movement against the Vietnam War offers a stark reminder of today's lack of any sense of duty, responsibility or even connection to our government.

Tom Engelhardt

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Why 2015’s Pop Music Scene Looks a Lot Like 1995’s

Sleater-Kinney, Bjork and PJ Harvey are back. And they have something to teach the new wave of 'feminist' artists.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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The Super Bowl’s Violence Is America’s Violence

Connecting the dots between football and the violence throughout our society might tell us more than we care to know about ourselves.

Theo Anderson and Joshua Salzmann

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If You Tweet This, Jonathan Chait Wins

Chait styles himself as the defender of old-school liberalism, but the fact is, "Not Very P.C. Of You" is one of the most cynical, lazy pieces of #content you'll read all year.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Save Us From Washington’s Visionaries: In (Modest) Praise of a Comforting Mediocrity

Washington's lack of visionaries and willingness to steer clear of global disasters were ultimately a good thing.

Andrew J. Bacevich

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Robert Reich: Without Reeling In Wall Street, the Middle Class Is Doomed

It’s nice that presidential aspirants are talking about rebuilding America’s middle class. But to be credible, candidates must take clear aim at Wall Street.

Robert Reich

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Rahm Emanuel Is a Union-buster. So Why Are Chicago Unions Backing Him?

Most of the city's labor movement is laying low or supporting the mayor in the upcoming election, despite his well-known anti-worker policies.

David Moberg

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On Jonathan Chait, ‘Politically Correct’ Speech and the Social Media Left

Progressive social media activism can be absurd and self-defeating, but it shouldn’t be a tool for smug liberals to dismiss radical critiques.

David Sessions