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With Syriza’s Victory, the Anti-Austerity Movement is Going Mainstream

Big business and centrist and right-wing parties throughout the world have called Syriza "dangerous." Well, maybe it's time to get dangerous.

Kate Aronoff

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Along Arizona’s ‘Palestine-Mexico Border,’ Security Companies Are Making a Killing

The U.S. borderlands are becoming a vast open-air laboratory for tech companies where almost any form of surveillance and security technology can be developed and tested.

Todd Miller and Gabriel Schivone

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Even Being a NY Times Columnist’s Son at Yale Isn’t Enough to Prevent Racist Police Harassment

Charles Blow vented on Twitter when his son had a gun drawn on him by Yale Police.

Terrell Jermaine Starr, Alternet

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If Bernie Sanders Runs For President, It Won’t Be as an Independent: “I will not be a spoiler”

The Vermont independent also pledged to push for a law change that would allow supervisors to start making overtime.

Connor Jones

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All the Chicago Mayoral Candidates Are Getting It Wrong: We Don’t Need More Cops

The only real solution to reducing violence is reducing inequality.

Andy Thayer

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Big Tax Bills for the Poor, Tiny Ones for the Rich

Regressive state and local tax policies don’t just harm the poor—they harm entire economies.

David Sirota

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: Christian Radical—And Saint

King’s treatment in the media shows the degree to which, in the American mind, Christianity has been completely stripped of any radicalism.

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig

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Slavoj Žižek: The Urgent Necessity of a Syriza Victory in Greece

Only a split from the European Union by Greece can save what is worth saving in the European legacy: democracy, trust in people and egalitarian solidarity.

Slavoj Žižek

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How To Sell Off a City

Welcome to Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago, the privatized metropolis of the future.

Rick Perlstein

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EXCLUSIVE: New Documents Show FBI Targeted NATO Protesters

In the lead-up to the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago, federal agents teamed with local police to find and interrogate suspected anarchists.

Joel Handley

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With Missions in 105 Countries, We Are In the Golden Age of Black Ops

The U.S.'s most elite forces are conducting missions around the world ranging from kill/capture night raids to training exercises—and this year could see more such missions than ever.

Nick Turse

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Phillip Agnew, Dream Defender

Meet the new generation of civil rights leaders.

Michelle Chen

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The People’s Climate March Is Still Changing the Debate on Climate Change

Much has changed since hundreds of thousands of people marched through New York demanding climate action—and that's not a coincidence.

Robbie Lieberman

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Should Rahm Emanuel Be Exempt From Ethics Laws?

Executives at firms managing Chicago pension money have made more than $600,000 in donations to the mayor, despite a city ordinance—and an executive order by Emanuel himself—restricting contributions from city contractors.

David Sirota

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Bill Moyers on ‘Selma’: ‘Powerful But Flawed’ Portrayal of LBJ’s Civil Rights Record

LBJ's former White House Press Secretary says that while the film sometimes "suggests the very opposite of the truth," it's well worth watching.

BillMoyers.com Staff

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Salman Rushdie on Charlie Hebdo: ‘Vilifying … These Fallen Artists’ Is ‘Disgraceful’

The target of an infamous fatwa weighs in on satire, free speech and religion.

Terry J. Allen

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Why Eric Garner Couldn’t Breathe

The chokehold is only half the story of homicidal violence.

Terry J. Allen

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Sen. Lindsey Graham Attempts to Exploit Fear After Charlie Hebdo Terrorist Attacks

The South Carolina senator's charge that President Obama is to blame for terrorism is based on no evidence—and only serves to stoke fear among Americans.

Chris Edelson

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The Upside of a Republican Congress

Progressives face a 'tough slog,' but so do Obama's pro-corporate trade deals.

Cole Stangler

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Agent Carter’s ‘Feminism’ Is More About Making Money Than Gender Equality

Feminist, sexist, conservative, liberal—Marvel will give us any kind of superhero our heart desires as long as it makes them rich.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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An Open Letter to a Young Army Ranger, From an Old One: Why the War On Terror Isn’t Your Battle

"I’m writing this letter in the hope that offering you a little of my own story might help frame the bigger picture for you."

Rory Fanning

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Mario Cuomo, the Speech and the Challenge to Democrats Today

Today's Democrats should look to Mario Cuomo’s vision of an America in which we embrace our responsibility for each other.

Dan Cantor and Richard Kirsch

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Why Selma’s Critics Are Wrong About Civil Rights History

The film's portrayal of Martin Luther King pushing President Lyndon Johnson to take action for justice apparently still makes some people uncomfortable.

Jim Naureckas

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Is Chris Christie’s Bromance With Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Violating Ethics Laws?

The only thing more awkward than the New Jersey governor and presidential hopeful's hug with the widely despised billionaire owner: Christie may have been breaking the law while doing it.

David Sirota