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Insanely Rich People Insisting They’re Just Average Joes: Only in America

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew can't wrap his head around the fact that he's really, really wealthy.

David Sirota

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From Ukraine’s Maidan to Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, Our Top 10 Films of 2014

Despite the ever-growing obsession with crappy remakes and computerized images of blowing shit up, the year featured some challenging, meaningful films.

Michael Atkinson

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Chicago Police Tortured Dozens of Black Men. Now, Victims Are Demanding Reparations.

Momentum is growing for a bill to finally help heal the wounds of years of torture of black men by the Chicago Police Department.

F. Amanda Tugade

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“This Will Have a Ripple Effect Across the Country”: State of New York Bans Fracking

After years of pushing in New York, environmental activists have finally chalked up a victory against hydraulic fracturing.

Cole Stangler

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The Media’s 3 False Assumptions About American Torture

The Senate torture report could be the opening we need to make U.S. torture a thing of the past. Let’s not waste it.

Rebecca Gordon

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Charter Schools May Be Re-Segregating America’s Education System

Charters' defenders like to position themselves as 21st century civil rights activists. But a Delaware lawsuit alleges that charters are actually worsening racial inequality in the state.

David Sirota

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The Recipe For A Successful Protest Movement

It's much more than a sheer numbers game: movements need a combination of mass disruption and sacrifice in order to take off.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

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The Most Hated Woman on the Internet

Haters--myself included--have pummeled Amanda Palmer so far beyond recognition that it’s disconcerting to hear her actual voice in her new memoir, The Art of Asking.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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On International Human Rights Day, Consider the U.N.‘s Statements on the American Justice System

We usually think of "human rights abuses" as something that occur abroad. But recent U.N. proceedings have strong words for the U.S.'s domestic and international activities.

Flint Taylor

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Slavoj Žižek: How the United States Rolls

It's lonely being the global policeman.

Slavoj Žižek

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Do You Want Shrapnel with That Airbag?

Culpable carmakers and captive regulators make a deadly combo.

Terry J. Allen

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Why No One Remembers the Peacemakers

Elites prefer to commemorate dead soldiers, but perhaps we should remember the fighters who deserted and the activists who demanded peace.

Adam Hochschild

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When Police ‘Reforms’ Only Legitimize Police Abuses

The proposed policing reforms in response to the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner won't lessen police violence against communities of color. In fact, they may actually make it worse.

Michael Collins

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Sleight of the Invisible Hand

Stock market fraud is as old as the stock market.

Chris Lehmann

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The 14-Year-Old Voice of the Climate Change Generation

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is calling on both the young and the old to save our planet.

Jordan McCurdy

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Feeling Angry About the Darren Wilson Decision? Join the Fight for the ‘Michael Brown Law’

We can't change the grand jury's verdict, but we can take action alongside the Brown family to require police to wear body cameras.

Ian Reifowitz

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The One Thing Worse Than Big Dairy’s Abuse of Cows? Its Abuse of Workers.

While the dairy industry's cruel treatment of cows has been well documented, workers face vile and often dangerous conditions.

Joseph Sorrentino

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A Short History of Killer Cops Let Off the Hook

The U.S. has a long history of allowing police to walk free after vicious racist violence.

Flint Taylor

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Mockingjay’s Contradictory Revolution

The latest Hunger Games installment suggests that everything we do—even our resistance—is compromised.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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In Iraq and Beyond, U.S. Foreign Policy is Based On Complete Fallacies

How can we ever hope for a sane foreign policy in the Middle East when America's bedrock assumptions about the region are completely wrong?

Andrew J. Bacevich

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The Dismantling of Medicaid

Once considered one of the crowning achievements of The Great Society, Medicaid is now being steadily chipped away—and patients are suffering because of it.

Michael Collins

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Dozens of Activists Arrested in Battle Against a Fracking “Gateway Drug” in New York

Residents of New York's Finger Lakes argue that gas projects would spell ecological and economic disaster for the region.

Molly Bennet

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Should We Trust Him? The Mixed Results of Obama’s Past Immigrant Relief Measures

Past executive actions for undocumented immigrants under the president's administration haven't always delivered.

Yana Kunichoff

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Journalists Aren’t Covering Local Elections. Our Democracy Is Suffering Because of It.

What if you held an election and nobody showed up to cover it? Americans now know the answer: elections with lots of paid ads but little journalism, context or objective facts.

David Sirota