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Jesse Jackson Keeps Pushing

30 years after his first presidential run, Jackson talks Obama, Civil Rights and the black vote.

Joel Bleifuss

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Economic Inequality is Much Worse Than Most Americans Believe

According to a recent study, most of us severely underestimate just how bad the gap between the rich and the rest of us have gotten.

David Sirota

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Abortion Isn’t a Necessary Evil. It’s Great

Progressives should admit it: We like abortion.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Noam Chomsky: Only One Thing Will Make Israel Change Course

Israel's brutalization of Palestinians through exercises like "mowing the lawn" will persist without a change in U.S. policy.

Noam Chomsky

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Jon Burge, Torturer of Over 100 Black Men, Is Out of Prison After Less Than Four Years

Chicago's notorious former police commander is released from prison. A human rights lawyer representing police torture victims responds.

Flint Taylor

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White Politicians Still Run the Show in Heavily-Black Towns

Large numbers of African Americans are moving into towns and suburbs, yet their representation in the political system remains weak.

Terrell Jermaine Starr, Alternet

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7 Politicians Who Are Actually Talking About Inequality

A few lone voices in Congress are putting economic populism front and center.

David Moberg

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It’s the Inequality, Stupid

How to frame the 'defining challenge of our time.'

David Moberg

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Failing the Midterms

The Democrats can't win by cutting class.

Chris Lehmann

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Hedge Funds: Fantastic for Wall Street, Horrible for Your Pension

Private equity and hedge funds constantly lose money. So why are taxpayers' money being poured into them?

David Sirota

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Senate Republicans Unanimously Oppose Ending One Percenters’ Control of Elections

The GOP says yet again that control of our political system by the ultra-rich is just fine, thank you.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

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Who Killed Adulthood?

Feminism stands wrongly accused.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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From Watts to Ferguson

The riot is still 'the language of the unheard.'

Rick Perlstein

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Hundreds of Thousands of Climate Marchers Make History

Sunday's climate change protest in New York was bigger than the 1963 March on Washington. What's next?

Cole Stangler

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Naomi Klein’s New Book Is a Manual for a Movement

This Changes Everything argues that only grassroots movements, not politicians or the 1%, can prevent climate disaster.

Cole Stangler

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Is Obama Going Easy On Banks That Break the Law?

Credit Suisse employees have donated more than $376,000 to President Obama—is he repaying the favor?

David Sirota

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Naomi Klein: ‘We Can’t Dodge This Fight’ Between Capitalism and Climate Change

The author explains why right-wing climate-change deniers are more right than you think.

Micah Uetricht

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Shareholders Say, ‘Show Me The Money’

A new rule could require companies to disclose information long requested by their shareholders.

David Sirota

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Janay Rice and the Problem with Trauma Voyeurism

Women's bodies, and the pain inflicted on them, are still regarded as public property.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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The James Foley I Knew

A great journalist, a better friend.

Jeremy Gantz

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Whither the American Dream?

In the wake of the foreclosure crisis, the Federal Housing Finance Agency has moved to make homeownership harder for ordinary Americans.

Mitria Wilson

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The People’s Climate March: This Generation’s March on Washington?

The climate justice movement is preparing for what could be its biggest mobilization yet. The stakes couldn't be higher.

Nick Engelfried

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The Tamale Underground

Street vendors must skirt the law to make a living.

Rebecca Burns

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Why Higher Voter Turnout Scares the GOP

Republicans are once again drumming up fear of a nearly non-existent crime: "voter fraud."

David Sirota