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Feature

Chicago’s Racial Justice Movement Can’t Stop at the Resignation of Police Chief Garry McCarthy

McCarthy's resignation should be seen as the beginning, not the end.

Charles Brown

Feature

Barbara Ehrenreich: America’s Blue-Collar White People Are Dying at an Astounding Rate

Could the bump in white working class deaths be the result of widespread despair?

Barbara Ehrenreich

Rural America

An Interview with the 15-Year-Old Who is Suing Obama for Not Stopping Climate Change

Rural America In These Times

Dispatch

How One City Is Making Sure Bosses Comply With Wage Theft and Paid Sick Leave Laws

Seattle's labor regulators are now under one roof.

Jake Blumgart

Labor

Black Friday Protests: A New Holiday for Progressives?

David Moberg

Feature

The Robots Are Coming. Whether They’ll Be Job Terminators or Job Transformers Is Up to Us.

Don't fear the robot.

David Moberg

Viewpoint

For Laquan McDonald and All Victims of Police Brutality, We Have To Win

If the progressive movement can't organize itself to fight back against racism and injustice in Chicago and around the country, police murders like those of Laquan McDonald, Freddie Gray and Rekia Boyd will never stop.

Katelyn Johnson

Labor

“I often had to skip meals”: Senate Dining Room Workers Want a Union, Say They’re Living in Poverty

Bruce Vail

Rural America

Before Bernie Sanders: A 19th Century Populist’s Run for the Presidency

John Collins

Culture

The Great Academic Novel

At the ripe age of 50, John Williams' "Stoner" is getting the attention it deserves

Joanna Scutts

After 16 Years in Prison DNA Evidence Leads to Exoneration

George Lavender

Labor

When America Was Overcome with Anti-Japanese Xenophobia During WWII, One Union Fought Back

Peter Cole

Feature

American Hunger-Related Healthcare Costs Exceeded $160 Billion in 2014, According to New Study

Food insecurity, especially for children, remains near record high despite the Great Recession’s official end.

Elizabeth Grossman

Feature

Henry Kissinger’s Neverending Psychological Warfare

What if the "psy-war" the young Kissinger was captivated by is still ongoing?

Joseph Fronczak

Comics

The Syria Plan We’ve Been Waiting For

Matt Bors

Labor

Labor Law Is Failing Us. It’s Time To Push for a New Labor Act.

Shaun Richman

Labor

Despite SEIU Intl. Hillary Clinton Endorsement, SEIU Local 1984 in NH Votes to Back Bernie Sanders

Mario Vasquez

Labor

Security Guards from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport Join One-Day Nationwide Airport Worker Strike

Tom Ladendorf