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Dispatch

How One Group of Moms Is Keeping the Peace on One of Chicago’s Most Violent Street Corners

The group wants to make one thing clear: Young black men are not the enemy.

Lillian Osborne and Jessica Stites

Feature

Lessons from Tonkin and Libya: We Need a President Who Won’t Trick Us Into War

Deception about Libya--and possibly Syria as well--descends from Vietnam-era policies. Both major parties are guilty. Where do the 2016 candidates stand?

Stephen R. Weissman

Labor

Verizon Workers Prepare for a Strike Over Job and Benefit Cuts

Pam Galpern

Culture

Mr. Robot Is the Anti-Capitalist TV Show We’ve Been Waiting For

By placing class warfare front and center, Mr. Robot makes socialism a vibrant force again in popular culture, its aims urgent and compelling.

Brian Cook

Labor

Duquesne’s NLRB Filing Reads as a Brazen Threat To Adjunct Union Organizers

Moshe Z. Marvit

Video

ITT’s Micah Uetricht and Rachel Cohen on the Uphill Battle for Charter-School Unionization

Illan Ireland

Feature

Jose Antonio Vargas on White People, Trump and Bernie Sanders’ Black Lives Matter Problem

The undocumented documentarian discusses why white Americans—including presidential candidates—have trouble talking about race.

Karen Gwee

Labor

Why Unions Supported a Single-Payer Bill That Passed New York’s State Assembly

Mark Dudzic

Labor

Bankruptcy Judge Gives Go-Ahead for Mass Firings of Unionized A&P Grocery Workers

Bruce Vail

Labor

As Nabisco Ships 600 Jobs Out of Chicago to Mexico, Maybe It’s Time To Give Up Oreos

Marilyn Katz

Rural America

The New Economics of Plenitude

Juliet B. Schor

Feature

Remembering Michael Harrington, A Heroic Democratic Socialist Leader

The vision of the socialist organizer, who died on this day in 1989, remains inspiring.

Maurice Isserman

Viewpoint

Gov. Scott Walker’s Economic Development Record in Wisconsin Has Been a Scandal-Wracked Failure

Walker's development record consists of giving taxpayer dollars to his friends—while Wisconsin's economy has remained in the toilet.

David Sirota

Feature

ICE May Be Forced to Cease Inhumane Family Detention; Migrant Advocates Cheer Court Ruling

A California judge affirmed that it's illegal to detain children—and ordered their mothers released, too

Joseph Sorrentino

Rural America

How Can We Achieve Sustainability?: First We Have to Anticipate the Future

Fred Kirschenmann

Feature

Iowans Join 100,000 at Bernie Sanders House Parties Across the Country Last Night

Attendees at parties across Iowa say that Bernie is "the guy we need right now."

David Goodner

Should Prisoners Pay Medical Bills?

George Lavender

Dispatch

Apple Doesn’t Want You To Be Able To Fix Your iPhone—Here’s Why

The cure for planned Apple-escence

Kendra Pierre-Louis