Inside ITT

Culture

Who’s Behind the Smithsonian Museum’s $63 Million Ode to American Capitalism?

Just who you would think.

Chris Lehmann

Labor

China’s Currency Devaluation Protected Its Workers—Something the U.S. Doesn’t Bother With

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

InvestigationGoodman Institute

The Real War on Families: Why the U.S. Needs Paid Leave Now

Investigation reveals the devastating effects of the lack of paid family leave: Our data show nearly 1 in 4 employed mothers return to work within two weeks of childbirth.

Sharon Lerner

Feature

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The U.S. Military Is in Africa—But What Is It Doing There?

Journalist Nick Turse discusses his new book, Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa.

Marc Daalder

Labor

Machinists Union Members Outraged Over Hillary Clinton Endorsement, Say They Want Bernie Sanders

Mario Vasquez

Viewpoint

Gov. Walker Gets Off ‘Scot-Free’ For Alleged Campaign Finance Violations

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has halted an investigation into Walker's questionable campaign finance tactics.

Joel Bleifuss

Rural America

Soil is Life: Herbivorous Solar Conversion and Carbon Sequestration in the Shenandoah Valley

Joel Salatin

Rural America

Going Postal: How All-Mail Voting Thwarts Navajo Voters

Stephanie Woodard

Labor

Even if SCOTUS Makes Public Sector Unions Right-to-Work, Workers Can Still Organize and Win

Samantha Winslow

Labor

Union President: Supermarket Chain A&P Will Fire 25,000 Grocery Workers

Bruce Vail

Viewpoint

Would Jesus Vote for Bernie Sanders?

With the decline of culture war issues and the rise of crises like climate change, Bernie might actually be able to win over young evangelicals.

Theo Anderson

Comics

What ‘Officer-Involved Shooting’ Really Means

Matt Bors

Feature

Even One of the Koch Brothers Thinks We Need To End Corporate Welfare

Charles Koch argued for an end to preferential treatment for corporations—but did he mean it?

David Sirota

Feature

Iran and the Myth of Anti-Semitism

Iranian rhetoric isn't anti-Semitic—it's anti-Zionist.

Roy Isacowitz

Culture

Why the Youngest Country on Earth Can’t Escape the Yoke of Colonialism

'We Come as Friends' captures the Western exploitation of South Sudan from the moment of its conception

Michael Atkinson

Feature

The Amazing Plasticity of American Statecraft

Think of Washington as a poker player that gets dealt a hand consisting of half the deck: no matter how sloppily and stupidly it plays its cards, it is hard for it to lose.

Chase Madar

Feature

How the Government Fast-Tracked Shell’s Arctic Drilling

After Royal Dutch Shell's mishaps in the Arctic in 2012, the Obama administration indicated a major rethink of the approval process was in order—but instead, Shell got another rubber stamp.

Kamil Ahsan

Feature

A New Poll Has Bernie Sanders Leading Hillary Clinton by 7 Percent in the New Hampshire Primary

New Hampshire seems to be feeling the Bern.

Marc Daalder