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Feature

How Obamacare Is Actually Preventing Americans From Escaping Poverty

Obamacare was intended to alleviate the health cost burdens for the working and middle class. But in practice, it often works differently.

Darlena Cunha

Culture

A Shaky Launch for HBO’s The Brink

The new black comedy about nuclear war misses its target.

Eileen Jones

Labor

25 Years Later: Lessons From the Organizers of Justice for Janitors

Stephen Lerner and Jono Shaffer

Labor

California Court Ruling Could Make It Nearly Impossible for Farmworkers To Win Union Contracts

David Bacon

Feature

Why Bernie Sanders Is the Perfect Candidate for This Moment in American Politics

Sanders's laser-like focus on inequality is perfectly in sync with the nation's current political climate.

Theo Anderson

Labor

New York State Legislators Have Just One More Day To Pass a Bill Protecting Nail Salon Workers

Karen Gwee

Labor

We Need Domestic and International Regulations to Prevent Corporations from Fleeing Overseas

Miriam Shestack

Labor

Clergy March on Billionaires as Moral Mondays Come to Chicago

Martin de Bourmont

Labor

A Farmworkers Bill of Rights in New York May Finally End “Abhorrent and Unacceptable” Treatment

Elizabeth Grossman

Feature

In Max Blumenthal’s ‘The 51 Day War,’ Life in Gaza Looks Bleak, But Resistance is Growing

Blumenthal offers an unembellished look at the misery on the ground in the Gaza Strip during Israel's Operation Protective Edge in 2014.

Ben Lorber

Labor

The List of the Fight for $15’s Victories—Tangible and Intangible—Is Getting Longer

David Moberg

Video

Chicago Police Are Tracking Cellphone Data of Activists and Black Lives Matter Protesters

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature

The Yes Men’s Latest Stunt: Helping Activists Around the County Pull Off Their Own Pranks

The activists behind the group are known for pranking big corporate and governmental institutions. Now they have created a tool to help others do the same.

Michael Payne

Labor

In the Global Apparel Industry, Abusive and Deadly Working Conditions Are Still the Norm

Erik Loomis

Feature

Caitlyn Jenner and Miley Cyrus Shouldn’t Be Asked to Be Official LGBTQ Representatives

Jenner and Cyrus may be unlikely social justice ambassadors, but they're being the best thing they can be: themselves.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

How the Border Security Industry Will Profit Hugely From Climate Change

A hawk’s eye-view of global warming.

Todd Miller and Alex Devoid

Feature

The Death of Climate Denialism

Soon the Right will have to abandon its head-in-the-sand strategy—but its next tactic may be more dangerous.

Kate Aronoff

Rural America

West Coast Grange Wars: A Reborn Farmers’ Movement Takes on Corporate Agriculture

John Collins