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Labor

How 13 Complaints Against McDonald’s Could Help Millions Unionize

David Moberg

Comics

The Truth About Torture Defense

Matt Bors

Feature

2015: The Year the Climate Justice Movement Gains the Upper Hand?

Despite the doom and gloom about our impending climate catastrophe, the past year actually saw some incredibly hopeful—and growing—climate activism.

Rebecca Solnit

Labor

Temple’s Adjunct Faculty to Join Thousands of Others in Citywide Union

Kevin Solari

Dispatch

A New Strategy To Make the Banks Pay

Youngstown, Ohio, may have found the cure to the national plague of abandoned properties.

Laura Gottesdiener

Labor

Volkswagen’s Employee Engagement Plan Could Weaken Labor

Alexandra Bradbury

Feature

Texas: The Blue Frontier

Texas won't turn blue from the top down, but it may already be doing so from the ground up.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Slip of an Officer’s Tongue Suggests Police Are Monitoring #BlackLivesMatter Protesters’ Cell Phones

Are Chicago police using 'stingrays' against activists?

Joel Handley

Feature

Whatever Obama’s Calculations, Socialism Is Still Alive and Well in Cuba

After 54 years of the most powerful country on earth with its boot on your collective neck, any relief is worthy of celebration.

Tom Hansen

Feature

Introducing ‘We Surveil and Protect’: An In These Times Investigation

A brief history of surveillance by the Chicago Police Department.

Joel Handley

Feature

Why Bernie Sanders Needs to Run for President—As an Independent

The corporate capture of both parties, explosion of energy in grassroots movements, and popular disgust with politics as usual make this the perfect moment for Sanders to run outside the Democratic Party.

David Goodner

Labor

Next Up for Retired UFC Champion: Organizing a Union for Ultimate Fighters

Kevin Solari

Feature

Insanely Rich People Insisting They’re Just Average Joes: Only in America

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew can't wrap his head around the fact that he's really, really wealthy.

David Sirota

Viewpoint

Why Cuba, Why Now?

The 5 likeliest reasons behind Obama's surprise move to reverse a 53-year-old policy.

Achy Obejas

Feature

From Ukraine’s Maidan to Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, Our Top 10 Films of 2014

Despite the ever-growing obsession with crappy remakes and computerized images of blowing shit up, the year featured some challenging, meaningful films.

Michael Atkinson

Dispatch

Should We Oppose the Intervention Against ISIS?

Most U.S. leftists say yes. But voices we rarely hear—Kurds and members of the Syrian opposition—have more ambiguous views.

Danny Postel

Labor

Obamacare Counselor: “On the Surface, People Have Choices. But It’s a Complete Farce”

Rebecca Burns

Culture

Brother, Can You Spare a Euro?

By posing the choice between a coworker's job and 1,000 Euros, Two Days, One Night explores the state of worker solidarity.

Michael Atkinson