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Labor

Teamsters Warehouse Workers Face a Bankruptcy Court Designed to Protect Bosses, Not Workers

Bruce Vail

Labor

Illinois Teachers Join Wave of Suburban Strikes

Kevin Solari

Comics

The Kind of Blood That Causes Alarm

Matt Bors

Labor

Why Are Teach for America and a California Billionaire Investing in a Minnesota School Board Race?

Sarah Lahm

Labor

Precarious Academic Workers Are Pushing Back Against the Tenuous Track

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Today Show Nabs Soldiers Who Scam Thousands, Ignores Corporations That Scam Billions

Ian Reifowitz

Feature

Jesse Jackson Keeps Pushing

30 years after his first presidential run, Jackson talks Obama, Civil Rights and the black vote.

Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Economic Inequality is Much Worse Than Most Americans Believe

According to a recent study, most of us severely underestimate just how bad the gap between the rich and the rest of us have gotten.

David Sirota

Feature

Abortion Isn’t a Necessary Evil. It’s Great

Progressives should admit it: We like abortion.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

Portland Church Fights a Worker Center Activist’s Deportation—And a Broken Immigration System

Kevin Solari

Feature

Noam Chomsky: Only One Thing Will Make Israel Change Course

Israel's brutalization of Palestinians through exercises like "mowing the lawn" will persist without a change in U.S. policy.

Noam Chomsky

Culture

Portrait of a Husband, Father and Genocidal Butcher

Heading the SS didn't excuse Heinrich Himmler from his fatherly duties.

Michael Atkinson

Feature

Jon Burge, Torturer of Over 100 Black Men, Is Out of Prison After Less Than Four Years

Chicago's notorious former police commander is released from prison. A human rights lawyer representing police torture victims responds.

Flint Taylor

Dispatch

Activist Pressure Keeps Walgreen’s HQ—And Nearly $4 Billion in Taxes—In U.S.

Thanks to activists, Walgreens execs cancel their Switzerland-bound flights.

Dan Staggs

Feature

White Politicians Still Run the Show in Heavily-Black Towns

Large numbers of African Americans are moving into towns and suburbs, yet their representation in the political system remains weak.

Terrell Jermaine Starr, Alternet

Labor

New Orleans Union Membership Set to Double After Hotel and Casino Workers Win

Kevin Solari

Comics

Recruiting Allies in Syria

Matt Bors

Culture

The Poor Don’t Need Pity

In a new book, Linda Tirado elaborates on her viral essay, 'Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, Poverty Thoughts.'

Joanna Scutts