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84 House Democrats Say ‘No’ to Austerity

The Congressional Progressive Caucus' budget may have failed, but it failed well.

Cole Stangler

Feature

Is Life Without Parole Any Better Than the Death Penalty?

Maryland is poised to be the 18th state to abolish capital punishment, in favor of lifetime imprisonment.

Rebecca Burns

Palestinians Unwelcome Obama; $1 Million in Medical Debt Abolished; ‘Persepolis’ Protests in Chicago

Ben Lorber

Feature

Call It What It Is: A Class War

The GOP's budget is a naked assault on the poor.

David Sirota

Labor

Penny and Me: UNITE HERE Campaigns for Housekeeper To Join Hyatt’s Board

David Moberg

Comics

Explaining the Iraq War

Jeff Danziger

Pencils Down: Faced With Mass Closings, Chicago School Activists Mull a Testing Revolt

Rebecca Burns

Video

Elizabeth Warren: Why Isn’t Minimum Wage $22?

Ian Becker

Labor

Could New York Be the Next Chicago?

James Cersonsky

Culture

Zen and the Art of Corporate Overthrow

HBO's 'Enlightened' was the best send-up of capitalism on TV.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Race-Baiting Kicks Off GOP Fight Against Obama’s Labor Pick

Ian Becker

Comics

A Spectre Haunting Pope Francis

Eric Garcia

Labor

How the Poultry Industry is Grinding Up Workers’ Health and Rights

Michelle Chen

Labor

Haitian Sweatshops: Made in the U.S.A.

Fran Quigley

Dispatch

Shot, Then Shut Out

Chicago's most crime-ridden neighborhoods have no access to trauma care.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Paid Sick Days Bill Has Unexpected Opponent: Comcast

Mike Elk

Feature

Welfare’s War on Drugs

Why laws mandating drug tests for welfare recipients are doomed to fail.

Camille Beredjick

Labor

Witness the GOP’s Vanishing SKILLS Act

Mike Elk