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Good News for Philadelphia Teachers: Court Delays Unelected Reformers’ Shady Contract Cancellation

Kevin Solari

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Hawaiian Health Care Workers Push Back Against Health Care Giant Kaiser Permanente

Steve Early

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It’s Not Just Bigoted Cops—Ferguson Has Seen a Century of Racist Policies

Segregated cities like Ferguson, Missouri, don't just develop spontaneously. They are consciously created by people and institutions who have a stake in maintaining racial inequality.

Joshua Holland

Labor

The Sharing Economy: 21st Century Technology, 19th Century Worker Protections

Amanda Armstrong

Labor

Remembering the Deadly Donora Smog

Kari Lydersen

Labor

The Super Bowl Will Gross Half a Billion Dollars This Year, But the NFL Really Needs Your Free Labor

Aviana Willis

Video

A Dollar Bill Is Not What You Think It Is

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Labor

Meet the High School Social Studies Teacher Taking On Chicago’s Right-Wing Democrats

Yana Kunichoff

Labor

Grave Digger: “You’ve Got to Uphold Some Type of Integrity”

Amien Essif

Viewpoint

Obama’s Delay on Immigration: Shameful, But Savvy

Latinos won't tip the midterms. Anti-immigrant right-wingers might.

Achy Obejas

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St. Louis University Occupation Ends, But Movement for Justice in Ferguson Continues

The spirit of Occupy Wall Street lived on in a weeklong campus occupation demanding justice for Michael Brown.

James Anderson

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Amy Poehler’s Radical Niceness

Reading Poehler's new book Yes Please is like hanging out with a friend who believes you can do anything, and wants you to do much better.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

House Democrats Call for an Investigation into Jimmy John’s Non-Compete Clauses

Will Craft

Feature

So the Battle Over Legalization Has Come Down to This: A Duel Between Weed and Booze

Drug reformers say marijuana is a far less harmful substance than alcohol—and are willing to go "hit for shot" to prove it.

David Sirota

Feature

The Polluters Must Pay

Fossil fuel companies' profits are morally illegitimate. The public has the right to take those profits—to clean up their mess.

Naomi Klein

Labor

Nervous, Cuomo? Green Party’s Howie Hawkins Draws 6 Teachers Union Endorsements

Kevin Solari

Labor

The Sharing Economy’s ‘First Strike’: Uber Drivers Turn Off the App

Rebecca Burns

Labor

“The Show Must Go On”: Guitar Center Workers Push for First Contracts

Diane Krauthamer