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Hairstylist: ‘It’s Like Being on a First Date All the Time’

Matthew Blake

Culture

Piketty and Meatballs

What we talk about when we talk about Capital.

Chris Lehmann

Dispatch

Ice I.C.E., Baby

Philly's landmark law to limit deportations.

Waleed Shahid

OSHA Investigating Fatal Accident At Amazon Facility

Alex Wolff

Labor

Privatizing Government Services Doesn’t Only Hurt Public Workers

David Moberg

Feature

Just Whose National Security?

The government's idea of protection seems awfully self-serving.

Noam Chomsky

Colorado Bans Use of Solitary Confinement for “Seriously Mentally Ill” Prisoners

George Lavender

Feature

Mind the Gap, Inc.

Online organizers use a creative hoax to remind the corporation—and its customers—just who's suffering to produce its products.

Isabelle Nastasia

Comics

Soylent: Our Dystopian Food Future

Matt Bors

Feature

Americans Pay the Price for Private Equity Firms’ Sins

When private equity firms illegally game the system, plutocrats aren't the only ones who suffer.

David Sirota

The Koch Brothers Could Own Every House in Atlanta

Ethan Corey

Labor

One Year After Closings, How Are Chicago’s Public Schools Now?

Yana Kunichoff

Feature

UN Blast of U.S. Human Rights Record Goes Mostly Unnoticed

U.S. media outlets have largely ignored a UN report noting America's human rights violations.

Ana Martinez

Feature

Italy’s Forgotten Refugees

The country's structural support systems are quaking under the sheer volume of immigrants seeking asylum.

Giorgio Ghiglione

Feature

The U.S. Chamber of Secrets

Who's funding the Chamber of Commerce and its attacks on workers' rights groups? No one knows.

Mariya Strauss

Culture

Artisanal Union-Busting

Whole Foods has attempted to crush anything resembling a union drive among its employees.

Chris Lehmann

Obama Floats Landmark Plan To Reduce Carbon Emission

Mary Lorenzo

Comics

A Decade of Environmentalist Deaths

Eric Garcia