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Labor

Volkswagen Tied to Another Anti-Union Group

Mike Elk

Comics

Mandela Terrorist

Eric Garcia

Feature

Homeland, Season 3, Episode 11: Where’s Fara?

At the expense of more interesting (and diverse) characters, Homeland gives us another hour of Brody.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

Will Power: 16-Day Strike Helps Public Workers Win Wage Increase

Matthew Blake

Dispatch

Can Socialists Win Elections in the U.S.?

Kshama Sawant of Seattle showed socialist victories are possible. Will they spread?

Bhaskar Sunkara and Micah Uetricht

What Do TV and Movies Get Right and Wrong About Prisons?

Matt Stroud

Viewpoint

The Social Movement Romance

Progressives can't let a love affair with social movements distract them from electoral politics.

Joel Bleifuss

Labor

‘From Bean to Cup,’ Starbucks Labor Action Heats Up

Michelle Chen

Feature

In Defense of Peeta Mellark

Teen girls have unruly, selfish desires, and that's OK.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

Eating Like There’s No Tomorrow

Meat consumption not only affects our environment, but also our access to antibiotics.

David Sirota

Feature

A Death Knell for the McJob?

Strikes in 100 cities signal a sea change in attitudes about low-wage work.

David Moberg

Labor

How Big Banks Shortchange Their Workers

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Don’t Feel Guilty About Chinese Worker Abuse

Get mad instead.

Kevin Slaten

Viewpoint

The Hypocritical Oath: Make a Healthy Profit

Practitioners of both traditional and alternative medicine rake in cash from the credulous.

Terry J. Allen

Labor

Unions Furious with Illinois Democrats Over Pension Cuts

David Moberg

Labor

Spy vs. Spy at Walmart

Barbara Garson

Feature

The ‘Axis of Evil’ Returns

The hypocritical U.S. policy towards Iran.

Noam Chomsky

Feature

How the FBI Conspired to Destroy the Black Panther Party

The assassination of BPP leader Fred Hampton in 1969 was just the beginning.

G. Flint Taylor