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Better Treatment of Trans Women by Philly Police Could Have Averted Brutal Murder, Says Activist

Melissa Gira Grant

Feature

Class Wars in Space

Elysium tackles the important issues of our time with the subtlety of an evil robot with a sledgehammer.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Comics

Egypt’s Solution

Jeff Danziger

Labor

Lawsuit to Keep 49 Chicago Schools Open Faces Setback

Kari Lydersen

Feature

Orange Is the New Black, Episode 4: Prison Isn’t a Pause Button

Piper's old life recedes, and a much richer world emerges.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

MBAs Without Borders

Will a backroom trade deal let the corporate class skip the immigration line?

Cole Stangler

Breaking Bad Recap, Season 5, Episode 9: Blood Money

Lindsay Beyerstein

Feature

Non-Profits Take To the Air

New FCC rules will enable hundreds of community organizations to apply for FM licenses.

Cole Stangler

Comics

danziger cartoon

Jeff Danziger

Labor

UAW President Bob King On What Unions Can Do For Detroit

Molly M. Ginty

Dispatch

The Devil’s in the Details

If the Senate's bill is so good, why are immigrant rights groups so unhappy?

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Supersize Those Wages, McDonald’s

McDonald's meager wages hurt taxpayers as well as workers.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Labor

Oil Drilling Boom Boosts Boilermakers, Other Shipyard Unions

Bruce Vail

Feature

John Lewis’ Advice for Young Activists: March

In a new graphic memoir, the civil rights leader shows youth how to get in trouble--good trouble.

Sarah Jaffe

Comics

Cultural Differences

Matt Bors

Labor

Chicago Teachers’ Lesson of Social Justice Unionism Goes National

Samantha Winslow

Judge Rules Stop-and-Frisk Unconstitutional; Bloomberg Still Defends It

Jeff Schuhrke

Feature

Attack of the Tweeting Women

In Episode 5, Sorkin tackles topics (feminism, the Internet) that The Newsroom should never, ever touch.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle