Politics

‘Boots on the Ground’ in Syria?

War doesn’t dirty only one pair of shoes.

Daisy Hernández

Knights of the Progressive Roundtable

Monthly meetings give members of the public an intimate audience with Congressional representatives.

Pamela Powers Hannley

Will Congress Block an Attack on Syria?

Congress members are clamoring to be consulted, but few publicly oppose intervention.

Cole Stangler

Chicago Teachers Lead the Way

The CTU plans to change the political landscape in Chicago.

Joel Bleifuss

Education: Every American’s Right

Lowering college costs will restore access to the American Dream.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Looking for Fraud in All the Wrong Places

Republicans say they're slashing food stamps because of fraud. So why are they expanding a much more fraud-prone program?

Cole Stangler

Tar Sands Drones Are On Their Way

The energy industry wants to use unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor pipelines.

Cole Stangler

Rats in the Laboratory of Democracy

State legislatures are gaining power, but not for the people.

Chris Lehmann

Young Tea Party ‘Rebels’ Burn Fake ‘Obamacare Cards’

A well-funded Tea Party think tank hopes to convince 3 million young people to forgo subsidized health insurance.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

From Hope to Disposability

50 years after the March on Washington, we are living with the civil rights movement’s defeats.

Martha Biondi

Our Gilded Age Education System

The ongoing education debate has little to do with schools and everything to do with money.

David Sirota

MBAs Without Borders

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

Cole Stangler

Freedom in the Cloud

Assange, Manning and Snowden are the new heroes of the era of digitalized control.

Slavoj Žižek

Is There Detroit After Bankruptcy?

Why shock therapy won't reverse the Motor City's decline.

Ryan Felton

Why Hillary Terrifies the GOP

Good old-fashioned misogyny just doesn't play the way it used to.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

A Half Century After Detroit Uprising, City Still Stranded by Capitalism and Federal Government

How federal policy and Big Auto drove black blight and white flight.

Marilyn Katz

The GOP’s Summer Break Plans

The Republican guide to secret meetings during Congress's five-week sojourn.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Rebels With a Far-Right Cause

A new generation of libertarians is being groomed for Republican leadership.

Cole Stangler