The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

This is Huge: NLRB Rules Graduate Student Workers Can Unionize

David Moberg

Feature

Robert Reich: Why a Single-Payer Healthcare System is Inevitable

Private markets for health insurance pose a structural problem, and Obamacare can't fix it.

Robert Reich

Feature

Slavoj Žižek: Clinton, Trump and the Triumph of Global Capitalism

Why the Hillary Clinton consensus is a threat to democracy—and the Left.

Slavoj Žižek

Viewpoint

Hillary: Here’s a Stake, Find Neoliberalism’s Heart

We need Clinton to take up Bernie Sanders' progressive charge and end the long reign of market fundamentalism.

Susan J. Douglas

Feature

How Past Victories For Gender and Racial Justice Made U.S. Olympic Success Possible

Women and African-American athletes show us what’s at stake in this year's election.

Marilyn Katz

Rural America

As Pipeline Demonstration Grows, North Dakota Authorities Pull Drinking Water from Camp

Lauren McCauley

Labor

We Are Witnessing a New Age of Social Justice Movements—And That Includes Labor

Shaun Richman

Rural America

How FDA Deception Promotes Genetically Engineered Food

Steven M. Druker

Comics

What Trump’s Immigrant Test Will Look Like

Matt Bors

Feature

The National Security “Experts” Denouncing Trump Are a Who’s Who of Disastrous Neocons

The enemies of my enemy may be war criminals.

Rebecca Gordon

Labor

How We Won a Contract Against Austerity at CUNY

Barbara Bowen

Feature

20 Years After Welfare Reform, The Fight to Destigmatize Poor Black Mothers Continues

An interview with Maureen Taylor, a longtime economic justice advocate and chair of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization.

Premilla Nadasen

Culture

In Ixcanul, Guatemala’s First-Ever Oscar Entry, Feminism Erupts in a Small Mayan Community

Filmed entirely in Kaqchikel, Jayro Bustamante’s new movie explores a clash between reproductive rights and tradition.

Michael Atkinson

Rural America

Rural Stories Making Headlines (August 21, 2016)

Rural America In These Times

Rural America

Why Both Sides of the Sugar Tax Debate Have It Wrong

Victoria Albert

Feature

The U.S. Is Ending the Use of Federal Private Prisons—But That Won’t End Mass Incarceration

The news is a welcome reminder that marching in the streets can lead to reforms down the road.

Julia Clark-Riddell

Labor

SEIU’s “Future Fighters”: “We need a plan for racial justice in every union”

Chris Brooks

Culture

Can There Be a Party of the Left in Britain?

Party brass may not like it, but Jeremy Corbyn's popularity could herald a new era for Labour.

Jane Miller