The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

If Education Reformers Are Concerned About a Teacher Shortage, Then Why Are They Attacking Teachers?

Sarah Lahm

Rural America

Lakota Lead the Fight Against the Dakota Access Pipeline

Jason Coppola, Truthout

Viewpoint

We Won’t Improve Education By Making Teachers Hate Their Jobs

How can you improve education by attacking educators?

Jeff Bryant

Feature

Lawmakers Push for Chicago Police Accountability With New Legislation in Springfield

New legislation from Illinois' state capital wants to change the way police misconduct is handled.

Adeshina Emmanuel

Labor

Reformers Aim To Shake Up the New York City Teachers Union

Ari Paul

Feature

Ilan Pappe: Israel Is the Last Remaining, Active Settler-Colonialist Project

Ilan Pappe discusses Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders and the post-Zionist movement.

Eli Massey

Rural America

Creating and Maintaining the Plantation World in the Mississippi Delta

Cynthia M. Duncan

Culture

Even a Time Finance Columnist Is Now Questioning American Capitalism

Rana Foroohar's "Makers and Takers" breaks down crisis-prone U.S. economy

Chris Lehmann

Feature

The Most Important Thing Missing from Coverage of Syria: The Perspectives of Syrians Themselves

Given that Syrians are the ones most affected by the conflict, it's remarkable how little we hear from them.

Eli Massey

Rural America

God’s Red Pencil? CRISPR and the 3 Myths of Precise Genome Editing

Jonathan R. Latham

Labor

Why I Voted ‘Yes’ To Authorize My Union at CUNY To Call a Strike

Corey Robin

Labor

Garment Factory Workers in Southern California Are Calling for a Boycott of American Apparel

Mario Vasquez

Feature

Why Activists Today Should Still Care About the 40-Year-Old Church Committee Report

The Church Committee Report reveals the lengths the government was willing to go in order to crush grassroots activism and spy on American citizens.

Branko Marcetic

Dispatch

Is Bernie Sanders Right That It’s Time to Phase Out Nuclear Energy?

30 years after Chernobyl, some say we need nuclear power to stop climate change.

Will Boisvert and Jim Riccio

Labor

How Can the Fight for 15 Move From Winning Wage Increases to Winning a Union?

Max Zahn

Viewpoint

Ted Cruz’s ‘Lucifer’ Problem

If no Senators, Republican or Democrat, like Ted Cruz, why should American voters?

Susan J. Douglas

Labor

As Verizon Strike Enters Its Fourth Week, Local Unions Take the Lead in Solidarity

Dan DiMaggio

Rural America

Community Override: When State Legislatures Preempt Democracy

Thomas Linzey