The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Silicon Valley Firm Learns That Wage Theft Doesn’t Count as “Innovation”

Brian Joseph

Feature

When Asked Whether He Was A Socialist in 1989, Carl Sagan Sounded a Lot Like Bernie Sanders in 2016

Carl Sagan is best known for bringing attention to the cosmos. But in this clip from CNN, he puts the spotlight on how the Unites States fails to take care of its own most vulnerable citizens.

Madeline Wensel

Comics

Magical Negro: The Gathering

Matt Bors

Feature

Exxon Covered Up Climate Change in the 1970s, But Its Behavior Today is Worse

The biggest fossil fuel company on Earth insists on finding and producing more fossil fuels

Bill McKibben

Culture

The Limits of New Dealism and Why We Need a New Progressive Theory of Political Economy

Historian Jefferson Cowie argues that the New Deal may have been a freak occurrence

Rich Yeselson

Feature

DeRay Mckesson’s Baltimore Mayoral Run Has a Teach For America Problem

The media's favorite poster child for Black Lives Matter, DeRay Mckesson, came up through the school privatization movement's favorite organization

Drew Franklin, AlterNet

Feature

Why Evangelicals Are Flocking To Donald Trump

Trump is beating Bible-thumping Ted Cruz among evangelicals. What do they see in a formerly pro-choice New York real estate mogul?

Theo Anderson

Feature

Repulsed by Pharma-Bro Martin Shkreli? Maybe You Also Hate Capitalism.

Far from being some kind of moral outlier, the pharma-bro embodies all of our economic system's defining characteristics.

Jesse Myerson

Rural America

Livestock and Wolves: A Guide to Nonlethal Tools and Methods to Reduce Conflicts

John Collins

Labor

Remember How Jeb Bush Dismantled Florida’s Department of Labor?

Spencer Woodman

After Decades In Solitary Confinement Judge Orders Last Member of Angola 3 Released

George Lavender

Culture

In Bed with the Surveillance State: Laura Poitras’ Intimate New Whitney Show

The filmographer best known for Citizenfour reveals the inside workings of our post-9/11 world

Liz Pelly

Feature

NY Times Rounds Up ‘Left-Leaning Economists’ Opposed to Bernie Sanders for a Unicorn Hunt

So slight is these economists' leftward lean that it would require very sensitive equipment to measure.

Doug Henwood

Feature

We’re Rethinking Prisons. Is It Time to Rethink Sex Offender Registries?

Criminal justice reform is in the air. But not for everyone.

Erica R. Meiners

Viewpoint

Bruce Rauner’s 1 Percent-Friendly Policies Are Making Things Worse for Illinois, Not Better

The near-billionaire governor keeps insisting his policies increase opportunities for Illinoisans. But the numbers tell a different story.

Marilyn Katz

Labor

As Long As the Supreme Court Is Setting Labor Policy, the Labor Movement Can Never Revive Itself

Joe Burns

Labor

Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS Group Now Has the Same Tax Designation as the Red Cross or Humane Society

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Feature

The Mainstream Media Barely Mentioned Bernie Sanders’ Recent Debate Comments on Henry Kissinger

On the major networks' newscasts, the exchange was only mentioned twice.

Jim Naureckas