The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Dispatch

Why Compton Students Are Suing Their Schools

Nine in 10 6th grade students in the area have witnessed or experienced a violent crime. Is trauma counseling part of their right to an equal education?

Ethan Corey

Rural America

The Grouse That Roared: Will Voluntary Conservation Efforts Work in the Intermountain West?

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Viewpoint

Raise a Glass to These Progressive Victories in 2015

From the death of the Keystone XL pipeline to Fight for 15 victories, progressives made have major strides this year--thanks to groundwork laid over the past decade.

James Thindwa

Rural America

Living in the Shadow of Slurry: The Fight Against Coal in West Virginia

Junior Walk

Labor

The Radical Collective Action of Disney’s “Newsies” Is Still Relevant Today

Matt Hartman

Feature

Slavoj Zizek: The Need to Traverse the Fantasy

A call to mobilize Europe's radical-emancipatory tradition, and why we need a solidarity of struggles, not a "dialogue of cultures"

Slavoj Žižek

Culture

Why Philanthropy Actually Hurts Rather Than Helps Some of the World’s Worst Problems

"Philanthrocapitalists" can't resolve the problems created by capitalism.

George Joseph

Labor

A Holiday Recipe for Economic Equality—in Just 7 Simple Steps!

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Viewpoint

The New Star Wars Film is the Same Old Hackneyed Nonsense—Please Don’t Kill Me for Saying It

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens racking up more and more acclaim, have audiences forgotten the narrative complexity and moral ambiguity cinema is capable of?

Eileen Jones

Labor

How One NYC Trafficking Survivor Went from ‘Slavery’ to Being Her Own Boss—Thanks to a Co-op

Abigail Savitch-Lew

Labor

OSHA Finds $12,000 Worth of Citations at Hotel Where Workers Report Dealing with Blood, Needles

s.e. smith

Labor

How Free Agency Changed the Course of Baseball’s Labor History

Jon Shelton

Comics

Honest Debate Is Harder To Get Than Guns

Matt Bors

Labor

Students Say Loyola University Chicago Admins Punishing Participants in On-Campus Worker Protest

Branko Marcetic

Feature

The Rise of Podemos In Spain’s Election Shows How Much Trouble the Establishment Is In

From Spain’s “Nueva Política” to Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, outsider candidates and parties are catching fire, creating new spaces for political revolution.

Erica Sagrans

Rural America

The Tricky Relationship Between Marijuana and American Indians

Winona LaDuke

Culture

Austerity Is Stranger Than Fiction

Filmed in Portugal in 2013 and 2014, Miguel Gomes' new documentary Arabian Nights tries to make sense of life under IMF rules.

Michael Atkinson

Rural America

Native American Graphic Novel Selected As Among Year’s Best

Stephanie Woodard