The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

Trump Bullies, Boasts and Bullshits in Bernie’s Burlington

Sitting in the audience was like watching blood dry—a convergence of the compellingly grotesque and the mind-numbingly boring.

Terry J. Allen

Feature

Big Money, Small Farmers and the Stubborn Persistence of Hunger

We haven't yet found the answer to the persistent problem of hunger around the world. Maybe we should ask radical peasants in the global south.

Max Ajl

Feature

Bernie Sanders Calls For an End to Mass Deportation Raids of Central American Immigrants

Sanders claims the Obama administration's raids of Central American families and children are inconsistent with American values—and must be stopped. Hillary Clinton's past support of such deportations sets her apart.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Labor

Chicago Teachers Union Joins Demand for Rahm Emanuel, Anita Alvarez To Resign

Micah Uetricht

Viewpoint

Expanding Housing Assistance to the Poor and Middle Class Is Actually Easier Than You Think

We'd just have to take away subsidies to people who are rich enough not to need them.

Daniel Hertz

Labor

UAW Overrules Academic Workers BDS Vote Against Israel Despite Finding Strong Turnout, No Misconduct

Mario Vasquez

Comics

YallQaeda and America’s Law Enforcement Priorities

Matt Bors

Rural America

A Farm Organizer Visits Fish Country: An Alaska Journal, Part II

Severine Von Tscharner Fleming

Rural America

A Farm Organizer Visits Fish Country: An Alaska Journal, Part III

Severine Von Tscharner Fleming

Feature

The Laquan McDonald Email Dump Shows Rahm Emanuel’s Administration in Crisis Mode

A guide to the documents released by City Hall in the aftermath of the Chicago police shooting.

Rebecca Burns

Culture

Without Explosives or Lightsabers, ‘Sisters’ is a Quiet-er but No Less Feminist Film

In co-opting the party narrative for a feminist audience, Sisters does for comedies what the new Star Wars has done for action movies.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

The Bankruptcy of India’s Economic and Political “Miracle”

India is neither the vibrant global South democracy nor the poster child for globalization's benefits that global political elites have insisted it is for over a decade.

Kamil Ahsan

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