The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

Why Canada’s Most Progressive Major Party Didn’t Make Big Gains at the Polls

While the New Democratic Party campaigned on a more progressive platform, the Liberals campaigned to the left just enough to sow doubt about the NDP—while the NDP moved to the center.

Gerard Di Trolio

Feature

Lessons in Nonviolent Palestinian Resistance From the First Intifada: An Interview with Mubarak Awad

Mubarak Awad was one of the main organizers of the nonviolent resistance during the First Intifada and continues to practice strategic forms of nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation.

Waleed Shahid

Clinton Campaign Will Stop Taking Cash from Private Prison Companies’ PACs and Lobbyists

George Lavender

Feature

Why Are U.S. Special Forces Operations Expanding Across the Globe?

This year alone, U.S. Special Operations forces have been deployed to a record-shattering 147 countries—75% of the nations on the planet.

Nick Turse

Feature

Faced With Exorbitant Utility Costs, New York State Residents Fight To Keep The Lights On

A housing rights organization in Poughkeepsie, New York, stands with its community against a utility company's attempt to disconnect low-income family homes.

Laura Gottesdiener

Dispatch

A Bill of Rights That Puts Workers Above Corporations

It's up to the voters of Spokane, Washington.

Simon Davis-Cohen

Prison Phone Call Rates Capped

George Lavender

Labor

The Complicated Story Behind Those Images of Terrified Air France Executives Fleeing Workers

Robert Zaretsky

Labor

Union Democracy Pioneer Herman Benson, Defender of Rank-and-File Labor Reformers, Turns 100

Mark Brenner

Labor

SEIU, IBEW Locals in New Hampshire Announce Bernie Sanders Endorsement

Mario Vasquez

Rural America

Why the Left Isn’t Talking About Rural American Poverty

Lauren Kaori Gurley

Viewpoint

The Republican Congressional Caucus Has Devolved Into a Comedy of Errors

The antics of the Republican congressional caucus would be funny if they weren't affecting the orderly functioning of our federal government.

Jim Hightower

Labor

With Traditional Unions on the Decline, Can Members-Only Unions Breathe Life Back Into Labor?

Moshe Marvit and Leigh Anne Schriever

Comics

RIP Jose Guerrero

Eric Garcia

Comics

RIP Jose Guerrero

Eric Garcia

Comics

Canadian Superiority

Matt Bors

Feature

At Colleges, Running Backs Get All the Greenbacks, While Academic Students Fight Over Crumbs

College football has become a bloated, multi-million dollar business, subverting the original mission of universities—education.

Gilbert M. Gaul

Feature

For Israel, ‘Human Rights’ Has Meant the Right To Dominate Palestinians

The idea of human rights has too often been put to use by perpetrators rather than victims.

Belen Fernandez