The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

You Have Less Than Three Days To Bid on the Menstrual Blood Portrait of Donald Trump on eBay

Proceeds from the painting will go to an immigrant and workers rights organization in Portland.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

The Kabuki Theatre That Is the White House’s Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations

Jim Hightower

Viewpoint

The Refugee Crisis No One’s Talking About

The Central American refugee crisis is just as large and urgent as the Syrian refugee crisis. Why are we ignoring it?

Joseph Sorrentino

Dispatch

These Activists Are Trying To Solve the Housing Crisis—By Suing the Suburbs

Bay Area activists take a suburb to court, saying it refused to allow high-density housing

s.e. smith

Rural America

Rewild! Escape from Monomania

George Monbiot

Labor

Keeping the Memory of Working-Class Struggle Alive in Philadelphia

Jake Blumgart

Labor

Teamsters Say Union Buster C&S Wholesale Grocers Aims To Kill Jobs at Safeway

Bruce Vail

Viewpoint

Stuck in the Past: Democratic Candidates Spurn Internet Policy in First Debate

The 2016 Democratic candidates are letting the public down by ignoring the Internet. Here’s where they should start.

Daniel Massoglia

Rural America

How I Edited An Agricultural Paper (Once)

Mark Twain

Culture

The Most Disappointing Thing About Submission Isn’t Islamophobia, But Its Tedious Sexism

Any nuanced discussion about the intersection of cultures in Michel Houellebecq's new book is buried under its tiresome narration

Chris Lehmann

Labor

Can the Fight for $15 Replicate Its New York Wage Board Victory Around the Country?

Max Zahn

Labor

Leaked Documents Show How Harvard Administration Wants To Defeat Grad Student Union

Corey Robin

Labor

Unless You’re a Corporation, Nothing Good Will Come of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Viewpoint

Black Lives Matter Activists Declare Solidarity with Palestine

The statement revives the internationalism of the '60s and '70s, when black activists saw themselves as part of a global fight against Western colonialism

Salim Muwakkil

Labor

Bosses Must Keep Up Dues Checkoff after Contract Expires, Says Labor Board

Robert Schwartz

Viewpoint

Israel, Afghanistan and Drones: What the Democrats Didn’t Talk About Last Night

The Democrats' foreign policy discussions often took a hawkish line and avoided many of the most important issues that a future president will face.

Branko Marcetic

Feature

Bernie Sanders Won All Major Polls, But Corporate Media Declared Hillary Clinton the Debate Winner

Bernie Sanders by all objective measures "won" the debate.

Adam Johnson

Viewpoint

Why It Matters That Bernie Sanders Forced a Debate About Capitalism on National TV

Facing rampant inequality and poverty, a substantive debate on socialism versus capitalism is exactly what the United States needs right now.

Miles Kampf-Lassin