The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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

Labor

Our Response to the Offshoring of 600 Oreos Jobs Should Be International Solidarity, Not a Boycott

Toby Chow

Labor

After Polling Its Members, Communications Workers of America Endorses Bernie Sanders

Steve Payne

Feature

The U.S. Military Is Expanding Its Secret Drone Warfare in Africa to Combat the Rise of ISIS

American efforts are underway to create a string of drone bases in Africa.

Nick Turse

Rural America

Fracking Bans Are Teaching Americans That They Are Not as Free as They Think

Thomas Linzey

Culture

Europe, A Love Story: Michael Moore’s Latest Film Tries To Sell Social Democracy to America

In 'Where To Invade Next,' Moore marches around Europe with a flag on his shoulder, to dubious effect.

Jeremy Gantz

Labor

Blame Anyone but the Corporations: GOP Fear-Mongering Distracts from the TPP

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Feature

8 Terrible Things About the Trans-Pacific Partnership

It's no wonder the Obama administration tried to keep this secret—the corporate-friendly trade agreement, decoded.

David Moberg

Conviction Vacated in 28-Year Innocence Case

Susan Greene, Colorado Independent

Culture

The Blacklist in ‘Trumbo’ Didn’t Just Restrict Free Speech. It Changed How We Talk About Freedom.

Trumbo misses the opportunity to tell a more faithful, radical narrative of cinema's Red Scare and its resistors.

Andrew Paul

Labor

U.S. To Increase Worker Protection From Deadly Silica Dust for First Time in More Than 40 Years

Elizabeth Grossman

Labor

In Landslide Election, University of Chicago Adjuncts Vote to Form Union

Lauren Kaori Gurley

Viewpoint

The Paris Climate Agreement Sets Ambitious Goals, But Countries Won’t Achieve Them—Without Us

COP21's heart may have been in the right place, but by the numbers, the sum is still climate catastrophe.

Tom Ladendorf