The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

The Toxic Chemical Causing Lung Disease Among Both Workers Making and Users Vaping E-Cigarettes

Elizabeth Grossman

Comics

Adolf Trump

Matt Bors

Viewpoint

Why We Can’t Bridge the Gulf Between Donald Trump Supporters and the Rest of Us

When one side believes poor people, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people and others deserve rights and the other doesn't, how can we possibly bridge the gap?

Waleed Shahid

Viewpoint

I Saw Disturbing Racism at Yale After 9/11. Sadly, It Seems Little Has Changed.

When will our universities stop treating students of color as throwaway items in the grooming of privileged white students?

Saqib Bhatti

Feature

Bernie Sanders Just Won TIME’s Person of the Year Reader’s Poll—And It Wasn’t Even Close

The democratic socialist came out far, far ahead of both Clinton and Trump.

Lauren Kaori Gurley

Culture

The Wrong Kind of Solidarity: The UK’s Decision to Join the Air Strikes on Syria

Why bombing Syria in an attempt to weaken ISIS is not the answer to the Paris attacks.

Jane Miller

Feature

What Corporate America Would Do If It Really Cared About Climate Change

CEOs are professing to care about the climate. But they're still funding Republican climate-change deniers.

Joe Conason

Rural America

Pesticide Industry Joins New York’s Pollinator Task Force—Bad News for Bees

Tracy Frisch

Labor

When Labor Groups and Silicon Valley Capitalists Join Forces to “Disrupt” Protections for Employees

Jay Youngdahl and Darwin BondGraham

Rural America

Political Economy

Mark Twain

Labor

The Entire Labor Movement Should Be Paying Attention to Wisconsin’s Kohler Strike

Joe Burns

Feature

Chicago’s Racial Justice Movement Can’t Stop at the Resignation of Police Chief Garry McCarthy

McCarthy's resignation should be seen as the beginning, not the end.

Charles Brown

Feature

Barbara Ehrenreich: America’s Blue-Collar White People Are Dying at an Astounding Rate

Could the bump in white working class deaths be the result of widespread despair?

Barbara Ehrenreich

Rural America

An Interview with the 15-Year-Old Who is Suing Obama for Not Stopping Climate Change

Rural America In These Times

Dispatch

How One City Is Making Sure Bosses Comply With Wage Theft and Paid Sick Leave Laws

Seattle's labor regulators are now under one roof.

Jake Blumgart

Labor

Black Friday Protests: A New Holiday for Progressives?

David Moberg

Feature

The Robots Are Coming. Whether They’ll Be Job Terminators or Job Transformers Is Up to Us.

Don't fear the robot.

David Moberg

Viewpoint

For Laquan McDonald and All Victims of Police Brutality, We Have To Win

If the progressive movement can't organize itself to fight back against racism and injustice in Chicago and around the country, police murders like those of Laquan McDonald, Freddie Gray and Rekia Boyd will never stop.

Katelyn Johnson