The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

If We Can’t Ban Guns, Can We Make Them Safer?

As mass shootings mount, some activists believe they've found a smart way around the political gridlock.

Marc Daalder

Viewpoint

Robert Reich: Why Hillary Clinton Is Wrong for Refusing To Resurrect Glass-Steagall

Resurrection of the Glass-Steagall Act has become an important policy difference between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Robert Reich

Feature

Margaret Atwood on Climate Change, Her New Book and Why Socialists Are Better with Budgets

We asked the speculative fiction writer about this month's Canadian elections and (relatedly?) whether humanity is doomed.

Jessica Stites

Rural America

Greasing the System: Why Corporate ‘Rights’ Matter

Thomas Linzey

Labor

33 Workers Dead After U.S. Cargo Ship Lost at Sea. Could It Have Been Prevented?

Bruce Vail

Labor

The Fight for $15 Is Raising Wages. Now It’s Time for Step 2: Unions.

David Moberg

Culture

The Neverending Presidency: An Unfettered Look at How Democracy Lost to Mugabe

Camilla Nielsson’s new documentary, Democrats, is a study in how a dictatorship can weather a 'democratic transition'

Michael Atkinson

Feature

New Hillary Clinton Emails: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Sidney Blumenthal Urged Libya Military Action

The most recent release of Clinton's emails show the two liberal advisors strongly encouraging U.S. intervention against Libya.

Branko Marcetic

Viewpoint

14 Years After the U.S. Invasion, the War in Afghanistan is Impossible to Justify

Afghanistan is yet another bloody quagmire for the United States that has helped create more rather than less dangerous enemies.

Marc Daalder

Rural America

The Puppetmasters of Academia: What the New York Times Left Out of Its GMO Exposé

Jonathan R. Latham

Culture

When the Bank Robs You

Mehrsa Baradaran's How the Other Half Banks tells the history of banks robbing from the poor and giving to the rich--and explains how we can stop it.

David Dayen

Comics

The Truth About Pope Francis’s Communist Abduction

Matt Bors

Labor

Wave of Digital Media Organizing Continues as Al Jazeera America Goes Union

Mario Vasquez

Labor

Rich Guy’s Inequality Fix: Raises for Workers. Just Kidding! It’s ‘Give Free Stuff to Rich Guys’

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Feature

Remembering—and Forgetting—the Lessons of Chicago’s 1995 Heat Wave

The reissue of sociologist Eric Klinenberg's classic book on the deadly heat wave should remind us that such disasters are anything but natural.

Daniel Hertz

Viewpoint

The (R)evolutionary Vision and Contagious Optimism of Grace Lee Boggs

Boggs' love for humanity ran strong and deep, serving as a generative force for creating change.

Barbara Ransby

Culture

How California Birthed the Modern Right Wing

Many of 20th-century conservatism's tricks were honed in 1930s agribusiness's fight against farmworkers

Chris Lehmann

Labor

Adjuncts Win Union Contract at Maryland Institute College of Art

Bruce Vail