The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

Even One of the Koch Brothers Thinks We Need To End Corporate Welfare

Charles Koch argued for an end to preferential treatment for corporations—but did he mean it?

David Sirota

Feature

Iran and the Myth of Anti-Semitism

Iranian rhetoric isn't anti-Semitic—it's anti-Zionist.

Roy Isacowitz

Culture

Why the Youngest Country on Earth Can’t Escape the Yoke of Colonialism

'We Come as Friends' captures the Western exploitation of South Sudan from the moment of its conception

Michael Atkinson

Feature

The Amazing Plasticity of American Statecraft

Think of Washington as a poker player that gets dealt a hand consisting of half the deck: no matter how sloppily and stupidly it plays its cards, it is hard for it to lose.

Chase Madar

Feature

How the Government Fast-Tracked Shell’s Arctic Drilling

After Royal Dutch Shell's mishaps in the Arctic in 2012, the Obama administration indicated a major rethink of the approval process was in order—but instead, Shell got another rubber stamp.

Kamil Ahsan

Feature

A New Poll Has Bernie Sanders Leading Hillary Clinton by 7 Percent in the New Hampshire Primary

New Hampshire seems to be feeling the Bern.

Marc Daalder

Viewpoint

Donald Trump Is the Most Honest Candidate in American Politics Today

Where other candidates appeal to a fictitious unity or pretense of moral integrity, he displays the power of inequality.

Jodi Dean

Labor

Union Members Seem To Want Bernie Sanders Over Hillary Clinton. Will Labor Leadership Follow Them?

Mario Vasquez

Feature

They Voted ‘No’ to Austerity. They Got ‘Yes’ Anyway. What Do Greeks Think About Tsipras Now?

We asked Athenians on the street how they feel about the Syriza leader's acceptance of the EU's terms and the lean times ahead.

Tomás Lynch

Feature

Feticide Laws Are Disproportionately Used Against Women of Color

Purvi Patel's 20-year prison sentence for a miscarriage is part of a larger pattern.

Rachelle Hampton

Video

Bernie Sanders Now Has a Rap Theme Song—And It’s Not Bad

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Rural America

Out of Site, Out of Mine: Who Pays When Toxic Sludge Escapes?

John Collins

Labor

Indiana University Health Nurse Who Wanted to Unionize Fired—Then Un-Fired

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Feature

Bernie Sanders Speaks to 28,000 People in Portland, While Hillary Hosts $2,700-a-Head Fundraiser

The contrast between candidates could not be more stark.

Zaid Jilani, Alternet

Feature

The Union Behind the Biggest Campaign Against Walmart in History May Be Throwing in the Towel. Why?

With major cuts rumored, the future of the campaign against America's largest private employer is uncertain.

David Moberg

Feature

Yes, ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ Is Empowering. No, Having Sex with Your Stepdaughter Is Not Okay.

The film is rightly being cheered for showing a 15-year-old girl claiming sexual power. But the film—and its rave reviews—sometimes shy away from how rape culture and patriarchy can pervert that claim.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

California First State To Pay For Prisoner’s Sex Affirmation Surgery

George Lavender

Dispatch

The Bernie Debate: Would Sanders Advance Feminism and Racial Justice Better Than Clinton?

Feminists debate symbolism, socialism and racial politics in the presidential race

Kathleen Geier