The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Labor
Spreading a Minimum Wage Increase from Los Angeles to the Whole Country
Martha Sanchez
Viewpoint
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” Forever Changes the Meaning of ‘The American Dream’
How to make Americans accept that their country was built and sustained on white supremacist plunder? Write like Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Salim Muwakkil
Labor
Thousands of Garment Factory Workers Across Cambodia Are Fainting on the Job
Michael Arria
Labor
Why I Introduced a Motion Against the Confederate Flag at the NEA Convention
Fred Klonsky
Feature
Underneath the Laughs, ‘Trainwreck’ Is Just Another Regressive Rom Com
For all its wit and unabashed vulgarity, Amy Schumer's film follows a tired formula
Eileen Jones
Viewpoint
Taxing the Rich is the Only Real Solution to Illinois’ Budget Deficit
Corporate tax loopholes have been very effective at draining at least a billion dollars a year out of public funds and redirecting it into idle private profits.
Jamie Merchant
Labor
In the Information Economy, Workers Are Far From Obsolete
Doug Henwood
Labor
N.M. Field and Dairy Laborers Win Right To Workers’ Comp—Court Calls Exemption ‘Absurd’
Joseph Sorrentino
Dispatch
The Climate-Change Movement Is Winning the Argument—Now It Must Force the Government To Act
How can we turn up the heat on Washington.
Kate Aronoff
Rural America
The Stolen Children of Maine: Native Wabanaki Seek Truth, Reconciliation Amidst a Cultural Genocide
Dayton Martindale
Dispatch
How Columbia Became the First University to Divest from Private Prisons
Thanks to relentless student pressure, more than a year of rallies, protests and sit-ins proved too much to ignore.
Dayton Martindale
Labor
The ‘Nightmarish’ Boston Hotel Where Workers Have To Deal with Vomit, Blood-Soaked Carpets, Needles
s.e.smith
Video
How “Disaster Capitalism” Is Driving the Discussion of Municipal Bankruptcy in Cities Like Chicago
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Viewpoint
Israel’s Hostility Toward Iran Deal Is Not Really About a Nuclear Weapon
There is no place in Israeli geo-strategic thinking for a militarily and diplomatically powerful Iran—with or without the bomb.
Roy Isacowitz
Feature
Waiting for the Next Israeli Assault in Gaza
Before homes are even rebuilt in the ruins of the Gaza Strip, another war looms.
Max Blumenthal
“The Punishment Simply Does Not Fit The Crime”: President Obama on Criminal Justice Reform (VIDEO)
George Lavender
Culture
A Quiet Return to the Killing Fields of Indonesia
Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing focused on the perpetrators of genocide; in the sequel, the stage is shared by traumatized survivors.
Michael Atkinson
Labor
How Migrant Farmworkers Are Cross-Pollinating Strategies—And Winning
Sonia Singh
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