The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

IKEA Says It’s “Socially Responsible.” So Why Are Workers Accusing It of Union-Busting?

Bruce Vail

Labor

Behind the Business Attire, Many Bank Workers Earn Poverty Wages

Mario Vasquez

Labor

UE Organizing Director Bob Kingsley Prepares To Step Down, But Lefty Union Shows No Signs of Slowing

Bruce Vail

Labor

Home Care Workers Could Soon See a Major Raise In Their Wages

David Moberg

Feature

Appalachia’s Coal Industry is Collapsing—But the Mountains Aren’t Coming Back

The fall of West Virginia's coal mono-industry leaves the area without its peaks and forests. Only an uncertain future remains.

Laura Gottesdiener

Labor

‘The Teacher Shortage’ Is No Accident—It’s the Result of Corporate Education Reform Policies

Kevin Prosen

Labor

McDonald’s Workers Take Fight for $15 to Brazil, Accuse Company of “Cannibal Capitalism”

David Moberg

Rural America

Rural Spain: The Challenge for Podemos, the Country’s New Left

Tomás de León Sotelo

Labor

Chicago Parents Enter Week 2 of Hunger Strike Protesting Corporate Ed Reform and Dyett HS Closure

Yana Kunichoff

Feature

Selling Off New Orleans: Gentrification and the Loss of Community 10 Years After Katrina

How long-time residents feel about the new Louisiana purchase

Fatima Shaik

Feature

Slavoj Zizek: The Greek Apocalypse: Versailles or Brest-Litovsk?

A response to my critics and the case for a guerrilla war within the Eurozone

Slavoj Žižek

Feature

‘The Wire’ Humanized Urban Black People. In ‘Show Me a Hero,’ David Simon Humanizes White Racists.

In a post-Ferguson America, David Simon's Show Me a Hero feels sadly dated.

Maya Dukmasova

Feature

Deez Nuts Endorses Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Presidential Nomination

He also endorsed, perhaps not surprisingly, himself for the general election.

Micah Uetricht

Labor

Washington Supreme Court Rules All SeaTac Workers Must Be Paid $15 Minimum Wage

Keisa Reynolds

Feature

The New Anthems of Resistance: Hip-Hop and Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter and hip-hop have taken the omnipresent tensions around racism in America and put them into the center of mainstream consciousness.

Alexander Billet

Feature

Bernie Sanders Is Drawing Massive Crowds Around the Country—No Big Deal, Says Washington Post

Mainstream commentators are insistent that the outpouring of enthusiasm for Sanders' progressive vision is meaningless.

Michael Tkaczevski

Labor

NLRB Declines To Rule On Northwestern Football Players’ Union, Setting Back Player Organizing

David Moberg

Labor

Workers Are Losing Manufacturing Jobs Because of Policy, Not NYT’s Mysterious “Tectonic Forces”

Dean Baker