The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor
With New Overtime Rule, President Obama May Have Given an Estimated 5 Million Workers a Raise
David Moberg
Feature
The Moynihan Report Is Turning 50. Its Ideas on Black Poverty Were Wrong Then and Are Wrong Now.
African-Americans' family structure is not the “master problem” of racial inequality in America.
Daniel Geary
Labor
Why Republicans Should End Their Losing Battle Against Obamacare
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
Labor
Undocumented Restaurant Workers Learn to Fight Back in ‘The Hand that Feeds’
Micah Uetricht
Comics
The Depravity of White Culture
Matt Bors
Labor
How Unions Are Preparing for the Threat of Right To Work in the Public Sector
Samantha Winslow
Feature
Last Week’s Other Big SCOTUS Ruling: Upholding a Critical Piece of the Fair Housing Act
"It's a pretty resounding win for civil rights law."
Dan Schneider
Feature
How the Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Hand Corporations the Reins to Our Government
Provisions of the trade agreement could provide corporations with even greater influence over domestic policy decisions.
David Sirota
Feature
Radical Rapper Killer Mike Just Endorsed Bernie Sanders for President
The outspoken and critically-acclaimed rap artist's support is a good sign for Sanders's presidential campaign.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Feature
The NYT Is Wrong: Greece Shouldn’t Accept Endless Depression Because Default Might Be Painful
The paper of record says Greeks should look to the example of Argentina's 2001 default. But that default actually seems to have tremendously benefited the country.
Dean Baker
Dispatch
How Black Lives Matter Has Spread Into a Global Movement to End Racist Policing
The next Baltimore could be somewhere in Europe.
Amien Essif
Rural America
Urban Gardening in Chicago: New Roots for an Old Community
Maia Welbel
Labor
Boston Airport Workers Strike, Join Growing Campaign to Unionize Subcontracted Airport Employees
Michael Arria
Labor
Once Again, Bosses Are Trying To Eliminate New Protections for Guestworkers
Rachel Luban
The Filmmakers Behind ‘Criminal Queers’ Explain Why “Queer Liberation is Prison Abolition”
Toshio Meronek
Labor
Labor for Bernie Kickstarts Effort to Get Unions Behind Sanders With Nearly 2,000 Union Backers
Mario Vasquez
Feature
How Activists Won Reparations for the Survivors of Chicago Police Department Torture
A history of the movement to make Chicago pay for the crimes of former police commander Jon Burge.
Flint Taylor
Labor
In China, Walmart Is Unionized, But Workers Have No Power on the Job
Bruce Vail
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