The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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

Feature

“Privatization is not the solution”: Michigan Activists Fight for Water Justice

A six-day march from Detroit to Flint by a coalition of community organizations recently protested issues of water justice facing Michigan residents.

Ashley Bohrer

Labor

Calm Down: SCOTUS’s ‘Friedrichs’ Case Won’t Mean the End of the American Labor Movement

David Moberg

Labor

“We Need to Stop Being Nice”: IL Labor, Community Activists Push Progressive Budget Crisis Solutions

Simon Swartzman

Culture

The Stanford Prison Experiment Actually Shows We Are Not All Born Potential Tyrants

The film adaptation of the Stanford prison experiment explores little of its ambiguity.

Eileen Jones

Comics

The Real Truth About Bill Cosby

Matt Bors