The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Viewpoint
Students Protest University of Chicago Budget Cuts, Say Admin Is “Acting Like a Corporation”
The students, some dressed in their graduation gowns, say their school's austerity measures are part of a broader pattern of corporatization in higher education.
Miriam Shestack
Feature
Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty and Other World-Renowned Economists Demand End to Greek Austerity
The economists called their letter a “plea for economic sanity and humanity.”
Martin de Bourmont
Culture
Austerity: The Real Winner of the UK Elections
May’s elections delivered the familiar thud of disappointment.
Jane Miller
Feature
Syriza Has No Choice: Greece Must Prepare to Leave the Eurozone
To break from the program of brutal austerity that has been imposed on Greece, its leaders have no choice but to take radical action.
Alexandros Orphanides
Labor
This Small Town Shows Why The Trans-Pacific Partnership Could Be A Disaster For American Workers
Peter Cole
Feature
Can Jeb Bush Separate Himself From the Bush Legacy?
If Jeb Bush wants to distance himself from the family name, he needs to reassess his brother's actions in Iraq.
David Sirota
Labor
Charter School Unions Are Spreading: Teachers at Elite Chicago Charter Network Vote to Unionize
Arielle Zionts
Labor
With Gawker Unionized, Your Favorite Hyperbolic Headlines Will Now Be Powered By Organized Labor
Alex Lubben
Labor
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Is Offering $100K Bounty for Leak of Entire Trans-Pacific Partnership Text
Martin de Bourmont
Labor
Authorized Guestworkers Actually Don’t Make More Money Than Undocumented Immigrants
Rachel Luban
Culture
Why Some Vets Want to Relive Vietnam
A new documentary follows the weird subculture of Vietnam War reenactors—some of whom were actually there.
Eileen Jones
Labor
Sao Paulo Teachers Vote to Continue Two-Month Strike
Steve Payne
Culture
Pigeons Under Late Capitalism
An existentialist Swedish movie occupies a completely original universe.
Michael Atkinson
Labor
Politicians Keep Promising Free Trade Agreements Can Protect Workers. We Should Stop Believing Them.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
Rural America
In Rare Move, the Justice Department Drafts a Bill of Its Own—To Ensure Native Voting Rights
Stephanie Woodard
Labor
30,000 Teachers Walk Out in Protest of Big Class Sizes in Washington State
Mario Vasquez
Viewpoint
The Collective That Saved Jazz
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians brought jazz back from the brink by connecting it to black struggle
Salim Muwakkil
Viewpoint
6 Lessons for the U.S. from Spain’s Democratic Revolution
How Spain’s 15M movement went from occupying city squares to city halls—without compromising its independence
Erica Sagrans
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