The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

Ta-Nehisi Coates, James Baldwin and the “Brawl of Ancestors”

Critics who simply claim that "Coates is no Baldwin" are ignoring what can be a comparison that allows us to understand both writers more deeply.

Andy Seal

Labor

Univ. of California Academic Workers’ Union Calls on AFL-CIO To Terminate Police Union’s Membership

Mario Vasquez

Culture

In Flint, Michigan, the Wrecking Ball Has Not Meant Progress

Andrew Highsmith charts the rise and fall of Flint, a city deserted by industry and divided by segregation.

Daniel Hertz

Rural America

Factory Farm Runoff Is Polluting Lake Erie, But CAFO Sewers Are Not the Answer

Laura Orlando

Labor

Did ICE Violate Its Own Deportation Guidelines in Arresting Chicago-Area Unionized Meatpackers?

Yana Kunichoff

Viewpoint

The Other 2016 Presidential Candidates Are Saying Things That Are Basically As Crazy As Donald Trump

Trump is not the only presidential hopeful willing to make utterly mind-boggling statements.

David Sirota

Viewpoint

Slavoj Zizek: How Alexis Tsipras and Syriza Outmaneuvered Angela Merkel and the Eurocrats

The rebels in Greece are waging a patient guerrilla war against financial occupation.

Slavoj Žižek

Comics

Not a Cartoon About Donald Trump

Matt Bors

Labor

Grocery Chain A&P’s Financial Meltdown Could Leave Thousands of Union Workers Jobless

Bruce Vail

Feature

Kropotkin on the Hudson

A collective in Saugerties, New York, is trying to live by the teachings of 19th century Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin.

Polly Howells

Rural America

Will Wisconsin Be the Next Rice Capital of North America?

John Collins

Dispatch

The Brooklyn Tenant Union That’s Fighting Gentrification Through Collective Bargaining

For the past two years, the Crown Heights Tenant Union of Brooklyn has used collective bargaining strategies to win victories around rent control and tenant protection laws.

Ethan Corey

Labor

Can the UAW Ditch Its Two-Tier Wage System in This Year’s Contract Negotiations?

Alexandra Bradbury

Feature

Iranian Dissidents Explain Why They Support the Nuclear Deal

We know what politicians from the U.S. to Israel think about the Iran nuclear deal. How about asking some opponents of Iran's regime?

Danny Postel

Labor

DOL Decision Could Mean the End of Wage Theft Through “Independent Contractor” Misclassification

David Moberg

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