The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Feature
When the War on Drugs in Mexico Comes Back Home to the U.S.
Like the Islamic State, the Mexican drug cartels' power has increased as the result of disastrous U.S. policies.
Rebecca Gordon
Feature
Storming the Corporate Castle: Does Shareholder Activism Work?
Shareholder activism has sparked major wins for progressives, but the strategy has also spurred debate.
Theo Anderson
Labor
As Scathing SEIU Ad Hits Rahm Emanuel Where It Hurts, Chuy Garcia Endorses Financial Transaction Tax
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Labor
Obama Promises Rare Veto As House Votes to Slow Down Union Elections, Curb NLRB
Bruce Vail
Labor
“My Boss Would Yell At Me Every Day Until I Cried”: Lean Production at Volkswagen’s Tennessee Plant
Chris Brooks
Labor
Target Becomes the Latest Big Box Retailer to Raise Workers’ Wages
Arielle Zionts
Labor
At UN Conference, Domestic Workers Push for International Labor Standards
Rachel M. Cohen
Comics
Rahm Emanuel’s Trail of Devastation in Chicago
Eric Garcia
Labor
Coders Are Becoming the Industrial Workers of the 21st Century. Will They Organize?
Peter Downs
Labor
Thousands of New York City Teachers Protest Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Free Market Education Reforms
Kevin Solari
Viewpoint
Obama’s Drone Policy Crashes and Burns
Yemen, the poster child for drone-based foreign policy, has collapsed on itself.
Leonard C. Goodman
Rural America
The Legacy of Slavery: What Inequality and Industrial Hog Operations Have in Common
Laura Orlando
Feature
Whither Žižek?: On Zionism and Jews
Slavoj Zizek’s line of thought conveniently plays into the hands of Israel's hard right, like newly reelected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli expansionists.
Louis Nayman
Labor
Unions Can’t Beat Right to Work Just By Calling It ‘Unfair’—They Must Fight for Everyone
Rand Wilson
Feature
Under ACLU-Drafted Bill, Illinois Police Must Forget Where You’ve Been
A new Illinois State Senate bill could end the mass collection and indefinite storage of license plate tracking data by police.
Joel Handley
Feature
Why Jesus “Chuy” Garcia Should Look to Anton Cermak’s Chicago Mayoral Campaign for Inspiration
The parallels between Cermak and Garcia—and Chicago's political moment in the 1930s and now—are striking.
Peter Cole
Comics
The New Insane Way McDonald’s Is Mistreating its Workers
Matt Bors
Culture
In Jauja, Cinema Takes on Colonialism, Slowly
Viggo Mortensen and Lisandro Alonso tour Argentina's dark, imperialist past in a new film.
Michael Atkinson
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