The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

What Progressives Around the Country Can Learn from Chicago’s Mayoral Election

If candidates rise above “safe” poll-tested messaging and actually talk about the things that matter to people, progressives have a fighting chance of winning.

David Hatch

Viewpoint

In Chicago’s Mayoral Election, the Austerity Agenda Went Unopposed By Both Emanuel and Garcia

Chicago's progressive movement needs to do more to advance a real alternative to austerity economics.

Saqib Bhatti

Viewpoint

From Moral Victories to Tangible Ones

Jesus "Chuy" Garcia’s defeat was crushing. But Chicago progressives won, at the very least, a moral victory. Or maybe much more.

Rick Perlstein

Culture

The Appeal of the UK’s Radical Right

UKIP is reaching the 'left behind' white working class.

Jane Miller

Labor

Union-backed Sue Sadlowski Garza Claims Win Over Rahm Emanuel Ally in Southeast Chicago (Updated)

Kari Lydersen

Labor

Broad Support for LGBT Rights Somehow Caught Republican Governors By Surprise

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Labor

Rahm Emanuel Won—But Chicago Progressives Actually Have Much to Be Happy About

Micah Uetricht

Dispatch

America’s Tween Soldiers

Middle schoolers: Uncle Sam wants you

Seth Kershner

Feature

BREAKING: In Chicago, Reports of Voters Receiving Ballots Already Marked for Emanuel

After a Facebook post suggested voting irregularities blew up, similar reports are emerging.

Rick Perlstein

Labor

Yes, Rahm Has Brought Businesses To Chicago—But Their Labor Records Aren’t Pretty

Yana Kunichoff

Feature

Is Chicago Finally Tired of Rahm Emanuel?

Emanuel might conceivably lose—a previously unthinkable notion—in his bid for a second term of Chicago's mayor.

John R. MacArthur

Dispatch

Harvard Feels the Heat on Fossil-Fuel Divestment

It's not Al Gore's movement anymore. Student activists are bringing a new militancy to the fight against climate change.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

Bernie Sanders Endorses Chuy Garcia, Calls Chicago Election a ‘Political Revolution’

Kari Lydersen

Labor

The New Union Plan to Protect Immigrant Members from Deportation

Julia Kann

Labor

Fight for Fifteen on Campus: Northeastern Students to Vote for $15 Wage for All University Employees

Keely Mullen

Feature

Darth Rahm vs. The Chuy Rebellion

Jesús "Chuy" Garcia's meteoric rise could land him the mayorship if only he can channel the force—record voter turnout among Chicago's disenfranchised.

Ethan Michaeli

‘We Begin With Ourselves’: Exclusive Excerpt From Captive Nation by Dan Berger

Dan Berger

Feature

Who Do You Protect, Who Do You Surveil?

The Chicago Police Department has spent millions on high-tech spying equipment, including cell-phone tracking technology, but is extremely secretive about its use.

Joel Handley