The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

Illinois Bill Would Ban State Pension Funds from Divesting from Israel

The anti-worker and anti-Palestinian agenda seem to be converging in Illinois.

Ben Lorber

Labor

Why Did the New York Times Ask Everybody But Grad Students About Grad Student Unions?

Anna Waltman, Natasha Raheja and Shannon Ikebe

Labor

Chicago Armored Truck Employees Say They Were Fired for Participating in Fight for 15 Strike

Arielle Zionts

Feature

Amtrak’s Spectrum Gap

The main reason for the derailment? Amtrak failed to acquire broadcast rights to send automatic safety communications.

David Sirota

Labor

Fast Food Workers Take Their Fight to McDonald’s Shareholders Meeting

David Moberg

Labor

After Police Union Pressure, Teacher Fired for Allowing Students to Write Letters to Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mario Vasquez

Culture

Why Silicon Valley Won’t Solve the World’s Problems

In Geek Heresy, former Microsoft do-gooder Kentaro Toyama reconsiders tech-based social-change initiatives.

Chris Lehmann

Feature

A Historian’s Case for Why We Should Stop Talking About the Founding Fathers

In American politics, the Founding Fathers are more propaganda than people.

David Sehat

Labor

After Striking and Occupying Their Factory, Chinese Bike Light Workers Face Firings and Arrests

Elaine Hui

Labor

Los Angeles Is Getting a $15 Minimum Wage

Lauren Gaynor

Labor

Walmart’s Absurd Anti-Union Training Video Just Got Leaked

Lauren Gaynor

Labor

Thousands of Fast Food Workers to Protest McDonald’s Shareholder Meeting Today

David Moberg

Culture

Inside the Happiness Racket

Can money buy happiness? A new book explores the history of those who have tried to sell it.

Joanna Scutts

Labor

Bill de Blasio Proposes a National Progressive Agenda to Rewrite the Rules of American Inequality

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Feature

Seymour Hersh’s Bin Laden Story Challenged the Power Structure—So Media Disregarded It

The veteran reporter's bombshell investigation into the killing of Osama bin Laden sparked a controversy in journalistic decency.

Jim Naureckas

Labor

In Wisconsin, A Test Case for Right to Work

Kathy Wilkes

Comics

The White on White Gang Crime Epidemic

Matt Bors

Feature

How Austerity Killed the Humanities

Not long ago, the Right fought viciously over the teaching of the humanities in American universities. Now conservatives are trying to eliminate them altogether.

Andrew Hartman