The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Your Home Is Your Prison: How to Lock Down Your Neighborhood, Your Country, and You

Maya Schenwar

Feature

All the Chicago Mayoral Candidates Are Getting It Wrong: We Don’t Need More Cops

The only real solution to reducing violence is reducing inequality.

Andy Thayer

Feature

Big Tax Bills for the Poor, Tiny Ones for the Rich

Regressive state and local tax policies don’t just harm the poor—they harm entire economies.

David Sirota

Labor

After Facebook Victory, Shuttle Drivers at Silicon Valley Companies Look to Unionize

Alex Lubben

Labor

Union Membership Is Down Again—But It Still Pays To Be a Member

Doug Henwood

Labor

Is Ronald McDonald Racist?

David Moberg

Labor

Brazilian Workers, Students Battle Fare Hikes Pushed By Workers Party

Steve Payne

Feature

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Christian Radical—And Saint

King’s treatment in the media shows the degree to which, in the American mind, Christianity has been completely stripped of any radicalism.

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig

Culture

Cuba’s Performance Problem

Havana closes down an open mic.

Coco Fusco

Feature

Slavoj Žižek: The Urgent Necessity of a Syriza Victory in Greece

Only a split from the European Union by Greece can save what is worth saving in the European legacy: democracy, trust in people and egalitarian solidarity.

Slavoj Žižek

Dispatch

The Women Behind Black Lives Matter

The 'leaderless' movement is being propelled by the efforts of women of color.

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Comics

Boko Haram And The Real Threat

Matt Bors

Comics

RIP King Tiger

Eric Garcia

Labor

The U.S. Labor Movement: At a ‘Crossroads,’ or the Gallows?

Jake Blumgart

Labor

Saving Labor’s Sinking Ship

David Moberg

Dispatch

Community College in the Crosshairs

Even as Obama is calling for free community college, California's landmark system is under attack by accreditors allied with ALEC and for-profit schools.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Goucher College Adjuncts Expect Union Victory As Organizing Spreads in Maryland

Bruce Vail

Feature

How To Sell Off a City

Welcome to Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago, the privatized metropolis of the future.

Rick Perlstein