The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Dispatch
A New Strategy To Make the Banks Pay
Youngstown, Ohio, may have found the cure to the national plague of abandoned properties.
Laura Gottesdiener
Labor
Volkswagen’s Employee Engagement Plan Could Weaken Labor
Alexandra Bradbury
Feature
Texas: The Blue Frontier
Texas won't turn blue from the top down, but it may already be doing so from the ground up.
Theo Anderson
Feature
Slip of an Officer’s Tongue Suggests Police Are Monitoring #BlackLivesMatter Protesters’ Cell Phones
Are Chicago police using 'stingrays' against activists?
Joel Handley
Feature
Whatever Obama’s Calculations, Socialism Is Still Alive and Well in Cuba
After 54 years of the most powerful country on earth with its boot on your collective neck, any relief is worthy of celebration.
Tom Hansen
Feature
Introducing ‘We Surveil and Protect’: An In These Times Investigation
A brief history of surveillance by the Chicago Police Department.
Joel Handley
Feature
Why Bernie Sanders Needs to Run for President—As an Independent
The corporate capture of both parties, explosion of energy in grassroots movements, and popular disgust with politics as usual make this the perfect moment for Sanders to run outside the Democratic Party.
David Goodner
Labor
Next Up for Retired UFC Champion: Organizing a Union for Ultimate Fighters
Kevin Solari
Feature
Insanely Rich People Insisting They’re Just Average Joes: Only in America
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew can't wrap his head around the fact that he's really, really wealthy.
David Sirota
Viewpoint
Why Cuba, Why Now?
The 5 likeliest reasons behind Obama's surprise move to reverse a 53-year-old policy.
Achy Obejas
Feature
From Ukraine’s Maidan to Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, Our Top 10 Films of 2014
Despite the ever-growing obsession with crappy remakes and computerized images of blowing shit up, the year featured some challenging, meaningful films.
Michael Atkinson
Dispatch
Should We Oppose the Intervention Against ISIS?
Most U.S. leftists say yes. But voices we rarely hear—Kurds and members of the Syrian opposition—have more ambiguous views.
Danny Postel
Labor
Obamacare Counselor: “On the Surface, People Have Choices. But It’s a Complete Farce”
Rebecca Burns
Culture
Brother, Can You Spare a Euro?
By posing the choice between a coworker's job and 1,000 Euros, Two Days, One Night explores the state of worker solidarity.
Michael Atkinson
DC Mayor Withdraws Proposed Jail Health Care Contract Amidst Controversy
George Lavender
Feature
Chicago Police Tortured Dozens of Black Men. Now, Victims Are Demanding Reparations.
Momentum is growing for a bill to finally help heal the wounds of years of torture of black men by the Chicago Police Department.
F. Amanda Tugade
Feature
“This Will Have a Ripple Effect Across the Country”: State of New York Bans Fracking
After years of pushing in New York, environmental activists have finally chalked up a victory against hydraulic fracturing.
Cole Stangler
Labor
“Employers Feel Wildly Free To Pay People However They Want”: An Interview with Kim Bobo
Theo Anderson
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