The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Labor
Chicago Raises Minimum Wage to $13 by 2019, But Strikers Say It’s Not Enough
Will Craft
Labor
Bankruptcy Court Ruling Helps Anti-Union Grocer Slash Benefits and Pensions for 1,100 Workers
Bruce Vail
Labor
A Chicago Teacher Explains How Her School Fought Back Against Standardized Testing—And Won
Sarah Chambers
Feature
The 14-Year-Old Voice of the Climate Change Generation
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is calling on both the young and the old to save our planet.
Jordan McCurdy
Labor
Lame-Duck Congress Nears Last-Minute Vote On Sweeping Pension Reform
Cole Stangler
Labor
Illinois Public Employees Prepare for a Bruising Fight with Bruce Rauner
Amien Essif
Dispatch
Is Gentrification Inevitable?
Some activists are trying to beat back the tide of the market.
Yana Kunichoff
Labor
NYU Grad Students Say They’re Ready to Strike
Ari Paul
Labor
Employers Keep Shifting Costs to Workers Under Obamacare
Mark Dudzic
Comics
Seeing the World in Cop-O-Vision
Matt Bors
Feature
Feeling Angry About the Darren Wilson Decision? Join the Fight for the ‘Michael Brown Law’
We can't change the grand jury's verdict, but we can take action alongside the Brown family to require police to wear body cameras.
Ian Reifowitz
Feature
The One Thing Worse Than Big Dairy’s Abuse of Cows? Its Abuse of Workers.
While the dairy industry's cruel treatment of cows has been well documented, workers face vile and often dangerous conditions.
Joseph Sorrentino
‘Chipping Away At The System’: Maya Schenwar on Alternatives to Our ‘Justice’ System
George Lavender
Culture
Drug Shills Dispensing Pills
A psychiatrist questions Big Pharma's influence on her profession.
Jean Kim
Labor
Want Thanksgiving Off? Follow These Whole Foods Workers’ Example and Go On Strike
Amien Essif
Dispatch
Baltimore Teens Take Out the Trash
Youth battle a waste incinerator.
Bruce Vail
Culture
Reports from Inside First Look Media Suggest That Maybe Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Manage Journalists
Feverish speculation surrounds First Look's recent troubles. But perhaps the most obvious culprit is its reliance on truckloads of tech money.
Chris Lehmann
Labor
Under New Progressive Leadership, Teachers Union Fights “Teacher Jail”
Samantha Winslow
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