The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Comics
How to Avoid Being Shot by Police
Matt Bors
Labor
As New York City Considers Criminal Justice Reforms, Police Unions Stand in the Way
Ari Paul
Culture
Vampire Princess of Persia
Not your kid sister's vampire flick.
Michael Atkinson
Feature
A Short History of Killer Cops Let Off the Hook
The U.S. has a long history of allowing police to walk free after vicious racist violence.
Flint Taylor
Feature
Mockingjay’s Contradictory Revolution
The latest Hunger Games installment suggests that everything we do—even our resistance—is compromised.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Feature
In Iraq and Beyond, U.S. Foreign Policy is Based On Complete Fallacies
How can we ever hope for a sane foreign policy in the Middle East when America's bedrock assumptions about the region are completely wrong?
Andrew J. Bacevich
Feature
The Dismantling of Medicaid
Once considered one of the crowning achievements of The Great Society, Medicaid is now being steadily chipped away—and patients are suffering because of it.
Michael Collins
Culture
Let Old Labor Die
With union membership declining, Tom Geoghegan has a radical prescription for labor.
Jeremy Gantz
Culture
On the Death of a Spouse
Karl has died.
Jane Miller
Feature
Dozens of Activists Arrested in Battle Against a Fracking “Gateway Drug” in New York
Residents of New York's Finger Lakes argue that gas projects would spell ecological and economic disaster for the region.
Molly Bennet
Locked Down, Locked Out: Exclusive Excerpt from Maya Schenwar’s New Book
Maya Schenwar
Dispatch
For the Majority of Undocumented Immigrants Who Remain in the Shadows, Churches Offer Sanctuary
6 million undocumented immigrants won’t receive relief under Obama’s executive action. Some churches are providing them with hope.
Kevin Solari
Labor
Three Myths About Teacher Tenure
Samantha Winslow
Feature
Should We Trust Him? The Mixed Results of Obama’s Past Immigrant Relief Measures
Past executive actions for undocumented immigrants under the president's administration haven't always delivered.
Yana Kunichoff
Viewpoint
Football: Nothing Left to Cheer For
How can fans respond to the rash of brutality on and off the field?
Susan J. Douglas
Feature
Journalists Aren’t Covering Local Elections. Our Democracy Is Suffering Because of It.
What if you held an election and nobody showed up to cover it? Americans now know the answer: elections with lots of paid ads but little journalism, context or objective facts.
David Sirota
Feature
Elizabeth Warren Needs to Run for President—Even If She Doesn’t Want To
She's the only one who can save the Democrats from themselves.
Ian Reifowitz
Culture
The Reporter Who Paid a High Price for ‘Contra Crack’
A new film, Kill the Messenger, shows how the CIA, the Washington Post and the LA Times conspired to discredit a journalist, and destroyed a life.
Jim Naureckas
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