The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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

Culture

Land of the Free and Home of the Enhanced Interrogators

We need a truth and reconciliation commission to deal with our torture problem.

Chris Lehmann

Labor

Randi Weingarten Shares Personal Story of Sexual Assault

Micah Uetricht

Comics

Torture, Weed and American Justice

Matt Bors

Comics

America and the Mexican 43

Eric Garcia

Culture

A Girlfriends’ Guide to Rage

Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce has to stop trying so desperately to be a "women's show."

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle