The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Listen: California Attorney General “Shocked” By Her Own Department’s Arguments Against Parole
George Lavender
Labor
The United Arab Emirates Guestworker System Is Inhumane. So Is Ours.
Rachel Luban
Feature
Loan Servicer Busted for Backdating, But Foreclosure Victims Say Shenanigans Haven’t Stopped
Ocwen Financial feels your pain.
Joel Sucher
InvestigationGoodman Institute
Fracking the Poor
A 5-month investigation reveals that fracking operations in California are disproportionately concentrated in poor communities of color—and may be causing alarming health effects.
Hannah Guzik
Labor
Mass. Teachers Defeat Corporate Ed Reform Bill Through Rank-and-File Power
Dan Clawson
Labor
At Chattanooga Volkswagen Plant, Workers Finally Win a Different Kind of Union
Will Craft
Labor
Postal Workers Push Back Against Privatization and Post Office Closures
Bruce Vail
Labor
Chicago’s Black Unemployment Rate Near Quadruple That of Whites
Adeshina Emmanuel, The Chicago Reporter
Comics
KKK: The Uber of Hate Groups
Matt Bors
Labor
If Labor’s Strategy Is as Good as Its Leaders Say, Why Are Unions in Crisis?
David Moberg
Feature
A Tale of Two Detroits, Separate and Unequal
In the new Detroit, a small number of wealthy residents are protected by private security and constant surveillance while the city's black majority struggles to maintain access to water.
Laura Gottesdiener
Viewpoint
Ferguson’s ISIS Allies?
Despite what right-wing media may tell you, ISIS has little in common with black Muslims--or black Americans.
Salim Muwakkil
Labor
Charges for Coal CEO: 6 Years for Worker Deaths, Up to 25 for Deceiving Investors
Eric Fink
Labor
A Textbook Example of a Boss’s Campaign to Destroy a Union
Moshe Z. Marvit
Labor
The Heartbreaking Poetry of an Apple Factory Worker in China Who Took His Own Life
Jordan McCurdy
Feature
Whether Darren Wilson Is Indicted or Not, the Entire System Is Guilty
An indictment of the Ferguson police officer who killed Michael Brown would not prove that black lives matter in America.
Mariame Kaba
Clinton-Era Law Costing Death Row Prisoners Chance At Appeal
George Lavender
The Mother Who Just Wanted to Know When Her Son Would Eat
Victoria Law
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