The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Comics

At Home with the Cheneys

Jeff Danziger

The Shady For-Profit Company Poised To Take Over DC Prison Healthcare

Alice Ollstein

Labor

Even With a GOP Congress, Obama Could Still Defend American Workers. Here’s How.

David Moberg

Viewpoint

From Occupy to Ferguson

The two movements are more connected than you think.

Jessica Stites

Labor

Are “Works Councils” Really Such a Good Idea for Workers and Unions?

Douglas Williams

Feature

The Media’s 3 False Assumptions About American Torture

The Senate torture report could be the opening we need to make U.S. torture a thing of the past. Let’s not waste it.

Rebecca Gordon

Viewpoint

We Can’t All Just Get Along

In our era of polarization, one party is guiltier than the other.

Susan J. Douglas

Wisconsin Woman Jailed Under ‘Cocaine-Mom’ Law

George Lavender

Labor

As Columbia Grad Students Announce Union Drive, UOregon Students Declare Victory in Strike

Kevin Solari

Labor

Thanks to Labor Board Ruling, You Can Now Use Company Email to Organize a Union

Moshe Z. Marvit

Feature

Charter Schools May Be Re-Segregating America’s Education System

Charters' defenders like to position themselves as 21st century civil rights activists. But a Delaware lawsuit alleges that charters are actually worsening racial inequality in the state.

David Sirota

Feature

The Recipe For A Successful Protest Movement

It's much more than a sheer numbers game: movements need a combination of mass disruption and sacrifice in order to take off.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

Feature

The Most Hated Woman on the Internet

Haters--myself included--have pummeled Amanda Palmer so far beyond recognition that it’s disconcerting to hear her actual voice in her new memoir, The Art of Asking.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Viewpoint

U.S. Youth Take Police Violence Charges to the UN Committee Against Torture

A new generation globalizes the struggle.

Salim Muwakkil

Feature

On International Human Rights Day, Consider the U.N.‘s Statements on the American Justice System

We usually think of "human rights abuses" as something that occur abroad. But recent U.N. proceedings have strong words for the U.S.'s domestic and international activities.

Flint Taylor

Feature

Slavoj Žižek: How the United States Rolls

It's lonely being the global policeman.

Slavoj Žižek

Labor

SCOTUS Rules Workers Don’t Need To Be Paid for All Their Time Working

Moshe Z. Marvit

Feature

Do You Want Shrapnel with That Airbag?

Culpable carmakers and captive regulators make a deadly combo.

Terry J. Allen