The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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

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