The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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

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