The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Railroad Conductor: ‘Railroading Has Changed So Much’

Steve Early

Viewpoint

Trojan Hobby Horse

Courts don't just treat corporations as people--they treat them as sweethearts.

Chris Lehmann

Labor

Protesters Arrested at $15-an-Hour Action Outside Burger King

Rose Arrieta

Comics

GOP’s Christianity Problem

Matt Bors

California Jails Forcing Women to Take Pregnancy Tests Face Legal Challenge

George Lavender

Feature

Why Higher Voter Turnout Scares the GOP

Republicans are once again drumming up fear of a nearly non-existent crime: "voter fraud."

David Sirota

North Carolina’s Longest-Serving Death Row Prisoner Released

George Lavender

Labor

Fast-Food Workers Turn Up the Heat

Amien Essif

Feature

Noam Chomsky: The End of History?

The short, strange era of human civilization would appear to be drawing to a close.

Noam Chomsky

Feature

Why Labor Matters in the Fight for Racial Justice

Black workers' struggles in the labor movement have won important gains—including transformation of unions themselves.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Labor

Atlantic City’s Casino Closings Leave Thousands of Workers Out of Luck

Jake Blumgart

Labor

Guards Need Job Security of Their Own, Say Apple Store Protesters

Julia Wong

Feature

Nemesis of the Chemical Giants

For 30 years, scientist Theo Colborn has fought the chemical industry—and won.

Molly M. Ginty

Feature

The Congress of Collective Hallucinations

In Ari Folman's new film, fantasy is a slippery slope.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Comics

Where ISIS Learned to Waterboard

Matt Bors

California Moves to Change Solitary Confinement for Mentally Ill Prisoners

George Lavender

Labor

Data Entry Associate: ‘It Just Felt Completely Irrelevant’

Analeah Rosen

On Labor Day, A Working Families Party Strategy

Julie Kushner and Rafael Navar