The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
OverCriminalized: Alternatives to Incarceration?
George Lavender
Feature
Home Care in Crisis
Everyone agrees the answer to the critical shortage of caregivers is good jobs. But how do we get there?
Kathryn Joyce
Labor
Philadelphia Teachers Outraged After Union Contract Canceled by Unelected Reformers
Kevin Solari
Former Chicago Police Commander Accused of Torture Released from Prison
George Lavender
Labor
After Defeating Democrats, Will Ohio Unionists Form a New Labor Party?
Amien Essif
Labor
Teamsters Warehouse Workers Face a Bankruptcy Court Designed to Protect Bosses, Not Workers
Bruce Vail
Labor
Illinois Teachers Join Wave of Suburban Strikes
Kevin Solari
Comics
The Kind of Blood That Causes Alarm
Matt Bors
Labor
Why Are Teach for America and a California Billionaire Investing in a Minnesota School Board Race?
Sarah Lahm
Labor
Precarious Academic Workers Are Pushing Back Against the Tenuous Track
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
Today Show Nabs Soldiers Who Scam Thousands, Ignores Corporations That Scam Billions
Ian Reifowitz
Feature
Jesse Jackson Keeps Pushing
30 years after his first presidential run, Jackson talks Obama, Civil Rights and the black vote.
Joel Bleifuss
Feature
Economic Inequality is Much Worse Than Most Americans Believe
According to a recent study, most of us severely underestimate just how bad the gap between the rich and the rest of us have gotten.
David Sirota
Feature
Abortion Isn’t a Necessary Evil. It’s Great
Progressives should admit it: We like abortion.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Labor
Portland Church Fights a Worker Center Activist’s Deportation—And a Broken Immigration System
Kevin Solari
Feature
Noam Chomsky: Only One Thing Will Make Israel Change Course
Israel's brutalization of Palestinians through exercises like "mowing the lawn" will persist without a change in U.S. policy.
Noam Chomsky
Culture
Portrait of a Husband, Father and Genocidal Butcher
Heading the SS didn't excuse Heinrich Himmler from his fatherly duties.
Michael Atkinson
Feature
Jon Burge, Torturer of Over 100 Black Men, Is Out of Prison After Less Than Four Years
Chicago's notorious former police commander is released from prison. A human rights lawyer representing police torture victims responds.
Flint Taylor
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