The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Chicago Aldermen Want a $15 Minimum Wage in Their City, Too

Ethan Corey

Feature

Memo to ‘Game of Thrones’: Abusers Aren’t Heroes

In its season finale, the show once again asks us to sympathize with a male perpetrator of violence rather than his female victim.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Comics

Iraq: Mission Accomplished-er!

Matt Bors

Feature

Making Sense of Obama’s Clean Power Plan

Is the EPA's proposal to reduce carbon emissions really a game-changer?

Cole Stangler

Feature

How We Can Save American Democracy

Amending the Constitution may sound audacious, but it's not impossible.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

‘No Trauma, No-Bama,’ Activists Tell University of Chicago

Carlos Ballesteros

Feature

Eugenics Behind Bars

Nearly four decades after the practice was outlawed, people in California women's prisons have still been sterilized without their consent.

Loretta Ross

President Obama Takes Huge Step for LGBT Rights

Ethan Corey

Feature

Nigerian Philosopher Calls for Culture Shift

The debate among sub-Saharan intellectuals about modernity and traditionalism.

G. Pascal Zachary

The Price of Prison Time: States Pay-Out for Post-Conviction Exonerations

George Lavender

Comics

Iraq War 2.0

Jeff Danziger

Labor

Jazz Musician: ‘I See the Gap Between the Haves and Have-Nots’

Jeremy Gantz

Dispatch

Judgment Day for Payday Lenders

Religious groups in the South fight a predatory practice.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Why Brazil’s World Cup Protesters Are So Furious

Four devastating effects of La Copa that will be felt long after the games.

Dave Zirin

Labor

‘$10.10 is Not Enough,’ Federal Contract Workers Tell Obama

Bruce Vail

North Carolina Passes Fracking Secrecy Law

Jessica Corbett

Political Horse Trading Could Leave 400,000 Virginians Without Medicaid

Hannah Gelbort

Feature

Orange is The New Black, Season 2, Episode 1: It’s All About Piper

If you are not a fan of cockroaches or Piper, you are out of luck.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle