The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Comics

Rahm Emanuel’s Speeding Camera Message

Eric Garcia

Culture

Whitewashing Godzilla

The latest adaptation of the classic flick all but ignores the original monster's anti-nuclear message.

Steve Ryfle

Viewpoint

Venezuela Tries the Talking Cure

Amidst turmoil, President Maduro meets with opposition leaders. But will it help?

Achy Obejas

Ending Campus Sexual Assault—For Good

Sarah Berlin

Feature

A Bipartisan Alliance That’s True As Steel

Dumped steel from abroad threatens thousands of American jobs.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Comics

Firing an Editor

Matt Bors

Feature

Taking on ‘Capital’ Without Marx

What Thomas Piketty misses in his critique of capitalism.

David Harvey

Portland Divests $9 Million from Walmart

Sarah Berlin

Abu Dhabi Workers Receive Apology From NYU

Mary Lorenzo

Feature

Ode To America’s Freshwater People

On Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg, Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and other Midwesterners.

Kurt Vonnegut

Labor

The New ‘Harvest of Shame’: Children Who Pick Tobacco

Joe Conason, AlterNet

Feature

Mad Men: Season 7, Episode 6: Peggy and Don, Reunited (And It Feels So Good)

This was the kind of episode Mad Men fans live for.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

Supermarket Checker: ‘If You Want Personality, Then You Come to My Line’

Jeff Schuhrke

Culture

Death of a Hacktivist

A new documentary on Aaron Swartz.

Patricia Aufderheide

Feature

Oligarchy Enshrined

Why the Supreme Court’s McCutcheon ruling is good news for the super-rich and bad news for progressive Democrats.

Cole Stangler

Sixty Years After Brown v Board of Education, Racism Persists in Prison System says Attorney General

George Lavender

Labor

Turkey Erupts Over Mining Tragedy; Many Blame Privatization

Sisi Tang

Massachusetts Prisoners Take Sheriffs To Court Over “Degrading” Strip-Searches

George Lavender