The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Feature
Ten Governors’ Races To Watch In 2014
A handy guide for progressives and working people.
Sarah Berlin and David Moberg
Feature
Our Neoliberal President
Obama wants to privatize the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Melvyn Dubofsky
Philadelphia Implements Landmark Progressive Immigration Policy
Dan Staggs
Feature
Toppling the Tea Party
In 2014, progressives hope to take down the GOP gubernatorial class of 2010
David Moberg
Feature
The Rise of the Digital Proletariat
Astra Taylor reminds us that the Internet cannot magically produce revolution.
Sarah Jaffe
Comics
If Keystone Pipeline Protesters Used Bundy Tactics
Matt Bors
Culture
Is Harmon’s ‘Community’ Really Back in Harmony?
The season that followed creator Dan Harmon's return was more about him than about anything else.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Feature
How We Can Fix Wall Street
There's a solution to the predations of high-frequency traders.
David Sirota
New Mexico Ending Conjugal Visits for Prisoners
George Lavender
North Carolina Supreme Court May Return Prisoners Spared by Racial Justice Act to Death Row
George Lavender
Judge Blames the Press for Telling the Truth About Muslim Surveillance
Sarah Berlin
Dispatch
West Virginia Community Delivers on Clean Water
A grassroots water delivery group filled in where government and relief agencies fell short.
Sarah Berlin
Taxpayers Ask Walmart Chairman To Make Good on the Tab
Sarah Berlin
Feature
We Can Overcome Capitalism, But It’ll Take Some Work
Longtime organizer Jane McAlevey's new book shows progressives that the Left's defeats aren't written in the stars.
Sam Gindin
Culture
A Cubicle of One’s Own
Nikil Saval's new book, Cubed, shows us the future of the workplace.
Chris Lehmann
Prison Food Company Faces Fresh Criticism
George Lavender
Feature
Two Decades After Oslo, A Look at Life in Israel and Palestine
While in the Middle East last October, I saw firsthand why ending occupation is so necessary—and why it will be so difficult.
Marilyn Katz
Labor
Can Scott Walker Be Defeated?
Roger Bybee
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