The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

Budget Battles: Beyond Obama vs. Ryan

The Congressional Progressive Caucus hopes to shift the annual budget debates away from austerity.

Cole Stangler

Fight for 15 Workers Sue McDonald’s for Wage Theft

Sarah Berlin

Feature

The High Stakes of New York’s Heated Charter-School Battle

The fight is much bigger than Andrew Cuomo vs. Bill de Blasio.

Sarah Jaffe

Labor

Opposed by Business Lobby, Iowa’s Wage-Theft Bill Is Poised To Die

Spencer Woodman

Labor

Industry Attacks on ‘Scaffold Law’ Put Construction Workers on Shaky Ground

Michelle Chen

Poll: Right-Wing Pro-Israel Lobbying Group AIPAC Losing Influence

Sarah Berlin

Feature

Undermining the Upper Peninsula

The Chippewa take a stand against the return of mines to Michigan.

John Collins

Feature

How Social Security Was Saved

Progressive groups and their allies in Congress win one for the people.

Cole Stangler

Labor

Amazon Warehouse Workers to Take Wage Suit to Supreme Court

Bruce Vail

Labor

Care Before Profit? Nurses Get Radical in Fight to Save Brooklyn Hospitals

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Hannibal’s Feminist Take on Horror

The NBC drama proves that you can stamp out sexism and still produce scares.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Fracking May Have Induced Ohio Earthquakes

Alex Wolff

Feature

Is Obama’s Budget Really ‘Dead on Arrival’?

Republicans like Darrell Issa don't want to engage in debate, they want to stifle it.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Comics

The Great Bill of Rights Debate

Matt Bors

Labor

Riding Herd Over Workers’ Rights?

Kari Lydersen

Labor

Teamsters Back School Bus Drivers in Fight Against ‘Rampant’ Wage Theft

Bruce Vail

More Than 500 Immigrant Detainees Begin Hunger Strike in Washington State

Sarah Berlin

Viewpoint

Schoolteachers Take On the Chicago Machine

The Chicago Teachers Union flexes its political muscle in the March primaries.

Joel Bleifuss