The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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Diane Ravitch: “Attack on Public Education is an Attack on Democracy”

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Detainees Reportedly Thrown Into Solitary Confinement as Hunger Strike Continues

Rose Arrieta

Culture

Judges Blind To Justice

Matt Taibbi's new book, The Divide, illuminates the corruption in our courtrooms.

Moe Tkacik

Feature

Lobbyists Deceptively Claim the Public Favors Fast-Tracking Trade Agreements

Critics say the much-hyped opinion polls relied on tricky phrasing to create an impression of voter support.

Cole Stangler

Comics

Missing Plane Makes Blitzer Go HAM

Matt Bors

Feature

New Mexico’s Badlands

In low-income colonias, the state's unregulated real-estate market allows predators to thrive.

Joseph Sorrentino

Labor

Emails Show Sen. Corker’s Chief of Staff Coordinated with Network of Anti-UAW Union Busters

Mike Elk

Feature

The ACA Could Be the Death Knell for Chicago’s Public Mental Health Clinics

In 2012, Mayor Emanuel's budget forced half the city's public mental health clinics to close; now the remaining six are in danger, too.

Kari Lydersen

Feature

The Scariest Things We Learned From the UN’s Climate Change Report

The situation may not be helpless, but the news definitely isn't good.

John Light

Feature

How I Met, Impregnated and Promptly Disregarded Your Mother

The popular CBS sitcom isn't the warmhearted delight viewers make it out to be.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

The Immigration Movement’s Left Turn

Advocates are moving away from the "pathway-to-citizenship" compromise—and are demanding a moratorium on deportations.

Michelle Chen

Comics

If You Made That Obamacare Deadline, Here’s What You Must Know

Matt Bors

Feature

When It Comes to Zombie-Killing, Father Knows Best

'The Walking Dead' is arguably one of the more conservative shows on television.

Katherine Don

Feature

Beyond the Minimum Wage

When it comes to achieving economic justice, organizers and politicians have to set the bar higher.

Amy Dean

Culture

Clever Girls

'Men or books?' These could be mutually exclusive choices for young women in 1950s Europe, as two new novels show.

Jane Miller

Feature

Nuclear Weapons Won’t Keep Us Safe

The U.S. will spend an estimated $1 trillion on its nuclear arsenal in the next 30 years. And for what cause?

Noam Chomsky

Comics

Fred Phelps Meets God

Matt Bors

Feature

How a Shadowy Hollywood Conservative Group Gamed the IRS System

Yet the IRS doesn't seem to care all that much.

Adam Parfrey, AlterNet