The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Viewpoint

A Private-Sector Model: Really?

How Obama and the Democrats failed to defend the universal right to healthcare.

James Thindwa

Feature

Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 3: A Series of Unfortunate Aftermaths

Downton's writers can't stop exploring sexual assault--but do they even know they're doing it?

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Comics

Bieber Standards

Matt Bors

After protesting solitary confinement—from solitary confinement—prisoners back in court

Matt Stroud

Feature

Before King Was Pacifist

MLK's embrace of nonviolent protest was the result of a complex moral evolution.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

Labor

New York’s All-Day Pre-K Plan: Good News for Teachers?

Michelle Chen

OFRA, PALESTINE

Rachel K. Dooley

Feature

A Cold, Hard Look at the NSA’s Metadata Program

Fearmongering abounds, but the facts are simple. No attacks have been stopped.

David Sirota

Labor

Mistakes of West, Texas Repeated In West Virginia

Mike Elk

Feature

Disrupting the Disruptors

Working at Amazon.com sucks. Can unions do something about it?

Erik Forman

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR

Rachel K. Dooley

Study Points to United States as Biggest Global Warming Culprit

Danayit Musse

Labor

Billboards Pave the Way for a Fight for 15 in Los Angeles

Rose Arrieta

Video

Bruce Springsteen Lets Gov. Chris Christie Know How He Really Feels About “Bridgegate”

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature

How Walmart Organizers Turned the Internet Into a Shop Floor

Walmart workers and organizers prove 'clicktivism' can evolve into offline activism.

Sarah Jaffe

Religion-Related Violence Reaches Six-Year High

Andrew Mortazavi

A New Use for Drones: Saving Endangered Wildlife

Danayit Musse

Feature

Coal-ateral Damage

Appalachian environmentalists call a proposed 110-mile expressway ‘mountaintop removal disguised as a highway.’

Cole Stangler