The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

The Children Left Behind

What happened to the students pushed out by high-stakes testing?

Debbie Nathan

Private prisons thrive despite repeated failures to justify a costly, dangerous industry

Matt Stroud

Dispatch

Sweat-Free Chocolate

Pledge to buy Halloween candy that's child-labor-free.

Amato Nocera

Labor

Railroad Worker: BART Fatalities Show We Still Aren’t Safe

Kari Lydersen

Comics

Drone Reassignment

Matt Bors

Feature

The ‘Economic Persecution’ Myth: No Need To Weep for the Wealthy

Research shows that taxing millionaires won't drive them away.

David Sirota

Video

Russell Brand Breaks Down The Need For Socialism

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Culture

Silk Road Rage

Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin is a grotesque portrayal of modern-day China's struggle with corruption.

Michael Atkinson

Labor

Minimum-Wage Hike Won’t Appease Bangladeshi Workers

Michelle Chen

Labor

16-Hour Shifts, But Not a Real Worker?

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Social Democracy in the South

Bernie Sanders talks about economic justice—and the possibility of a presidential run—on a three-day road trip.

Cole Stangler

Comics

Hooray?

Jeff Danziger

Feature

No More City on a Hill

San Francisco isn't some carefree utopia for queer people, says trans activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

Yasmin Nair

Discovering a Black Man Having a Heart Attack on the Sidewalk

Mike Elk

Dispatch

Schoolyard Syndicalists

From the Chicago public school closings, some students emerge radicalized.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Shooting America in the Foot

Republicans wounded the country--and their party--with their failed gambit to defund the Affordable Care Act.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Feature

A Case for Couch Potato Feminism

An art exhibit meant to provoke face-to-face feminist dialogue disappoints.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

Cooperation Without Borders

Jeff Schuhrke