The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Feature
Picturing an End to New York City’s Homelessness Crisis
More than 50,000 New Yorkers are homeless. Here's what the new mayor could do to help.
Molly Knefel
Viewpoint
President Obama: Incompetent or Liar?
Without Snowden leaks, the president wouldn’t even know that the NSA spies on world leaders.
Steven Hill
Feature
Homeland, Season 3, Episode 6: Journey to the Center of Saul’s Man-Pain
Homeland puts Saul’s midlife crisis over the welfare (and sanity) of its female characters.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
A decent proposal: to reduce recidivism, more prisons should allow conjugal visits
Matt Stroud
Dispatch
The Adoption-Industrial Complex
Is U.S. domestic adoption about children or profit?
Jessica Stites
Progressive Chicagoans Take Budget Hearings into Their Own Hands—No Emanuel Necessary
Matthew Blake
Labor
OSHA Weaknesses Force Workers to Choose: Report Safety Violations, or Keep Their Jobs?
Mike Elk
5th Circuit Shutters up to a Third of Texas Abortion Clinics
Lindsay Beyerstein
Feature
The Real Problem with Obamacare
Where the defeat of single-payer healthcare has gotten us.
David Sirota
Labor
The National Labor Relations Board Is Back at Full Throttle
Bruce Vail
Labor
A Halloween Nightmare in Juárez
Michelle Chen
Viewpoint
What Our Country Has Done for Us
The high hopes of JFK's day have mostly been dashed.
Susan J. Douglas
Viewpoint
The War on the Gullible
75 years after the 'War of the Worlds' broadcast, Americans are still panicked by fake news.
Susan J. Douglas
Feature
Immigrant Detainees Have No ‘Plan B’
Women in ICE custody have no assurance of receiving emergency contraception—even if they're raped.
Joyce Lee
Anti-Foreclosure Activists Put BlackRock in a Hard Place
Sarah Jaffe
Feature
Orange Is the New Black Roundtable, Part 4: Blackface, Larry and Other Things That Make Us Go ‘Ugh’
Our experts on Julianne Hough's Halloween costume and the surprises and disappointments of OINTB's second half.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Feature
All Over the World, Migrants Demand the Right to Stay at Home
A global consensus is emerging on immigration policy--and the U.S. isn't heeding it.
David Bacon
Culture
A Bathroom of One’s Own
In a Kenyan slum, pocket privies offer women safety, autonomy and a way to make a living.
John Collins
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