The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

The Joy of Hate-Watching ‘Atlas Shrugged’

A Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the trilogy's final installment is just the icing on the cake.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

‘People’s Board’ Takes On Rahm Emanuel’s Handpicked School Board

Matthew Blake

Feature

How the Syrian Revolution Went Wrong

With the opposition fracturing, is there still hope for a Syrian Spring?

Richard Seymour

Comics

The Can Kicks Back

Jeff Danziger

Feature

An Empire in a Galaxy Not So Far Away

Obama insists that the U.S. is not an 'empire,' but our foreign policy suggests otherwise.

David Sirota

Feature

What Bootstraps?

Proposed food stamp cuts could leave job seekers with nowhere to turn.

Cole Stangler

Labor

California Domestic Workers Win Long-Sought Bill of Rights

Rose Arrieta

Labor

Wage Wars: Bangladeshi Workers Reach a Boiling Point

Michelle Chen

Labor

Holding Obama’s Feet to the Fire on ‘Living Wage’ Executive Order

Bruce Vail

No Compensation: Wrongfully Convicted Man Can’t Sue Police Who Helped To Put Him Behind Bars

Matt Stroud

Culture

This Can’t Be Paradise

Dante gets an update in Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's provocative new films.

Michael Atkinson

Labor

Janitors Strike in Columbus, Ohio

Kari Lydersen

Labor

A Load Off the Minds (And Feet) of Pregnant Workers in NYC

Sarah Jaffe

Labor

Musicians See an End to a Symphony of Pain

Bruce Vail

Feature

Orange Is The New Black, Episode 10: There’s No Place Like ‘Bora Bora Bora’

The fantasy that keeps us going.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Dispatch

Blood on the Beach

The kidnapping and brutal murder of a sea turtle conservationist.

Todd Steiner

Breaking Bad Recap, Season 5, Episode 15: Granite State

Lindsay Beyerstein

Feature

The Cult of the Selfish

When did America lose sight of the common good?

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President