The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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

Labor
Guitar Center Workers Rock the Shop Floor
Michelle Chen
Video
After Massive Strikes, Bangladesh Garment Workers Win 50-80% Raise
Miles Kampf-Lassin

Comics
How Hitler Started
Matt Bors

Feature
Invisible Injury
Victims of war crimes often suffer PTSD. What do the perpetrators feel?
Jeff Severns Guntzel and Andy Warner (illustrator)

Feature
Homeland, Season 3, Episode 4: Twist and Shout
The reason behind Saul's reprehensible behavior is revealed ... to make no sense whatsoever.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature
The New Populists
Can Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown revive bank reform?
Sarah Jaffe

Feature
Mayor of the 1%
A new book explains why 'Rahm Emanuel' is a dirty word in many Chicago circles.
Nick Burt

Dispatch
Boulder Electrified
Corporate interests and environmentalists face off in a Boulder, Colo. vote over ecofriendly public energy.
Nat Stein
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