The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

Why the Tea Party Loves Medicare but Hates Obamacare

How the GOP and the Koch brothers took advantage of the Tea Party's confused populism.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Culture

Saints and Sinners

Stephen Jimenez's new book, The Book of Matt, aims to de-mythologize Matthew Shepard.

Yasmin Nair

Culture

Experts Needed; Knowledge Optional

How the Beltway media embraced a fake Syria expert.

Chris Lehmann

Labor

How Young Is Too Young for Multiple-Choice Tests? (A) 5 (B) Never

Sarah Jaffe

Comics

Scalia Is Pretty Much Awful

Matt Bors

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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Way Down in the Hole (Again)

Brody has bad luck with foreign countries and holes.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

Sailors Unions Defend Greenpeace’s ‘Arctic 30’: Peaceful Protests and Piracy Are ‘Very Different’

Bruce Vail

Comics

A Debt-Free America

Matt Bors

Controversy over U.S. lethal injections sparks interest in France’s last execution—in 1977

Matt Stroud

Culture

The Seamus Heaney I Knew

In memory of a Nobelist and a dear friend.

Jane Miller

Feature

‘FDR Democrat’ Vies for Congressional Seat

In a five-way Democratic race in Massachusetts, Carl Sciortino is jockeying for leftmost.

Cole Stangler

Labor

Migrant Women Bring Voices to Capital

Michelle Chen

Feature

Unintended Conquerors

Yossi Klein Halevi's new book Like Dreamers speaks with rare clarity on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Louis Nayman

NYPD Cop Arrested for ‘Biker Riot’ Also Spied on Occupy

Sarah Jaffe

Labor

In Vermont, the Call To Unionize Is Coming From Inside the Home

David Moberg

Labor

Fines for Texas Fertilizer Plant; Interns Keep the Government Running; Who Will Pick the Pears?

Mike Elk

Feature

Gravity: A Giant Leap for Film, and a Step for Womankind

The film currently blowing up box offices is, essentially, a one-woman show.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

Obamacare Complicates UFCW Talks; Seattle Workers on Brink of Strike

Bruce Vail