The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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

Comics
The Biggest NSA Revelation Yet
Matt Bors
Video
Chris Hayes and Bill Maher Slam GOP Attempts to Unbind the Social Contract in Obamacare
Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature
Tech Bros Are Losing
The tech industry's golden children can't get away with bigotry.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Viewpoint
The Biggest Threat to the Black Vote
The best way to defend African-American voting rights is to end the War on Drugs.
James Thindwa

Viewpoint
What a Tangled (World Wide) Web
Have our youth lost the gift of boredom?
Jane Miller

Labor
New York City Immigrants Test a New Economic “Bridge”
Michelle Chen

Feature
Orange Is The New Black, Episode 9: The Road To Hell
Piper braves the horrors of solitary confinement while Alex stares down her Pennsatucky past.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature
Steal From the Rich, Give to the Middle Class
Could the Robin Hood Tax help save our economy?
Andrew Elrod
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