The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Oil Drilling Boom Boosts Boilermakers, Other Shipyard Unions

Bruce Vail

Feature

John Lewis’ Advice for Young Activists: March

In a new graphic memoir, the civil rights leader shows youth how to get in trouble--good trouble.

Sarah Jaffe

Comics

Cultural Differences

Matt Bors

Labor

Chicago Teachers’ Lesson of Social Justice Unionism Goes National

Samantha Winslow

Judge Rules Stop-and-Frisk Unconstitutional; Bloomberg Still Defends It

Jeff Schuhrke

Feature

Attack of the Tweeting Women

In Episode 5, Sorkin tackles topics (feminism, the Internet) that The Newsroom should never, ever touch.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Bipartisan Consensus: Detroit’s New, Publicly Financed Hockey Arena is a Terrible Idea

Pete Redington

Feature

Freedom in the Cloud

Assange, Manning and Snowden are the new heroes of the era of digitalized control.

Slavoj Žižek

Dispatch

No Longer a Prisoner of the Past

Rhode Island 'bans the box,' opening up job opportunities for the formerly incarcerated.

Toshio Meronek and Martha Wallner

Labor

Honeywell Plant Freezes Summer Vacations

Mike Elk

Feature

Opting for Free Time

Something’s missing from the work/life balance debate.

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Is There Detroit After Bankruptcy?

Why shock therapy won't reverse the Motor City's decline.

Ryan Felton

Labor

Will Illinois ‘Ban the Box?’

Matthew Blake

Labor

Blame Bangladesh’s Middlemen; Public Defenders Get Sequestered; A Mag Just for Interns

Mike Elk

The Butt Injection Black Market

Lindsay Beyerstein

Culture

Orange Is the New Black, Episode 3: Trans Women and Mentally Ill Cartoons

In OITNB's most-talked-about episode, Sophia Burset explodes transgender stereotypes, and Crazy Eyes gets thrown under the bus.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Indebted Students Expose ALEC’s Assault on Higher Education

Rebecca Burns

Culture

P.J. Harvey Gets Unmistakably Political

Harvey's new track pays homage to Shaker Aamer, who has spent 13 years in Guantanamo.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle