The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

Not Your Grandma’s Wooden Nickel

Fears of global economic instability spawn DIY money.

Julia Pergolini

Labor

Senate Standoff Threatens Labor Board Shutdown

Bruce Vail

Farmer Plants First Industrial Hemp Crop in 50 Years

Susie Cagle

Comics

Sergeant Gropeman

Jeff Danziger

Party-Crashing for the Climate; Indignados Turn Two; Bus Ads Promote Equal Rights for Palestinians

Ben Lorber

Culture

Bring on the Trash

Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby gets the tackiness right, but the flappers wrong.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

If West, Texas Had Been a Terrorist Attack

Why the double standard?

David Sirota

Labor

Labor Department Hits the Road To Push Minimum Wage Hike

Bruce Vail

Feature

The Tragedy of Self Immolation: No One Cares

If a monk lights himself on fire and nobody watches, has he made a protest?

Andrew Lam

Boobs React to Angelina Jolie’s Preventive Mastectomy

Lindsay Beyerstein

Alt Press Pick of the Week: Calling Out Sexism on the Left

Alternative Press Center

Comics

Syria Scandal

Jeff Danziger

Viewpoint

Revoking Amnesty for Death Squads

El Salvador finally confronts the ghosts of its past.

Angelina Godoy

Labor

A More Democratic Foxconn? No One Told the Workers

Michelle Chen

Labor

After Fighting Rahm Emanuel on Layoffs, Airport Janitors Demand New Union

Micah Uetricht

Labor

Meet One of the Victims in the Right-Wing War Against the NLRB

David Moberg

Chicago Parents Take ‘Racist’ School Closings to Court

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Eight Hours Inside Occupied Cooper Union

Zachary Bell