The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Can Breaking Bad’s Comic Relief Sustain a Spin-Off?
Lindsay Beyerstein

Feature
Tapping Chavez’s Political Reserves
Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela will test the political infrastructure of Bolivarian Revolution.
Jackson Foote and Luis D. Lucas

Feature
A Crash Course in Citizen Budgeting
What Chicago can learn from participatory budgeting projects around the world.
Joel Handley

Labor
Senators and Unions Call for Obama to Intervene in Patriot Coal Bankruptcy
Mike Elk

Feature
Los Mineros’ Leader-in-Exile
From Canada, Napoleón Gómez Urrutia seeks justice for the deaths of 65 miners.
Kari Lydersen
Video
The Rap Song That Rahm Emanuel Doesn’t Want To Hear
Jessica Stites

Feature
‘Please Stop Exploiting People’
Forced and child labor are embedded in the 21st-century economy. What's Washington doing about it?
Jeremy Gantz

Alt Press Pick of the Week: In Defense of North Korea
Alternative Press Center

Dispatch
Can We Kiss Internet Privacy Goodbye?
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act is moving swiftly again--and this time, Obama's veto is less certain.
Ian Becker

Feature
In Gaza, Dignity Is the Battleground
Israeli troops employ both insult and injury.
Noam Chomsky
Bernie Sanders, Bank Buster
Amien Essif

Labor
Obama Tries To Revive Gutted Labor Board
Bruce Vail

Viewpoint
Drone Justice is Blind
There's no way President Obama can fairly review each drone strike.
Leonard C. Goodman
1 in 3 Foreclosures Were Triggered by Bank Error
Rebecca Burns
Video
What Can You Buy For Having Your House Stolen? Alexis Goldstein Tells Chris Hayes
Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature
Obama’s Budget: A Bad Bargain
Cutting Social Security is a recipe for social insecurity.
Tim Carpenter and Mike Hersh

Comics
McGraduate
Jeff Danziger

Culture
Upstream Color Reinvents Cinema
We've seen the future of film, and it's incomprehensible.
Michael Atkinson
