The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

GOP Wants to Extend Bush Tax Cuts, Not Jobless Benefits. Can Dems Seize the Moment?

Roger Bybee

Two Years After Two Predictions, One Unfortunate Result

Pete Karman

Labor

‘Nothing Stops a Bullet Like a Job’

Kari Lydersen

The Pitchfork Music Festival: Can Indie Music Get Festive?

Jeremy Gantz

Labor

Tobacco Giant Philip Morris is Hooked on Child Labor (Video)

Michelle Chen

Dispatch

Tax Dodgers, Inc.

Congress tries—and so far fails—to combat "legal" corporate tax avoidance, which costs the U.S. Treasury billions each year

Christopher Moraff

Comics

sharonangle

August Pollak

Viewpoint

Austerity: Why and for Whom?

Richard D. Wolff

Labor

‘Something Needs to Be Done’: Massey Mine Survivor Testifies Before Congress

Lindsay Beyerstein

At Public Hearing, Citizens Speak Out Against—and For—Comcast/NBC Merger

Margaret Smith

Labor

Newsflash: What’s Good for Immigration is Good for America

Michelle Chen

Weekly Diaspora: Suing, Protesting, and Boycotting Arizona SB 1070

Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger

Labor

Who Can Halt the Democratic Party’s Death Spiral Over Jobs?

Art Levine

Labor

The Young and the Healthless? Unemployed ‘Milllennials’ Sicker than Older Workers

Akito Yoshikane

Labor

How Would You Like Brigido Oregon’s Job?

Stephen Franklin

Weekly Pulse: The Religious Right vs. Birth Control

Lindsay Beyerstein

Labor

Losing Another Working-Class Hero: Graphic Novelist Harvey Pekar Dies at 70

Richard Greenwald

Culture

Todd Solondz’s Dystopia in Suburbia

In his sixth film, Life During Wartime, the film director offers another twisted modern fairy tale that revels in taboos.

Michael Atkinson