January 19, 2016
How Iowa’s Independent Streak Explains Bernie Sanders’ Meteoric Rise
Iowans have a long history of breaking from party orthodoxy. Our reporting from the state shows that could be good news for Sanders on February 1. MORE
January 25, 2016
How Bernie Sanders Could Actually Pull Off an Upset in South Carolina
Surprising numbers of South Carolinians like Bernie—if they’ve heard of him MORE
February 1, 2016
Bernie Sanders’ Moment of Truth
Bernie’s political revolution reaches a decisive moment in the Iowa caucus. MORE
Features
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None of the Democratic Candidates Have Gotten Syria Right: Why They Should Be Talking Peace, Not War
Obama has finally taken a tentative path toward a viable solution–but may waffle without support MORE
By Stephen R. Weissman
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Not Your Grandfather's Black Freedom Movement: An Interview with BYP100's Charlene Carruthers
The 30-year-old radical black queer feminist who’s Rahm Emanuel’s worst nightmare MORE
By Salim Muwakkil
Act Locally
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New York's 'Carwasheros' Push for Safer, Fairer Workplaces
Car washes are the ‘wild, wild West” of workplace regulation. The Car Wash Accountability Act will improve that—if it is ever implemented MORE
By Jean Stevens
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The Group of Artists That's Winning Fair Pay By Targeting Nonprofits
Organizing artists can be like herding cats. That hasn’t stopped WAGE from fighting for fair pay for art. MORE
By Tom Ladendorf
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Is 'Female Viagra' Feminist?
A new drug divides the women’s health movement MORE
By Molly M. Ginty
Culture
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Take Two
You Probably Haven't Seen the Ten Best Films of 2015
They’re obscure, they’re poorly distributed—but you can track them down. It will be worth it. MORE
By Michael Atkinson
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Forget Techno-Optimism: We Can't Innovate Our Way Out of Inequality
Hillary Clinton’s former ‘senior advisor for innovation’ sees our Uber-ized future through rose-colored glasses MORE
By Chris Lehmann
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Tech Could Mean the End of Capitalism. But What Comes Next?
Paul Mason, ardent critic of neoliberalism, sees a new epoch ahead MORE
By Peter C. Grosvenor
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books
2,054 Days of Solitary Confinement
A punishment that’s cruel, but not unusual MORE
By Five Mualimm-Ak
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From the Old Country
Scattering Karl's Ashes
Learning to accept the inevitable MORE
By Jane Miller
Columnists
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Editorial
Bernie Sanders' Election Would Mean the End of 'Too Big To Fail' on Wall Street
Why have the power players of the Democratic Party allowed this to continue? MORE
By Larry Cohen
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Back Talk
How Donald Trump Hopes to John Wayne His Way Into the White House
Why the American Hero trope is so dangerous MORE
By Susan J. Douglas
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Public Defender
The Bizarre Experience of Agreeing with Trump
It’s no coincidence that Trump, the candidate least in need of money or media attention, is the most outspoken against war. MORE
By Leonard C. Goodman
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The Newspaper That Transformed Black America—And The Course of History
How an ambitious migrant came to Chicago and changed history with the power of journalism MORE
By Salim Muwakkil
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The First Stone
Rewriting the Progressive Playbook
To counter the resurgent Right, Wisconsin progressives are thinking big MORE
By Joel Bleifuss