The Absurd, Cowardly, and Morally Bankrupt NLRB Decision Against the Northwestern Football Union The Absurd, Cowardly, and Morally Bankrupt NLRB Decision Against the Northwestern Football Union
The National Labor Relations Board may have ruled against the Northwestern football players’ efforts to organize, but this fight is far from over.
Aug 17, 2015 / Dave Zirin
Equality: Why We Can’t Wait Equality: Why We Can’t Wait
In a 1991 special issue, Julian Bond argued that the fight for racial and gender equality wasn’t a “special interest”—it was essential to the progressive struggle.
Aug 17, 2015 / Julian Bond and Adolph Reed Jr.
What Julian Bond Taught Me What Julian Bond Taught Me
Freedom movements don’t just happen, they are made—and not by charismatic leaders, but by everyday people possessing great courage.
Aug 17, 2015 / Jeanne Theoharis
Honor Julian Bond’s Legacy by Protecting Voting Rights Honor Julian Bond’s Legacy by Protecting Voting Rights
The civil rights leader helped pass the Voting Rights Act and fought for voting rights over five decades.
Aug 17, 2015 / Ari Berman
Julian Bond Built Coalitions, Practiced Solidarity, and Showed Us the Future Julian Bond Built Coalitions, Practiced Solidarity, and Showed Us the Future
When the civil-rights leader was nominated for vice president in 1968, we got a glimpse of the new politics.
Aug 17, 2015 / John Nichols
Hurricane Katrina and the Revival of the Political Athlete Hurricane Katrina and the Revival of the Political Athlete
After Hurricane Katrina, athletes spoke out in rage for the first time in decades. It can’t stop and it won’t stop.
Aug 14, 2015 / Dave Zirin
VIDEO: Hurricane Katrina Didn’t Kill New Orleans—But It Almost Did VIDEO: Hurricane Katrina Didn’t Kill New Orleans—But It Almost Did
A new documentary shows how the city has changed in the decade since the storm—and also how it hasn’t.
Aug 14, 2015 / Laura Flanders and Jordan Flaherty
Plummeting Oil Prices Might Be Good News for the Planet Plummeting Oil Prices Might Be Good News for the Planet
Could we be witnessing a fundamental shift in the energy industry?
Aug 13, 2015 / Michael T. Klare
Are Graduate Students ‘Workers’? Are Graduate Students ‘Workers’?
Not according to a new ruling against students at the New School.
Aug 13, 2015 / Michelle Chen
The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction
The Internet gives us an unearned relation to the present, and the visual art of JR is perfectly aligned with it.
Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy