Anita Hill, Reluctant Hero Anita Hill, Reluctant Hero

Hill didn’t want to have to speak for all of us, but she did. HBO’s Confirmation serves as yet another reminder that her voice continues to reverberate, even today.

Apr 17, 2016 / Kristal Brent Zook

A Voter’s Guide to Hillary Clinton’s Policies in Latin America A Voter’s Guide to Hillary Clinton’s Policies in Latin America

Support for coup regimes, militarization and privatization, trade deals that wreak economic havoc—they reveal the failure of Clintonism.

Apr 15, 2016 / Greg Grandin

The Average Woman Loses Over $10,000 Dollars Every Year to the Gender Pay Gap The Average Woman Loses Over $10,000 Dollars Every Year to the Gender Pay Gap

Apr 15, 2016 / Michelle Chen

40,000 Verizon Workers Launch One of the Biggest Strikes of the Decade 40,000 Verizon Workers Launch One of the Biggest Strikes of the Decade

Can the strike at Verizon help kickstart the American labor movement?

Apr 15, 2016 / Cole Stangler

Orwell in Puerto Rico: Congress ‘Promises’ a New Dictatorship Orwell in Puerto Rico: Congress ‘Promises’ a New Dictatorship

It says it’s going to resolve the island’s debt fairly, but the PROMESA bill establishes an authoritarian collection agency for hedge funders.

Apr 15, 2016 / Nelson Denis

Why Thousands of Nurses Are Feeling the Bern Why Thousands of Nurses Are Feeling the Bern

For nurses, everything begins with a basic dedication to their patients, which is why so many of them are supporting Bernie Sanders for president.

Apr 14, 2016 / RoseAnn DeMoro

Hundreds of People Are Getting Arrested For Democracy This Week Hundreds of People Are Getting Arrested For Democracy This Week

The Democracy Spring protests in DC are building the power needed to break our politics free of its corporate choke-hold.

Apr 14, 2016 / John Cavanagh

A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World

But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives.

Apr 14, 2016 / Feature / James Gustave Speth and J. Phillip Thompson III

The Solution to Higher Ed’s Bad Pay Is Unions The Solution to Higher Ed’s Bad Pay Is Unions

Unionized faculty earn about $21,000 more annually in pay and benefits than their non-unionized peers.

Apr 13, 2016 / StudentNation / Michelle Chen

There Goes the Neighborhood, Episode 6: Trickery, Fraud, and Deception in Brooklyn There Goes the Neighborhood, Episode 6: Trickery, Fraud, and Deception in Brooklyn

In the wild world of Brooklyn real estate, developers looking to cash in don’t always play by the rules.

Apr 13, 2016 / Podcast / There Goes the Neighborhood and Kai Wright