The fact that most schools in Oklahoma don't have storm shelters shows how the system prepares for disasters--it doesn't.

Thousands took the streets in Greenwich Village to protests the anti-LGBT attack that killed Mark Carson.

Some 2,000 Philadelphia students took action to protest racist school closures that will ravage the school district.

Two hundred people turned out on May 6 to mark the one-year anniversary of Alan Blueford's murder by Oakland police.

Benny Warr was sitting in his wheelchair waiting for the bus when Rochester police told him to leave--and then beat him.

Karl Marx took issue with how Pierre-Joseph Proudhon formulated his ideas as a strategy for social change.

A young woman explains why she feels it's important to talk about having an abortion--and why she won't be silenced.

Why is Barack Obama's Justice Department appealing a judge's order that would make the morning-after pill more accessible to all women?

Some elite voices are challenging the ruling class consensus in favor of austerity--but that doesn't mean the cuts will end.

Commentators are using the W-word--Watergate--in connection with Barack Obama's latest scandals. Is that too harsh?

Barack Obama's willingness to give ground to Republicans while kicking the Democrats' base in the teeth has come into particularly sharp focus.

Barack Obama has had more than four years to close Guantánamo--but it's taken a hunger strike by prisoners to get even another promise.

Activists are organizing to defend day laborers in New Jersey from harassment by anti-immigrant groups.

Angelina Jolie's announcement should open up a public discussion about lack of access to life-saving health care.

With the death toll from the Bangladesh factory collapse at over 1,100, it's time to protect the living from future "accidents."

Like his grandfather, Malcolm Shabazz died far too young and with far too much unfinished work in front of him.

A New York City judge has tossed out manslaughter charges against the NYPD officer who killed Ramarley Graham.

Activists with the Anti-Monsanto Project will march in California's capital against the genetically modified seed company.

Michael Bloomberg's increasingly strange statements about stop-and-frisk rest on an assertion that cops are there to stop crime.

LGBT veteran and whistleblower Bradley Manning belongs at the head of San Francisco's LGBT Pride parade.

The site of the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890--land considered sacred by the Lakota tribe--just went up for sale.

A new book on Chávez's Venezuela casts light on the relationship between the radical president and the struggle from below.

When she pointed out sexism at her campus, a University of Connecticut student became the target of abuse.

Youth sports are tragically lacking in the very quality that they are supposed to promote: good sportsmanship. But why?

In 1879, a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune sat down with the "cornerstone of modern socialism" for an interview.

The barbarism of war and the tyranny of Tsarist rule inspired the Russian working class to rebellion in February 1917.

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A fake e-mail sent to the Hampshire College community raised issues about what the American flag means to international students.