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?

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

The national strike movement by low-wage workers came to Washington, D.C., with an action by federal contract workers.

A Rhode Island teacher's open letter to Rhode Island politicians asks who will stand up in defense of public education.

David Silva's death after a savage beating by Bakersfield sheriff's deputies is sparking outrage, despite alleged efforts by officials to cover it up.

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

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

A leading member of Portugal's Left Bloc discusses the opposition to austerity in Europe and the opportunities for the left.

The U.S. and Israel have been reluctant to lend any concrete support to the rebels trying to overthrow the Assad regime.

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.

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

The president's nominee for commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker, is involved in a constellation of ugly bourgeois misdoings.

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.

The resistance to environmental destruction must be connected with the struggle to defend the rights and sovereignty of Native peoples.

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.

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

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.

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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.