Brian Ward Killing Cove Point A plan to build the East Coast's first liquefied natural gas export center at Cove Point poses a major threat to the environment.
Scott McLemee Our incarceration nation Long-term, mass incarceration has become routinized and integrated into the routine functioning of American society.
Dave Zirin The World Cup crackdown The World Cup story the U.S. media won't tell is about an angry population terrorized into compliance by the Brazilian government.
Lee Sustar Can the teachers’ unions come back? The NEA and AFT conventions this month come amid a growing debate over how teachers' unions can resist corporate education reform.
Speech Confronting the counterrevolution in Egypt We are dealing with a huge setback for Egypt's revolution--but in every battle we lose, we must learn the lessons.
Ali Abunimah Is being pro-Palestine a crime? Los Angeles police assaulted a well-known Palestinian rights activist as he interviewed supporters of Israel at their picket.
Leela Yellesetty Dramatizing the gulag state Orange Is the New Black focuses on one of the fastest-growing demographics in our sprawling prison empire: women.
Mark Steel Bulldozing favelas for FIFA In the Favela de Metro, near the Maracanã stadium, families were forced out at gunpoint in preparation for the World Cup.
Justin Akers Chacón Children forced on a dangerous journey It is an indictment of U.S. government policy that thousands of young migrants, in their teens and younger, are treated as criminals and undesirables.
Brian Ward Fighting the pipeline menace The American ruling class is invested in finishing the Keystone pipeline--but the fight against it has continued building.
