National

  • What's in the climate change bill?

    Two Democrats have unveiled a proposal to curb greenhouse gas emissions--but will the Obama administration fight for it?

  • The racist face of the housing crisis

    The media scapegoated Blacks for the housing crisis all along, but Bloomberg Businessweek took racism to a new level.

  • The attack of the frackademics

    Barack Obama's nominee for Energy Secretary supports fracking--and he's not the only academic who crossed the line between science and propaganda.

  • The wrong reforms for our schools

    We don't want public schools organized around Corporate America's priorities for how our children should be educated.

  • A story of pre-emptive arrest

    The entire court system has recognized police violations of basic civil liberties during the 2008 Republican National Convention.

  • Why labor should oppose the pipeline

    The co-president of National Nurses United explains why stopping the Keystone XL pipeline would benefit all workers.

  • Persecuting the victim

    Landen Gambill has been victimized twice--once by her rapist, then by her university. But she refuses to be silenced about the need to confront sexual assault.

  • Arch-foe of New York City workers

    Former New York Mayor Edward Koch has been eulogized, sanitized and whitewashed, but he was always an enemy of workers.

  • Violence and a Chicago high school

    SocialistWorker.org provides a supplement to the gut-wrenching This American Life show on gun violence in Chicago.

  • What we learned from SAFE California

    A California prisoner looks at why a ballot measure to abolish the death penalty failed--and the lessons we should learn.

  • Sagging pants are not a crime

    Boston antiracists have issued a statement responding to the call for a crackdown on Black youth wearing their pants too low.

  • The truth about Common Core

    The latest corporate school reform scheme is a step toward national testing--and puts kids on a treadmill to be obedient workers.

  • Rahm's scorched-earth assault on our schools

    In Chicago, 129 elementary schools are on the chopping block--the latest battle in a war on public education that will have ramifications across the U.S.

  • Still no justice for Al-Arian

    Ten years after the the unjust arrest of Dr. Sami Al-Arian on trumped-up terrorism charges, why is he still under house arrest?

  • The crime of "saggy pants"?

    A Black organization in Boston is calling for the criminalization of young men who wear their pants too low.

  • What will stop the violence in Oakland?

    Two residents of Oakland have some proposals for how to confront the seemingly unstoppable spike in crime and violence.

  • Using a tragedy to attack our rights

    Anti-choice fanatics are using the tragic death of a young woman to further their assault on abortion providers.

  • A law to silence dangerous ideas

    An Arizona teacher involved in the struggle against the state ban on ethnic studies in public schools spoke in Massachusetts.

  • Hate crime against a child

    The typical media image of racist attackers is that they are "low class" hooligans--but Joe Hundley is far from the fringe.

  • Why is Bradley Manning still in prison?

    Bradley Manning has exposed war crimes and helped end wars. He deserves our thanks, not more prison time.

  • We are all still Trayvon Martin

    The murder of a 17-year-old in Florida one year ago shattered the idea that the U.S. had become, since the election of a Black president, a post-racial society.

  • Washington plays politics on immigration

    The conventional wisdom is that "immigration reform" will pass Congress. But we should be skeptical about whether it will meet immigrants' needs.

  • When will his nightmare end?

    On February 23, Bradley Manning will have spent 1,000 days in a military prison for the "crime" of alerting the public to America's war atrocities.

  • Samer Issawi must be freed

    Israel is refusing to release a Palestinian political prisoner who is in critical condition after more than 210 days on hunger strike.

  • Proven innocent and still in prison

    Daniel Taylor has been sitting in an Illinois prison for more than half his life for a crime he couldn't have committed.