Front page from April 18, 2013

The horrific tragedy in Boston is also a reminder of the victims of violence inflicted by the U.S. around the globe.

The climate justice movement has to confront not only the free market, but a political system warped by corporate power.

Hundreds of thousands of students took part in a mass march in one of the largest protests since the fall of Pinochet.

A judge has given dozens of prisoners hope that they may get their day in court to prove that they were tortured by Chicago police.

Margaret Thatcher decimated coal mining in Britain while she was alive--but Thatcherism remains after her death.

In the struggle over how the mass media frame the news, the reactionaries and Islamophobes haven't won.

In one state after another, anti-choice legislators are passing laws that could make abortion completely inaccessible for millions of women.

Pressure from the anti-choice fanatics in Ohio has put the last two abortion clinics in Toledo at risk of being closed.

U.S. provocations against North Korea are designed to dress up the Pentagon's "pivot to Asia" as a matter of self-defense.

It's never reported in the media, but the Obama administration's aggressive posture toward North Korea is a key factor in growing tensions.

LaJuana Lampkins was 24 years old when she was arrested, tortured by police and sentenced to 60 years in prison.

The streets of New York are still smoldering with anger after the police shooting of unarmed 16-year-old Kimani Gray.

Seattle Police Chief John Diaz resigned after facing intense criticism, not only from activists, but the Department of Justice.

The bitterly contested rerun of a union representation vote at Kaiser Permanente will have big implications for labor.

A candidate for president in the recent Long Beach teachers' union elections reflects on the outcome of the vote.

Within hours of Margaret Thatcher's death, people were celebrating in the streets of cities across Britain--and for good reason.

The same media that was appalled by celebrations of Margaret Thatcher's death didn't ask her victims what they thought.

Caitlin Adams learned about the injustices a Texas death row prisoner has endured--and decided to do something about it.

Any glance at British society makes it obvious who ran up all the debts and caused the banking crisis: The poor.

The author of an acclaimed graphic novel censored by the Chicago Public Schools talks about the controversy--and challenging the status quo.

Some on the left still cling to the idea that the Assad regime is progressive--even as it presides over violence and repression.

After years of criticism, the Associated Press is removing the term "illegal immigrant" from its influential AP Stylebook.

Lifting limits on special ed class sizes would allow illinois school districts to cut costs--at the expense of the most vulnerable.

Jackson's 1980s campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination showed the new hold of electoralism in Black politics.

In 1984, Margaret Thatcher and her government embarked on as tough and crude a class battle as had ever been attempted.

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