Why They Won
The Verizon workers’ campaign for union democracy set the stage for a successful strike.
20383 Article(s) by: Elizabeth Mahony
Do No Harm
Psychologists should reject their growing role in death-penalty sentencing.
Design for the One Percent
Contemporary architecture is more interested in mega projects for elites than improving ordinary people’s lives.
Temer’s Black Thumb
Brazil’s right-wing interim government will set the country on a path of wholesale environmental destruction.
Mitterrand’s War
For François Mitterrand, France’s atrocities in Algeria were stepping-stones to power.
The Hidden History of Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali’s resistance to racism and war belongs not only to the 1960s, but the common future of humanity.
Degrees of Austerity
Inside the budget crisis affecting the largest urban university in the United States and the half million students it serves.
Misremembering Keynes
The postwar order that emerged from the Great Depression was as fragile as it was prosperous.
The Body Cam Trade-Off
Challenging police violence shouldn’t require black Americans to sacrifice their privacy.
Redeeming Chávez’s Dream
The Chavista bureaucracy is betraying Chávez’s legacy. But the Bolivarian Revolution’s movements can carry on the fight.
The Mercenary University
NYU’s Abu Dhabi campus puts a liberal gloss on labor abuse and political repression in the UAE.
A Place to Live For
The ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan obscures the needs of workers in both countries.
What Bernie Supporters Want
The Sanders campaign has been driven by class politics, not white male angst.
The Moral Meat Market
Whole Foods’s animal-welfare violations show how hollow the rhetoric of corporate responsibility is.
45 Days of Solidarity
How Verizon workers outmatched the country’s largest telecommunications company.
Defending the Faith
The Catholic Church waged a century-long war against the Irish left.
When Soldiers Resist
This Memorial Day, let’s remember the courageous war resisters who said no to the slaughter in Vietnam.