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‘The Game Done Changed’: Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst the Baltimore Uprising

‘The Game Done Changed’: Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst the Baltimore Uprising ‘The Game Done Changed’: Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst the Baltimore Uprising

I was a Wire fanatic because I thought it told tough truths about Baltimore City. After the last two weeks, I’m starting to see all that it was missing.

May 4, 2015 / Dave Zirin

Why Did These Activists Shut Down the Guggenheim?

Why Did These Activists Shut Down the Guggenheim? Why Did These Activists Shut Down the Guggenheim?

The May Day occupation is part of an escalating campaign to get the Guggenheim to end the exploitation of migrant workers at the museum's Abu Dhabi site.

May 4, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Why Aren’t More Union Bosses Black Women?

Why Aren’t More Union Bosses Black Women? Why Aren’t More Union Bosses Black Women?

Black women have been labor movement faithfuls and today scramble to be unionized. So why aren’t there more in labor leadership?

May 1, 2015 / Dani McClain

Capitalism and Slavery

Capitalism and Slavery Capitalism and Slavery

Each generation seems condemned to have to prove the obvious anew: slavery created the modern world, and the modern world’s divisions are the product of slavery.

May 1, 2015 / Greg Grandin

Baltimore’s Inescapable Inequality

Baltimore’s Inescapable Inequality Baltimore’s Inescapable Inequality

What looks like a night of “chaos” in Baltimore was just one freeze-frame in a long arc of urban crisis.

May 1, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Other Fergusons, Other Baltimores

Other Fergusons, Other Baltimores Other Fergusons, Other Baltimores

Can we talk about the economic devastation of American cities and black communities before someone else is killed?

May 1, 2015 / Bryce Covert

Makayla Gilliam-Price and Baltimore’s Debt to a Remarkable Family

Makayla Gilliam-Price and Baltimore’s Debt to a Remarkable Family Makayla Gilliam-Price and Baltimore’s Debt to a Remarkable Family

If you want to understand what is happening in Baltimore, listen to Makayla Gilliam-Price and learn about her family.

May 1, 2015 / Dave Zirin

Defend Charlie Hebdo’s Publishing Disgusting Cartoons About Muslims? Yes. Give Them an Award for It? No.

Defend Charlie Hebdo’s Publishing Disgusting Cartoons About Muslims? Yes. Give Them an Award for It? No. Defend Charlie Hebdo’s Publishing Disgusting Cartoons About Muslims? Yes. Give Them an Award for It? No.

The issue is the cartoons—and what they mean to ordinary French Muslims.

May 1, 2015 / Jon Wiener

New ACLU Cellphone App Automatically Preserves Video of Police Encounters

New ACLU Cellphone App Automatically Preserves Video of Police Encounters New ACLU Cellphone App Automatically Preserves Video of Police Encounters

Even if the cops seize a phone and destroy it, the video will be saved.

May 1, 2015 / Jon Wiener

6 Degrees of Separation Between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton

6 Degrees of Separation Between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton 6 Degrees of Separation Between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton

The very different candidates for the Democratic nomination have a lot to debate.

Apr 30, 2015 / John Nichols

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