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Spread the word about the new fight for expanded abortion access and the need to repeal the Hyde Amendment.
The greater Middle East’s greatest rebuff to Uncle Sam.
As Congress lurches toward a government shutdown, the media dabbles in false equivalence.
The city of Washington lacks budget autonomy, so local officials are forced to cobble together a shutdown response. Why?
The new Iranian president, who won big in June’s election, has a mandate to proceed with a deal.
This week: the growing viability of wind power, an investigation into fake online reviews, and the shocking treatment of Nepalese workers at the site of the 2022 World Cup.
Does anyone possess the ego and angst of Walter White on the sports landscape? You had better believe it. Dave Zirin tackles the how we focus on the wrong issues in confronting recent steroid scandals.
A letter signed by over seventy right-wing lawmakers was authored by a medical device tax industry group, metadata shows.
In a brilliant 1996 essay, political theorist Sheldon Wolin connected austerity economics to a broader Republican philosophy of governance--or lack thereof.
New Jersey judge says state must allow same-sex marriage. But the Republican governor fights to maintain discrimination.
The right salivates over the “news” that the NYC mayoral hopeful once visited Nicaragua and that, for a yearbook photo, didn’t wear a tie.
Following the release of the IPCC’s landmark global warming report, progressives should challenge the cruelty behind climate deniers” politics, not the weakness of their science.
What's the point of having a background check system if all you need to purchase a gun is an e-mail address?
And that the US government kept secret for years afterward.
Eric Alterman’s weekly media round-up.
The House GOP is holding America hostage with the same agenda that lost them the election.
As the semester rolls on, fast-tracked teachers, vouchers and corporate-friendly Democrats get roasted.
Poverty Day--the one day every year when the mainstream media turns its attention to the poor--was last week. Here are five things you might have missed amidst the frenzy of coverage.
No one feels a sense of moral superiority when talking about their own discrimination.
The House Republican plan to hold the debt ceiling hostage in exchange for over twenty corporate giveaways violates their ethics pledge, which calls for advancing major legislation only “one issue at a time.”
Early Thursday afternoon on the West Coast, Governor Jerry Brown tweeted a message: “Today, I signed a bill to help California’s domestic workers.”
More than two years setting puzzles for The Nation
At a meeting with Wall Street big shots today, Elizabeth Warren plead for more action to avert debt-ceiling disaster.
Prabhjot Singh’s clemency toward his at-large attackers should be admired, not taken as a sign of weakness.
Sarah Palin’s main political adviser used a dark-money group to finance undisclosed campaign ads last year, new documents show.
