The governor’s attack on “cross-endorsements” is really a ploy to ban the pesky third party that stands up to corporate interests.
It’s a tough one, but it ought to John Kerry’s top priority.
Demanding a living wage of $15 per hour, employees at Macy’s, Subway, McDonald’s, Victoria’s Secret and more have walked off the job.
The annual Ridenhour Prizes recognize acts of truth-telling that protect the public interest, promote social justice or illuminate a more just vision of society.
In the wake of 9/11 and Boston, is it even possible to imagine a movie that makes civil liberties an integral part of its dramatic arc?
In Israel, an architectural competition and its winner have been sabotaged by the bad faith of its sponsors.
A history of how risk management profits from manufacturing new forms of uncertainty and insecurity.
How did everything a writer had known and loved come violently apart?
Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder, Derek Cinfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines, Brian Helgeland’s 42
Whistleblowing while you work; jocks’ rape culture; gay marriage: outdated from the start?; Anthony Lewis and Noam Chomsky
Time to ditch the word ‘choice’?; act locally; the barbarism of empire; corrections and clarification
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
As the school year draws to an end, activists fear that this tuition decision marks the end of free higher education in the United States.
While Congress debates, President Obama could make a real difference in the lives of the 11 million undocumented immigrants who have made their home in the United States.
Under a Democratic administration's military crusade, the US is putting out a global warrant for its own attack.
Rooting out "thinspiration" in social media is a start, but we must not turn "thinspo" into a scapegoat.
A fundraising letter obtained by The Nation lays out right-wing efforts in Pennsylvania to go after labor unions.
The Senate Finance Committee chair who often clashed with party progressives and populists is quitting. A very different Democrat might replace him.
Who were the al-Awlakis, and why did the US kill them?
What do we know—and not know—about the US’s covert, extrajudicial ops?
The United States has dropped millions of cluster bombs on other countries that continue to kill today.
Budget cuts arise because of crises, not vice versa. Will congressional Republicans ever learn?
With the killing of Awlaki, the president of the United States became judge, jury and executioner for American citizens.
The media, the austerity-hawks and the government should all just give up.
The FBI needs to release its Tsarnaev file.


