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What if creating a more just world requires a radical reimagining of our political and economic system?

EMILY's List Madam President video

Feminism is not any single person or outcome, it’s a practice, and a far more active one than Valenti gives credit for.

Barack Obama

Prosecution of whistleblowers, dragnet seizure of phone records, the threatened criminalization of basic news-gathering—it’s dangerous for the media, and dangerous for democracy.

Associated Press offices

The uproar over government searches of media phone records should not obscure the deeper problem—the law’s failure to protect the privacy of all of us in the digital age.

From student walkouts in Philly and Chicago to union organizing and MOOCs in California, here are the latest reports by our student activist/writers.

Reports of President Obama’s demise turn out to be greatly exaggerated.

Facebook

Social media companies say consumers’ loss of privacy is just the cost of doing business. But what would happen if they actually had to bargain with users on equal footing?

Make the Road New York

From stopping wage theft to organizing carwasheros, victories have come from meeting workers where they live.

John Kitzhaber

This third-term governor is rethinking healthcare and education with holistic, community-based programs.

photo of Janet Malcolm

The war between democracy and aristocracy in Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts.

Blogs

Start your day with the best and worst of the media, from cable news to Web-only, in our daily feature from the new Media Fix blog.  Updates every afternoon.

May 7, 2010

On Tift Merrit, Paul Thorn and the mail.

May 6, 2010

The Nation's sports correspondent, Dave Zirin, appears on Democracy Now! giving a history lesson of protest and sports and the recent news of "Los Suns" protesting Arizona's anti-immigration law.

May 6, 2010

The FCC must ensure Big Telecom cannot manipulate what we can access on the web for their own profits.

May 6, 2010

In a strong column that suggested trumped-up WMD evidence had led to a just-concluded war, the New York Times columnist revealed that an unnamed envoy had been sent to Africa to probe the "uranum deal." 

May 5, 2010

The former First Lady, as a teen, ran a stop sign and caused a fatal car crash.  In her new memoir  she talks about it at last, but it's pretty ho-hum (like the rest of the book) for local journalists.

May 5, 2010

Check out two Nation contributors on MSNBC tonight, talking Times Square and the politics of BP. 

May 5, 2010

Start your day with the best and worst of the media, from cable news to Web-only, in our daily feature from the new Media Fix blog.  Updates every afternoon.

May 5, 2010

Under increasing pressure from players, protesting fans, and civil rights leaders, Bud Selig needs to decide whether Major League Baseball will challenge Arizona's draconian anti-immigrant SB 1070 law, or acquiesce to it.

May 4, 2010

In recent months, the New York Times columnist has repeatedly taken on the Tea Party and other rightwing elements. How does he deal with "red-hot" blowback?

May 4, 2010
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