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anti-immigration protest

Republicans long ago embraced a whites-only political strategy—and continue to reap its rewards in Southern states.

FDR

How did a president beloved by Jews come to be regarded as an anti-Semite who refused to save them from the Nazis?

Iraq Veterans Against the War and human rights organizations in both the US and Iraq are collecting signatures for a petition to pressure the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to hold a hearing on the human rights impacts of US wars.

Server room

Russian lawmakers claim it would curb US access to Russian Internet data. But the real goal, critics say, would be to enable greater Russian surveillance over online activist activity.

Obama

The making of the US surveillance state, 1898–2020.

Standing up against the institutionalized racial discrimination that made the Zimmerman verdict possible.

What a country's treatment of its own citizens says about how it will treat non-citizens.

Blogs

Jimmy Kimmel shows they don’t get that O’care=ACA.

 

October 2, 2013

I'm joining NARAL Pro-Choice America as a member of their board of directors, and I'm excited to work with their new initiatives to include young people.

October 2, 2013

Is our employer-based healthcare system hurting our economy and culture by keeping too many creatives and entrepreneurs tied to their jobs?

October 2, 2013

Would the Tampa Bay Buccaneers leak confidential information that implied one of their own players was on drugs as a way to deflect attention from another wretched season?

October 1, 2013

Two blasts from the past in NYC mayor’s race, but media see only one explosion.

October 1, 2013

The newspapers trade barbs and allegations over Al Qaeda leaks that occurred in August.

October 1, 2013

Prison phone companies like Global Tel* Link get away with charging prisoners exorbitant rates just to keep in touch with their families. Tell the Federal Communications Commission to end this predatory practice. 

October 1, 2013

Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States will be rereleased this month on DVD; it tells a different story than the school textbooks we're used to.

October 1, 2013

Standing up for your right to be denied health coverage. 

October 1, 2013

A leading critic has called on a leading publisher to withdraw and reissue a new book.

September 30, 2013
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