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What's Left Out of Black History Month Celebrations

More than a quarter of African-Americans live in poverty. This month, we should speak truthfully about the economic legacy that drives this inequality.

Sean Thomas-Breitfeld

Replacing History With Fiction in Arizona
The authors of Arizona’s new law want to collapse Latino identity into white American mythology.
Gary Younge
Posted 02/13/2012
Sheldon Adelson and the End of American Anti-Semitism
How can it be that the “richest Jew in the world” can buy the foreign policy of a major party’s presidential contender and “the Jews” have somehow escaped the blame?
Eric Alterman
Posted 02/13/2012
The Komen Turnaround Was a Defensive Victory
Forcing the Komen reversal was huge—but it was a campaign born of outrage, not ambitious vision.
The Editors
Posted 02/13/2012

Articles

News and Features

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Online Feminism's Big Win Against Komen for the Cure (Reproductive Rights, Activism, Gender and Sexuality)

With Karen Handel's resignation, online feminism's victory against the giant cancer charity is complete.

Jessica Valenti
An Apple store in China
Sure, Apple Could Build the iPhone Here (Labor, Outsourcing and off shoring, Society)

Steve Jobs told Obama that Apple manufacturing jobs are never coming back to the US. Really?

Alexander Cockburn
The GOP's New Southern Strategy
How the GOP Is Resegregating the South (Conservatives and the American Right, Electoral Politics, Race and Religion)

Republicans are using the redistricting process to undermine minority voting power and ensure their party's dominance.

Ari Berman
Barack Obama
Obama Stands Up to Bishops. Finally. (Barack Obama, Religion, Reproductive Rights)

Shouldn't it be obvious that birth control coverage is about women's health, not “religious freedom”?

Katha Pollitt
UFW flag
Looking Back at the UFW, a Union With Two Souls (Labor, Unions, History, Society)

A Q&A with Frank Bardacke, whose new book Trampling Out the Vintage complicates the legend and legacy of Cesar Chavez.

Gabriel Thompson

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