Blowing the Whistle on Government Recklessness Is Not a Crime Blowing the Whistle on Government Recklessness Is Not a Crime
Support Jeffrey Sterling and help resist the Obama administration’s attacks on whistleblowers.
Jan 7, 2015 / NationAction
Leonard Beerman Leonard Beerman
He was a fighter for social justice for sixty-five years.
Jan 7, 2015 / Jon Wiener
We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas. We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas.
In a country that has always used race to justify inequality, ending police brutality is just the start.
Jan 7, 2015 / Feature / Jesse A. Myerson and Mychal Denzel Smith
Mario Cuomo Was So Very Right—Especially on the Death Penalty Mario Cuomo Was So Very Right—Especially on the Death Penalty
The late New York governor made it his mission to speak up for a moral politics and governance.
Jan 2, 2015 / John Nichols
January 2, 1920: Anti-Radical Raids Across the Country, the First Red Scare January 2, 1920: Anti-Radical Raids Across the Country, the First Red Scare
After World War I, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer led a campaign to arrest, imprison and deport thousands of supposedly subversive political radicals. Almost 1,000 people were...
Jan 2, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
A Farewell to a Rabbi Who Mattered A Farewell to a Rabbi Who Mattered
Many will rightly remember Rabbi Leonard Beerman for his political and moral advocacy. My memories of him are of a more personal nature.
Dec 29, 2014 / Michele Willens
What Does It Mean to Be Anti-Police? What Does It Mean to Be Anti-Police?
Apparently, to criticize the police is to be anti-police. But if I call and point out that the swings in the playground are broken, am I anti-parks?
Dec 23, 2014 / Alex S. Vitale
The Day the Troops Refused to Fight: December 25, 1914 The Day the Troops Refused to Fight: December 25, 1914
It’s the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Truce of WWI.
Dec 23, 2014 / Jon Wiener
Why Climate Change Is Not Inevitable Why Climate Change Is Not Inevitable
As Ursula K. Le Guin reminds us, any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
Dec 23, 2014 / Rebecca Solnit
Zephyr Teachout, Hands Up United and John Oliver Made Our 2014 Progressive Honor Roll. Who Else Made the List? Zephyr Teachout, Hands Up United and John Oliver Made Our 2014 Progressive Honor Roll. Who Else Made the List?
From the huge climate march in September to racial-justice activism, it was a year that saw renewal of movement-based politics.
Dec 22, 2014 / Feature / John Nichols