The Department of Homeland Security’s ‘Baby Jails’ The Department of Homeland Security’s ‘Baby Jails’
In the wake of last summer’s migrant crisis, DHS is still keeping families in detention centers. What could go wrong?
Oct 23, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Tell Congress to Make Corporations Pay Their Taxes Tell Congress to Make Corporations Pay Their Taxes
Join The Nation, the Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund, Courage Campaign and 14 other organizations in calling on Congress to close corporate tax loopholes.
Oct 22, 2015 / NationAction
The 5 Books You Need to Read to Understand Gentrification The 5 Books You Need to Read to Understand Gentrification
Here’s how it works.
Oct 22, 2015 / DW Gibson
October 22, 1907: The Panic of 1907 Begins October 22, 1907: The Panic of 1907 Begins
“What have we seen in New York during the past half-dozen years? Great banking institutions prostituted into tools of unscrupulous speculators.”
Oct 22, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
How Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Democratic Socialism How Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Democratic Socialism
Instead of looking to Europe, Sanders could evoke the rich heritage of American radicalism.
Oct 21, 2015 / Eric Foner
She Came to the US, Was Forced Into Indentured Servitude, and Now Faces Deportation She Came to the US, Was Forced Into Indentured Servitude, and Now Faces Deportation
Why won’t Immigration Services provide relief for this abused guestworker?
Oct 21, 2015 / Michelle Chen
If You Thought the Reproductive-Health Crisis in Texas Couldn’t Get Worse, Well… If You Thought the Reproductive-Health Crisis in Texas Couldn’t Get Worse, Well…
The state’s move to cut Planned Parenthood off Medicaid funding will further limit poor women’s access to care.
Oct 20, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Justin Trudeau Just Showed American Democrats How to Win the Next Election Justin Trudeau Just Showed American Democrats How to Win the Next Election
Promises to tax the rich and to make infrastructure investment a priority—along with an embrace of diversity—beat the right in Canada.
Oct 20, 2015 / John Nichols
Exxon Knew Everything There Was to Know About Climate Change by the Mid-1980s—and Denied It Exxon Knew Everything There Was to Know About Climate Change by the Mid-1980s—and Denied It
And thanks to their willingness to sucker the world, the world is now a chaotic mess.
Oct 20, 2015 / Bill McKibben
Why We Need to Take Care of the Workers Behind Home Health Care Why We Need to Take Care of the Workers Behind Home Health Care
Turnover in the home-based health-care industry is as high as 60 percent. We need to change that.
Oct 19, 2015 / Michelle Chen