Was My Hat Made in a Factory Like Rana Plaza? Was My Hat Made in a Factory Like Rana Plaza?
A reader who unknowingly ordered hats from a Bangladeshi factory prompts a closer look into what we know about where and how our clothes are made.
May 10, 2013 / Elizabeth Cline
This Week in Poverty: Twelve Things You Can Do To Fight Poverty Now This Week in Poverty: Twelve Things You Can Do To Fight Poverty Now
It’s a tough moment in the fight against poverty, but twelve anti-poverty leaders have suggestions of what you can do right now to take action.
May 10, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
Fast Food Strike Wave Spreads to Detroit Fast Food Strike Wave Spreads to Detroit
The non-union fast food walkout follows similar actions in New York, Chicago and St. Louis.
May 10, 2013 / Josh Eidelson
A Petition That Just Might Save the Post Office A Petition That Just Might Save the Post Office
Congressman Peter DeFazio is calling on Americans to ask President Obama to stand up for rural post offices, urban sorting centers and an essential American service.
May 10, 2013 / John Nichols
Why Is Tom Corbett Speaking at Millersville’s Commencement? Why Is Tom Corbett Speaking at Millersville’s Commencement?
In a case of shaking-the-hand-that-slaps you, the Pennsylvania state school will host the Tea Party governor for its May 18 commencement. To whose benefit?
May 10, 2013 / StudentNation / James Cersonsky and StudentNation
Bill de Blasio: New York’s ‘Tale of Two Cities’ Bill de Blasio: New York’s ‘Tale of Two Cities’
As part of The Nation's mayoral candidate series, de Blasio gives his views on how to tackle economic inequality.
May 9, 2013 / The Nation
New Era Windows Opens for Business in Chicago New Era Windows Opens for Business in Chicago
Tired of their lives in other people’s hands, window makers started a co-op.
May 9, 2013 / Laura Flanders
Fast Food Workers Strike in St. Louis Fast Food Workers Strike in St. Louis
In the third walkout of its kind in five weeks, workers across the city are demanding a living wage of $15 per hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.
May 9, 2013 / Annie Shields
The Price: Sex, Death and Dhaka The Price: Sex, Death and Dhaka
Someone somewhere must die for the pleasure someone somewhere else takes in a $4.95 bikini top.
May 8, 2013 / JoAnn Wypijewski
Nietzsche’s Marginal Children: On Friedrich Hayek Nietzsche’s Marginal Children: On Friedrich Hayek
How did the conservative ideas of Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian school become our economic reality? By turning the market into the realm of great politics and morals.
May 7, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Corey Robin