Just Say Yes to Common Sense on Pot Policy Just Say Yes to Common Sense on Pot Policy
California voters should pass Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana for adults.
Oct 27, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
UBC’s Downtown Eastside Gamelan Project UBC’s Downtown Eastside Gamelan Project
Students discover the healing powers of music in Canada's poorest neighourbood
Oct 26, 2010 / StudentNation / Will Tao
Jurassic Ballot Jurassic Ballot
Like the monsters in a Hollywood movie, corporations are attacking our democracy.
Oct 25, 2010 / Rebecca Solnit
The Breakdown: How Will Citizens United Shape Our Democracy? The Breakdown: How Will Citizens United Shape Our Democracy?
Lawrence Lessig talks to Chris Hayes about what progressives can do to combat the destructive effects of corporate money in elections.
Oct 21, 2010 / Chris Hayes
Foreclosure Fraud Fallout Foreclosure Fraud Fallout
As long as Obama allows banks to write their own rules on foreclosure, he's a willful participant in their ongoing scam.
Oct 20, 2010 / Kai Wright
Fight for Your Right to Vote for CEO Pay Fight for Your Right to Vote for CEO Pay
The Chamber of Commerce and other big business groups are lobbying the US Securities and Exchange Commission to change the rules, allowing corporations more control over the voting...
Oct 20, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Former Fannie Mae Lobbyist Tom Donilon to Become National Security Adviser Former Fannie Mae Lobbyist Tom Donilon to Become National Security Adviser
Why would President Obama, whose legacy has been sabotaged by a housing crisis that Tom Donilon helped create and conceal, hire him to run the most sensitive position of public t...
Oct 20, 2010 / Robert Scheer
Commentary: Betsy Reed on Lou Dobbs’s Immigration Contradictions Commentary: Betsy Reed on Lou Dobbs’s Immigration Contradictions
All the attention given to Dobbs's hypocrisy risks obscuring the deeper lesson to learn from this case: that undocumented workers are so thoroughly woven into the fabric of our e...
Oct 19, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
Learning From Lou Dobbs’s Hypocrisy Learning From Lou Dobbs’s Hypocrisy
Fighting for the labor rights of undocumented workers will improve the working conditions for all Americans, argues Isabel Macdonald in the Guardian.
Oct 19, 2010 / Press Room
Robert Scheer Takes Down the Architects of the Financial Crisis Robert Scheer Takes Down the Architects of the Financial Crisis
According to a review just published in the Los Angeles Times, Scheers new book breaks down the economic policy decisions that created the financial crisis, and calls out the men w...
Oct 18, 2010 / Press Room