Please, Democrats: Don’t Attack Bernie Sanders for Joining Your Party Please, Democrats: Don’t Attack Bernie Sanders for Joining Your Party
Martin O’Malley is trying to score points by attacking socialist Sanders for running as a Democrat. That will only hurt his party.
Nov 9, 2015 / Joan Walsh
The Strange, True Story of the Man Whose Maid Was Worth Millions The Strange, True Story of the Man Whose Maid Was Worth Millions
Manju Das thought her future was secured when she went to work as the housekeeper for a wealthy corporate executive. Little did she realize how she was being used.
Nov 9, 2015 / Feature / Nilita Vachani
November 9, 1989: The Berlin Wall Falls November 9, 1989: The Berlin Wall Falls
“The ideological morticians are wrong in assuming that this death of an epoch heralds a capitalist eternity.”
Nov 9, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Black Mizzou Football Players Are Going on Strike Over Campus Racism Black Mizzou Football Players Are Going on Strike Over Campus Racism
In a game changer that could bring down a university president, the Missouri football players are showing just how powerful their labor is.
Nov 8, 2015 / Dave Zirin
November 8, 1923: Adolf Hitler Attempts a Coup in Germany—the ‘Beer Hall Putsch’ November 8, 1923: Adolf Hitler Attempts a Coup in Germany—the ‘Beer Hall Putsch’
“Hitler, firing melodramatically into the air to force attention from a feverish crowd, has lost his glamor.”
Nov 8, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
November 7, 1929: The Museum of Modern Art Opens in New York City November 7, 1929: The Museum of Modern Art Opens in New York City
“If it really tries to show the best that is being done in the modern world irrespective of what happens to be in fashion, it has a chance to help create new standards.”
Nov 7, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
The Republican Debate Fiasco Is About to Get Dumb and Dumber The Republican Debate Fiasco Is About to Get Dumb and Dumber
Arbitrary decisions are sending candidates who actually have something to say to oblivion.
Nov 6, 2015 / John Nichols
Can Clinton Mend Fences With Netanyahu? Can Clinton Mend Fences With Netanyahu?
The Democratic presidential hopeful says she can make it right with Israel’s conservative prime minister, but offers no specifics.
Nov 6, 2015 / Ali Gharib
President Obama Says No to Keystone XL President Obama Says No to Keystone XL
The decision is a major victory for the climate movement, which transformed the dirty-energy project from an inevitability into a powerful organizing tool.
Nov 6, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Now White People Are Dying From Our Terrible Economic Policies, Too Now White People Are Dying From Our Terrible Economic Policies, Too
As the “middle class” hollows out, whites who started life under relatively promising circumstances are finally seeing the floor fall out under them.
Nov 6, 2015 / Michelle Chen