World Governments Subsidize the Burning of Fossil Fuels to the Tune of $10 Million a Minute World Governments Subsidize the Burning of Fossil Fuels to the Tune of $10 Million a Minute
According to a new IMF study, we’re subsidizing the digging of our own graves.
May 21, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard
Do Police Have a Right to Withhold Video When They Kill Someone? Do Police Have a Right to Withhold Video When They Kill Someone?
When the police kill somebody, it’s not “private.”
May 21, 2015 / Jon Wiener
Here Are the Navy’s Plans to Bomb the Arctic Here Are the Navy’s Plans to Bomb the Arctic
The waters of the Gulf of Alaska are some of the most pristine in the world. That will change next month.
May 21, 2015 / Dahr Jamail
May 21, 1961: Famously Hospitable Southerners Greet Freedom Riders With Death Threats and Riots May 21, 1961: Famously Hospitable Southerners Greet Freedom Riders With Death Threats and Riots
“Boy, what you got to smile about? You in jail, you know.” “Sheriff,” he answered, “you just wouldn’t understand. I’m smiling because I&rs...
May 21, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
Is the NSA’s Dragnet Surveillance Program in Its Final Hours? Is the NSA’s Dragnet Surveillance Program in Its Final Hours?
With less than 24 hours to act on surveillance reform, things in the Senate have gotten dramatic.
May 20, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
‘Jimmy From the Block’ Just Beat the Billionaires ‘Jimmy From the Block’ Just Beat the Billionaires
Nominated for mayor of Philadelphia, a progressive teaches a lesson about coalition politics.
May 20, 2015 / John Nichols
How Defunding Derails Our Infrastructure How Defunding Derails Our Infrastructure
John Boehner claims public financing had nothing to do with the Amtrak disaster, but like so many others, it can be directly traced to funding shortfalls.
May 20, 2015 / John Nichols
Why We Need to Take Sy Hersh’s bin Laden Bombshell Seriously Why We Need to Take Sy Hersh’s bin Laden Bombshell Seriously
The dean of American investigative journalism knows a thing or two about how to vet sources and separate fact from fiction.
May 20, 2015 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Proof That Centrism is Dead The Proof That Centrism is Dead
Every story that centrists told about the recession turned out to be wrong.
May 20, 2015 / Mike Konczal
An Unsettling Sentence An Unsettling Sentence
On Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the federal death penalty.
May 20, 2015 / Bruce Shapiro