It’s Election Day in Philadelphia: Will a Trio of Wealthy School ‘Reformers’ Buy the Mayor’s Race? It’s Election Day in Philadelphia: Will a Trio of Wealthy School ‘Reformers’ Buy the Mayor’s Race?
Six weeks after Rahm Emanuel defeated populist, pro-teacher candidate Chuy Garcia in Chicago, public-school advocates are mobilizing for victory in Philly.
May 19, 2015 / Daniel Denvir
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the End of Innocence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the End of Innocence
Let’s fight for the right to make horrible mistakes, but remain in the realm of the living.
May 18, 2015 / Debbie Nathan
Bosses Are Turning Poverty-Wage Workers Into ‘Managers’—and Barring Them From Overtime in the Process Bosses Are Turning Poverty-Wage Workers Into ‘Managers’—and Barring Them From Overtime in the Process
Employers exploit legal loopholes to keep poverty-wage workers from earning overtime wages.
May 18, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Students Walk Out for Community College, Hunger Strike for Janitors, and Mass for Tony Robinson Students Walk Out for Community College, Hunger Strike for Janitors, and Mass for Tony Robinson
As the semester ends, the action ramps up.
May 18, 2015 / StudentNation / StudentNation
The United States Is Sponsoring an Army That Recruits Child Soldiers The United States Is Sponsoring an Army That Recruits Child Soldiers
American law prevents military aid to countries that employ child soldiers—but that hasn’t stopped us in South Sudan.
May 18, 2015 / Nick Turse
May 18, 1917: Congress Passes the Selective Service Act, Instituting a Mandatory Military Draft May 18, 1917: Congress Passes the Selective Service Act, Instituting a Mandatory Military Draft
"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty, and Christian teaching."
May 18, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
May 17, 1954: Supreme Court Rules Segregation Unconstitutional in ‘Brown v. Board of Ed.’ May 17, 1954: Supreme Court Rules Segregation Unconstitutional in ‘Brown v. Board of Ed.’
"The decision was a fine antidote to the blight of McCarthyism and kindred fevers."
May 17, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
May 16, 1918: Congress Passes the Sedition Act May 16, 1918: Congress Passes the Sedition Act
"A vast enthusiasm for new laws and a vast indifference after their enactment is very much the American [way]."
May 16, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
‘Good Kill’: Drone Pilots Get PTSD, Civilians Die Nameless ‘Good Kill’: Drone Pilots Get PTSD, Civilians Die Nameless
A new movie from Andrew Niccol stars Ethan Hawke as a pilot fighting terrorists from the ’burbs of Las Vegas.
May 15, 2015 / Ali Gharib
Why Are the Rohingya Risking Everything to Flee Burma? Why Are the Rohingya Risking Everything to Flee Burma?
Stateless refugees from Burma are risking death, rape, and drowning by the thousands on a perilous escape to Malaysia.
May 15, 2015 / Daniel P. Sullivan and Foreign Policy In Focus