A Major Defense Contractor Buys Its Way Back Into the Spying Business A Major Defense Contractor Buys Its Way Back Into the Spying Business
What we can learn from contractors about intelligence—and the CIA.
May 11, 2015 / Tim Shorrock
Hillary Clinton Wants to Help Families at the Bottom. So Will She Change Her Mind About Welfare Reform? Hillary Clinton Wants to Help Families at the Bottom. So Will She Change Her Mind About Welfare Reform?
Clinton said as recently as the 2008 campaign that welfare reform was a success, but its track record has proven otherwise for the country’s poorest.
May 11, 2015 / Bryce Covert
How Can You Get an Ethical Manicure? Support Worker Organizing How Can You Get an Ethical Manicure? Support Worker Organizing
Labor advocates are harnessing the power of both workers and consumers to reform nail salons.
May 11, 2015 / Michelle Chen
‘Anyone You See, You Shoot’: Israeli Soldiers Recall the 2014 Gaza War ‘Anyone You See, You Shoot’: Israeli Soldiers Recall the 2014 Gaza War
A new report from the Israeli veterans group Breaking the Silence says the IDF fails to distinguish between civilians and combatants.
May 11, 2015 / Ben Hattem
Israel and Palestine Agree: Keep Politics Out of Soccer Israel and Palestine Agree: Keep Politics Out of Soccer
The sentiment of keeping sports and politics seperate unites the soccer leaders in Israel and Palestine. Tragically, they both mean profoundly different things.
May 11, 2015 / Dave Zirin
May 11, 1981: Bob Marley Dies May 11, 1981: Bob Marley Dies
“Marley seduced Babylon with a beat and a hard-won moral authority that no pop music figure before or since has managed to achieve.”
May 11, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
May 10, 1872: Victoria Woodhull Is the First Woman Nominated for President May 10, 1872: Victoria Woodhull Is the First Woman Nominated for President
Karl Marx himself derided Woodhull as “a banker’s woman, free-lover, and general humbug.”
May 10, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
May 9, 1800: John Brown Is Born May 9, 1800: John Brown Is Born
“While other men were comfortable he, murderer, madman, and saint, did, either with the inspiration of something greater than himself or without it, lay down his life.”...
May 9, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
A Resounding Message From Scotland: Break the ‘Cozy Consensus’ Around ‘Slash-and-Burn Austerity’ A Resounding Message From Scotland: Break the ‘Cozy Consensus’ Around ‘Slash-and-Burn Austerity’
American progressives can learn a lot from the new anti-cuts politics.
May 8, 2015 / John Nichols
Jacob Lawrence’s Art as Journalism Jacob Lawrence’s Art as Journalism
The painter’s migration series was a first draft of history for one of black America’s defining moments.
May 8, 2015 / Syreeta McFadden