Plummeting Oil Prices Could Bring Radical Change to Russia. What Comes Next? Plummeting Oil Prices Could Bring Radical Change to Russia. What Comes Next?
The weakness of the petrostate economy could jolt Russia’s political elites—or its ordinary citizens—to take action.
Jan 5, 2015 / David M. Kotz
Is Crowdsourcing Bad for Workers? Is Crowdsourcing Bad for Workers?
“Cloud labor” sites like Crowdflower may be the face of the future—but their wages are stuck in a sweatshop past.
Jan 5, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Antonin Scalia: Torture’s Not Torture Unless He Says It Is Antonin Scalia: Torture’s Not Torture Unless He Says It Is
The Supreme Court justice might need to brush up on his Eighth Amendment.
Jan 5, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Stuart Scott Was My Strength Stuart Scott Was My Strength
When I was at my lowest, Stuart Scott’s words reframed cancer for me in an indelible manner.
Jan 5, 2015 / Dave Zirin
January 5, 1968: the Prague Spring Begins January 5, 1968: the Prague Spring Begins
What would later become known as the Prague Spring began with the ascension, on this day in 1968, of the reformist Alexander Dubček to the post of first secretary of the Communist ...
Jan 5, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
Why This Socialist Feminist Is For Hillary Why This Socialist Feminist Is For Hillary
The stalled revolution for gender equity won’t be won simply by installing a woman in the White House—but it can’t hurt.
Jan 5, 2015 / Feature / Suzanna Danuta Walters
Mario Cuomo’s Patchwork Quilt Mario Cuomo’s Patchwork Quilt
In his electrifying 1984 convention speech, Cuomo forged a new liberal vision drawn from his own ethnic experience.
Jan 2, 2015 / Eric Alterman
A Migrant Worker’s Death Sheds Light on China’s Labor Underground A Migrant Worker’s Death Sheds Light on China’s Labor Underground
Zhou Xiuyun, a 47-year-old mother from Henan Province, was killed by police while demanding back wages.
Jan 2, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Mario Cuomo Was So Very Right—Especially on the Death Penalty Mario Cuomo Was So Very Right—Especially on the Death Penalty
The late New York governor made it his mission to speak up for a moral politics and governance.
Jan 2, 2015 / John Nichols
January 2, 1920: Anti-Radical Raids Across the Country, the First Red Scare January 2, 1920: Anti-Radical Raids Across the Country, the First Red Scare
After World War I, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer led a campaign to arrest, imprison and deport thousands of supposedly subversive political radicals. Almost 1,000 people were...
Jan 2, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac