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What Sexual Harassment?

What Sexual Harassment? What Sexual Harassment?

Surely there's no harm in giving someone a compliment?

Nov 17, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow

Tunisia’s Unfinished Revolution

Tunisia’s Unfinished Revolution Tunisia’s Unfinished Revolution

Religious tensions, remnants of the police state and a broken-down neoliberal economic model imperil Tunisia’s otherwise impressive democratic transition.

Nov 17, 2014 / Jahd Khalil and Foreign Policy In Focus

What to Do About Record Low Voter Turnout? Call a Holiday!

What to Do About Record Low Voter Turnout? Call a Holiday! What to Do About Record Low Voter Turnout? Call a Holiday!

To address dismal election participation, Bernie Sanders proposes giving citizens time off for Democracy Day.

Nov 17, 2014 / John Nichols

A Kentucky Congressman Goes to Bat for His Wife’s Company on Capitol Hill

A Kentucky Congressman Goes to Bat for His Wife’s Company on Capitol Hill A Kentucky Congressman Goes to Bat for His Wife’s Company on Capitol Hill

Has Republican Ed Whitfield unethically supported the interests of his wife’s firm?

Nov 17, 2014 / Lee Fang

Post-Midterm Political Coverage of GOP Extremism Fits the Definition of Media Absurdity

Post-Midterm Political Coverage of GOP Extremism Fits the Definition of Media Absurdity Post-Midterm Political Coverage of GOP Extremism Fits the Definition of Media Absurdity

Eric on this week in concerts and new music releases and Reed on how the mainstream press is always trying to tell the same (false) story about the Republican Party.

Nov 17, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson

This Will Make You Think Twice About Getting That Manicure

This Will Make You Think Twice About Getting That Manicure This Will Make You Think Twice About Getting That Manicure

Could the chemicals in beauty products be causing long-term health problems for salon workers?

Nov 17, 2014 / Michelle Chen

Two Detroits, Separate and Unequal

Two Detroits, Separate and Unequal Two Detroits, Separate and Unequal

The Detroit of wealthy enclaves and private guards looks nothing like the other Detroit, which is becoming more uninhabitable every day.

Nov 17, 2014 / Laura Gottesdiener

This Mass Grave Isn’t the Mass Grave You Have Been Looking For

This Mass Grave Isn’t the Mass Grave You Have Been Looking For This Mass Grave Isn’t the Mass Grave You Have Been Looking For

Mass graves are being found everywhere in Mexico, but none of them contain the missing forty-three student-activists. 

Nov 17, 2014 / Greg Grandin

New NBA Union Chief Michele Roberts Slams the League’s Old Labor Practices

New NBA Union Chief Michele Roberts Slams the League’s Old Labor Practices New NBA Union Chief Michele Roberts Slams the League’s Old Labor Practices

You don't become the first woman elected to head a men’s sports union by playing nice.

Nov 17, 2014 / Dave Zirin

How the North Pole Could Become the World’s Next Battlefield

How the North Pole Could Become the World’s Next Battlefield How the North Pole Could Become the World’s Next Battlefield

As the climate warms and the ice melts, the Arctic could become the next great theater of global cooperation—or a battlefield.

Nov 14, 2014 / Conn Hallinan and Foreign Policy In Focus

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