Single Moms Take Note: California Considers Raising the Minimum Wage to $13 Single Moms Take Note: California Considers Raising the Minimum Wage to $13
A new study says the change could save lives and improve health statewide—good news for the 40 percent of poor households led by single women.
May 23, 2014 / Dani McClain
Why Immigrant Detainees Are Turning to Civil Disobedience Why Immigrant Detainees Are Turning to Civil Disobedience
Reform legislation has stalled, and the private-prison industry is making obscene profits from a captive population.
May 23, 2014 / Max Blumenthal
What White Privilege Looks Like When You’re Poor What White Privilege Looks Like When You’re Poor
A new bill proposed by the House Appropriations Committee focuses on tackling rural, not urban, hunger thereby focusing efforts on poor whites rather than people of color.
May 22, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Critical Theory Critical Theory
Other sides of a coin
May 22, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Western Media Coverage of the Ukraine Crisis Is as Distorted as Soviet Propaganda Western Media Coverage of the Ukraine Crisis Is as Distorted as Soviet Propaganda
Why is the Western press so invested in expounding the highly unconvincing narrative of the official line?
May 22, 2014 / Vladimir Golstein
Did Chris Christie Just Sabotage His Chances for 2016? Did Chris Christie Just Sabotage His Chances for 2016?
The Newark Star-Ledger says Christie’s attack on pensions is the final nail in his coffin. (We’ll see.)
May 22, 2014 / Bob and Barbara Dreyfuss
How Mexico’s New President Is Turning His Country Into a Servile US Client How Mexico’s New President Is Turning His Country Into a Servile US Client
Enrique Peña Nieto is using violence and repression to dismantle his country’s progressive legacy.
May 22, 2014 / John M. Ackerman
A De Facto Partition in Ukraine? A De Facto Partition in Ukraine?
Dr. Stephen Cohen joins The John Batchelor Show to discuss the upcoming presidential election in Ukraine.
May 22, 2014 / Stephen F. Cohen
Eyeing the Left Coast: ‘The Nation’ on California, in 1922 and 2003 Eyeing the Left Coast: ‘The Nation’ on California, in 1922 and 2003
‘Wide and luminous’ or ‘grid-locked and addled on speed’?
May 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Is Climate Change a Crime Against Humanity? Is Climate Change a Crime Against Humanity?
Think of climate change as a WMD on a particularly long fuse, already lit and there for any of us to see.
May 22, 2014 / Tom Engelhardt