Ryan Devereaux: Just How Important Is New York’s Stop-and-Frisk Trial? Ryan Devereaux: Just How Important Is New York’s Stop-and-Frisk Trial?
For men of color in New York, getting stopped-and-frisked is a daily reality. Will the courts do anything to change it?
Apr 5, 2013 / Press Room
Former Walmart District Manager Accuses Company of Widespread Inventory Manipulation Former Walmart District Manager Accuses Company of Widespread Inventory Manipulation
The charges form the crux of a federal discrimination lawsuit that goes to trial this month.
Apr 5, 2013 / Spencer Woodman
Whose Side Is ‘The Walking Dead’ On? Whose Side Is ‘The Walking Dead’ On?
Cable TV’s top hit is used to justify every political point of view—right or left, pro-NRA or pro-gun control, even pro-sequester or pro-stimulus.
Apr 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Leslie Savan
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (4/5/2013) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (4/5/2013)
This week's press yields a crude mixture of Arabic, Hebrew, Marxism, French colonialism, restorative justice and techno-disdain.
Apr 5, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Iran Talks, Day One: As Expected, No Deal Yet Iran Talks, Day One: As Expected, No Deal Yet
But Obama should just keep talking—until he has a chance to make a deal with a new president not named Ahmadinejad.
Apr 5, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
A New Chicago Freedom Ride A New Chicago Freedom Ride
Past shuttered schools and glass-strewn vacant lots, the Chicago Teachers Union documents the likely toll of Rahm Emanuel's latest disastrous education plan.
Apr 5, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
7 Ways North Carolina Republicans are Trying to Make it Harder to Vote 7 Ways North Carolina Republicans are Trying to Make it Harder to Vote
Seventy-five new voting restrictions have been introduced in 30 states in 2013. North Carolina is leading the way.
Apr 5, 2013 / Ari Berman
On Roger Ebert, 1942-2013 On Roger Ebert, 1942-2013
Ebert was a great popularizer of discussion about the arts, and we'd do well not to forget that.
Apr 5, 2013 / Michelle Dean
The ‘Undo-Everything’ Congress: What the Press Doesn’t See The ‘Undo-Everything’ Congress: What the Press Doesn’t See
The hard-right wing exerts an oversized influence on our gridlocked Congress, thanks in part to a Beltway media enamored of them.
Apr 5, 2013 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
This Week in Poverty: Sequestration, Housing, Homelessness This Week in Poverty: Sequestration, Housing, Homelessness
With sequestration, a bleak housing and homelessness situation is about to get a lot worse.
Apr 5, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann