Dispatches From the US Student Movement: March 1 Dispatches From the US Student Movement: March 1
This week, students across the country rail against program cuts, tuition hikes and racist university policies. What’s next for reproductive justice in Alabama? Could Congres...
Mar 1, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (3/1/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (3/1/13)
Forecasts look gloomy from Chicago to Greece as politicians play on economic fears, but there are patches of sunlight in places like Chile, where factions are joining to protest ne...
Mar 1, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Battling Feminist Burnout Battling Feminist Burnout
Here’s how to stay up in a downer world.
Mar 1, 2013 / Jessica Valenti
The CIA Is Training Syria’s Rebels: Uh-Oh, Says a Top Iraqi Leader The CIA Is Training Syria’s Rebels: Uh-Oh, Says a Top Iraqi Leader
The covert program surfaced in a piece about John Kerry’s announcement of increased aid to the fighters.
Mar 1, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
This Week in Poverty: Gangnam-Style Counting With Senator Jeff Sessions This Week in Poverty: Gangnam-Style Counting With Senator Jeff Sessions
Republican Senator Jeff Sessions uses some very creative math to prove that people in poverty have incomes that are similar to the middle class.
Mar 1, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
Why Does Congress’s Only Cherokee Member Keep Voting Against VAWA? Why Does Congress’s Only Cherokee Member Keep Voting Against VAWA?
Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) voted against both versions of VAWA reauthorization. If only he would explain why.
Mar 1, 2013 / Aura Bogado
Gotta Sequester? Or Was Cheney Right That ‘Deficits Don’t Matter’? Gotta Sequester? Or Was Cheney Right That ‘Deficits Don’t Matter’?
There is a lot of hypocrisy in the sudden Republican obsession with deficits and debt.
Mar 1, 2013 / John Nichols
Honoring Rosa Parks Requires More Than a Statue Honoring Rosa Parks Requires More Than a Statue
The memorial to Parks turned her into a meek and redemptive figure—instead of the radical freedom fighter she was until the end of her life.
Feb 28, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Marwa Amer and Jeanne Theoharis
The Fight Over Seth MacFarlane Is a Study in Self-Confidence The Fight Over Seth MacFarlane Is a Study in Self-Confidence
Too often, the defenders of sexism and racism, at the Oscars or in this world, manage to exhaust others right out of the conversation.
Feb 28, 2013 / Michelle Dean
A Fierce Green Planet A Fierce Green Planet
The argument that we’re living in a new golden age of documentaries will be significantly furthered tomorrow with the release of A Fierce Green Fire, the first major cinemati...
Feb 28, 2013 / Peter Rothberg