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Katrina vanden Heuvel: End the NRA’s Stranglehold on Gun Legislation

Katrina vanden Heuvel: End the NRA’s Stranglehold on Gun Legislation Katrina vanden Heuvel: End the NRA’s Stranglehold on Gun Legislation

Enough is enough: we must wrest control of public safety policy from gun manufacturers. 

Jan 4, 2013 / Press Room

John Nichols: How the 113th Congress Can Bring Progress Back to Capitol Hill John Nichols: How the 113th Congress Can Bring Progress Back to Capitol Hill

The 113th Congress is the most diverse in history, but that doesn't necessarily translate to progress.

Jan 4, 2013 / Press Room

America’s Rape Problem: We Refuse to Admit That There Is One

America’s Rape Problem: We Refuse to Admit That There Is One America’s Rape Problem: We Refuse to Admit That There Is One

It's time to acknowledge that the rape epidemic in the US is not just about the crimes themselves, but our own cultural and political willful ignorance.

Jan 4, 2013 / Jessica Valenti

Comforting the Comfortable, Afflicting the Afflicted Comforting the Comfortable, Afflicting the Afflicted

A small-bore, context-free, artificially balanced press corps only serves the interests of the powerful.

Jan 4, 2013 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson

Winners and Losers in Washington’s Debt Deal

Winners and Losers in Washington’s Debt Deal Winners and Losers in Washington’s Debt Deal

What really happened on Capitol Hill this week, and a look ahead to the budget battles on the horizon.

Jan 4, 2013 / The Nation

This Week in Poverty: Responses to the ‘Cliff’ Deal

This Week in Poverty: Responses to the ‘Cliff’ Deal This Week in Poverty: Responses to the ‘Cliff’ Deal

The antipoverty community sounds off on the “fiscal cliff” deal. How did low-income Americans fare in Congress’s latest compromise?

Jan 4, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann

Labor Groups Pan Walmart Plan to Bring Oversight Approach Used in Bangladesh to the US

Labor Groups Pan Walmart Plan to Bring Oversight Approach Used in Bangladesh to the US Labor Groups Pan Walmart Plan to Bring Oversight Approach Used in Bangladesh to the US

A labor official says the kind of auditing Walmart wants to bring to its US warehouses “led directly to the deaths of 112 people in Bangladesh.”

Jan 4, 2013 / Josh Eidelson

Making Sense of Google Street Views

Making Sense of Google Street Views Making Sense of Google Street Views

Doug Rickard’s works serve an important purpose apart from commenting on inequality: they test a new understanding of what John Berger calls a “total view of reality&rd...

Jan 3, 2013 / StudentNation / Alexia Nader

South Africa’s Barriers to Abortion

South Africa’s Barriers to Abortion South Africa’s Barriers to Abortion

Seventeen years ago, as apartheid came to an end in South Africa and a democratically elected government took power, the country became an abortion rights pioneer. In 1996, the pos…

Jan 3, 2013 / Photo Essay / Jake Naughton, Jina Moore, and Estelle Ellis

The Untold History of the US: Part Three The Untold History of the US: Part Three

The third episode of the Showtime explores the birth of the American Empire by focusing on Harry Truman's presidency, his decision to inaugurate the nuclear age and unsung hero...

Jan 3, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

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