Must-See Farmworker Video Takes on Food Industry Hypocrisy Must-See Farmworker Video Takes on Food Industry Hypocrisy
This holiday season, join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in calling on Publix to stop paying farmworkers sub-poverty wages.
Dec 6, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Report Shows Impact of Student Voting in Local Elections Report Shows Impact of Student Voting in Local Elections
Student voting blocs were decisive is numerous local measures in Berkeley this year.
Dec 6, 2012 / StudentNation / Daphne Chen
Bob Costas: ‘I Stand by What I Said’ Bob Costas: ‘I Stand by What I Said’
Costas has ignited a firestorm after his comments on gun culture during halftime of Sunday Night Football. He tells us now why he won’t back down.
Dec 6, 2012 / Dave Zirin
Voting Rights Icon Lawrence Guyot’s Death Animates a Fight Over the Future Voting Rights Icon Lawrence Guyot’s Death Animates a Fight Over the Future
Guyot's memorials prompted a Wall Street Journal op-ed writer to insist that the civil rights past is irrelevant to the Voting Rights Act’s future.
Dec 6, 2012 / Brentin Mock and Voting Rights Watch
Documents Undermine Walmart Account on Deadly Bangladesh Fire Documents Undermine Walmart Account on Deadly Bangladesh Fire
One news report reveals Walmart’s role in defeating a proposal for retail corporations to pay for safety improvements; the other shows that multiple Walmart suppliers used th...
Dec 6, 2012 / Josh Eidelson
Daphne Wysham: The World Bank Should Stop Funding Fossil Fuels Daphne Wysham: The World Bank Should Stop Funding Fossil Fuels
A World Bank report says a 4 degree centigrade warmer world would be environmentally catastrophic, so why won’t the Bank divest from fossil fuels?
Dec 6, 2012 / Press Room
Obama in Tehran? Obama in Tehran?
What remains of the initial Obama drive to reach out to Iran with an “engagement that is honed and grounded in mutual respect”?
Dec 6, 2012 / Pepe Escobar
The FCC Must Not Give Rupert Murdoch More Control Over US Media The FCC Must Not Give Rupert Murdoch More Control Over US Media
The man that proposed “Petraeus for President” threatens to dominate airwaves and headlines in major American cities.
Dec 6, 2012 / John Nichols
Pressuring Publix Pressuring Publix
The Fair Food Program is viable, it’s working and, with our help, it could eventually fulfill its enormous promise as an unprecedented collaborative model for farm-labor just...
Dec 6, 2012 / Peter Rothberg
[VIDEO] Protest Organizers Explain the Cooper Union Occupation [VIDEO] Protest Organizers Explain the Cooper Union Occupation
Student activists talk about what they're fighting for and why.
Dec 5, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation