Wisconsin Teachers, Students Face Uncertain Future Wisconsin Teachers, Students Face Uncertain Future
Proposed budget cuts and threats to collective bargaining are already damaging public education in Wisconsin.
Mar 2, 2011 / Meredith Clark
Iran Intensifies Crackdown Against Greens Iran Intensifies Crackdown Against Greens
Mousavi, Karroubi reportedly taken to army prison, amid demands that they be executed.
Mar 2, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
Thom Hartmann: Corporations Are Fueling Our Peak Oil Crisis Thom Hartmann: Corporations Are Fueling Our Peak Oil Crisis
We have to to fight back against the corporate capture of government because the companies profiting off our addiction to oil are doing everything in their power to keep us on our...
Mar 2, 2011 / The Nation and On The Earth Productions
Boeing Boondoggle: Pork Can Fly Boeing Boondoggle: Pork Can Fly
“The gift that keeps on giving” should have been the headline on the Pentagon’s decision to award the Boeing Co. a $35 billion defense contract last week.
Mar 2, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Arab Uprisings and American Intervention Arab Uprisings and American Intervention
The young people protesting in Arab capitals right now want a meaningful break with the status quo and, in many ways, that means a break from American support.
Mar 2, 2011 / Laila Lalami
A Vote to Cut Grants to Low-Income Students Provokes a National Day of Action A Vote to Cut Grants to Low-Income Students Provokes a National Day of Action
The United States Student Association is organizing nationwide resistence to a House vote to cut the Pell Grant and TRIO programs.
Mar 2, 2011 / StudentNation / Sara Jerving
Why a Wisconsin Sheriff Refuses to Serve as Governor Walker’s ‘Palace Guard’ Why a Wisconsin Sheriff Refuses to Serve as Governor Walker’s ‘Palace Guard’
Top lawman refuses to help Governor Walker deny access to the state Capitol, as protests against assaults on labor rights continue.
Mar 2, 2011 / John Nichols
Quote of the Day: On the Sanity of Defense Secretaries, by Robert Gates Quote of the Day: On the Sanity of Defense Secretaries, by Robert Gates
Gates speaks to an audience at West Point.
Mar 2, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
Remembering Suze Rotolo Remembering Suze Rotolo
Best known for a photograph of her and Bob Dylan that became the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Rotolo devoted her life to the progressive causes which had engaged her since ...
Mar 1, 2011 / Peter Rothberg
Johann Hari: US Uncut Is Fed Up With Tax Evaders Johann Hari: US Uncut Is Fed Up With Tax Evaders
Johann Hari joins US Uncut's Ryan Clayton to talk about the wave anti-austerity activism in Europe that is now spreading to the US.
Mar 1, 2011 / Press Room