Working Families Party Builds Progressive Power Working Families Party Builds Progressive Power
The Working Families Party was started in 1998 by a group of labor and community activists whowanted to reinvigorate the fight for economic and social justice in NewYork. The Nat...
Sep 14, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Stop the Sex Scare in Sports Stop the Sex Scare in Sports
The salacious sports media and the puritanical zealots that run international track and field have joined forces to hit a new low.
Sep 14, 2009 / Column / Dave Zirin and Sherry Wolf
Factoring People Into Climate Change Factoring People Into Climate Change
More and more experts now say that climate change and population increase should be viewed together. Local politicians in developing countries often try to heat up the issue.
Sep 14, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
US-Iran Talks Start October 1 US-Iran Talks Start October 1
The hawks, neoconservatives, and Israeli hardliners are squealing, but the US and Iran are set to talk. The talks will begin October 1, among Iran and the P5 + 1, the permanent me...
Sep 14, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
One Year of Bankster Bailouts and Meltdown Madness One Year of Bankster Bailouts and Meltdown Madness
Happy Meltdown Day
OK, not so "happy."
But this is the anniversary of the collapse of the house of cards that was Lehman Brothers.
Sep 14, 2009 / John Nichols
Around The Nation Around The Nation
I mostly avoided coverage of the weekend's 9/12 "teabagger" rally in Washington, DC; we were moving my daughter in to college. But the specter of race--and of conservativ...
Sep 14, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sanders Calls for National Dialogue on Afghanistan Exit Strategy Sanders Calls for National Dialogue on Afghanistan Exit Strategy
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has joined Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold is declaring that the United States needs to start thinking about how to extract its military from Afghan...
Sep 14, 2009 / John Nichols
Resisting Foreclosures Resisting Foreclosures
In Georgia, the ease with which someone can lose a home is staggering. A foreclosure-eviction can occur without judicial review in just35 days, and at 10 a.m. on the first Tu...
Sep 12, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
EPA Turns the Lights on Mountaintop Removal EPA Turns the Lights on Mountaintop Removal
An important announcement suggests that environmental justice may be coming to the Appalachian coalfields.
Sep 11, 2009 / Feature / Jeff Biggers
Iraq: Employee Electrocuted, Family Searches for Truth Iraq: Employee Electrocuted, Family Searches for Truth
Jeremy Scahill appears with the Hermanson family, whose son Adam was killed in Iraq while employed with Triple Canopy, the "new Blackwater."
Sep 11, 2009 / Press Room