The Unappetizing Politics of School Lunches The Unappetizing Politics of School Lunches
How a progressive idea ended up reinforcing inequality.
Jun 6, 2008 / The Nation
Lenders Are Avoiding Giving Loans to Low-Income Students Lenders Are Avoiding Giving Loans to Low-Income Students
While what the loan companies are doing may appear immoral, it is not illegal.
Jun 6, 2008 / The Nation
Brave Nation Young Activist Award Brave Nation Young Activist Award
Who is a local unsung hero that even at a young age, has the bravery to put themselves on the line for a cause?
Jun 6, 2008 / Brave Nation
“Street Organizer” “Street Organizer”
J Street reader PS emails a link to the RNC's new oppo site on Obama called "Meet Barack Obama." (You can Google it. I'm not gonna dignify it with a link.) He notes their descript...
Jun 6, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Taking On Inequality Taking On Inequality
In December, I wroteabout Robert Greenwald's attempt to mobilize outrage against GildedAge-like inequality and the hedge-funders with his War on Greedseries of short films. Now, ...
Jun 6, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Will the Air Force Garrison Cyberspace? Will the Air Force Garrison Cyberspace?
Be depressed. Be very depressed. You thought that cyberspace -- a term conjured up long ago by that neuromancer, sci-fi author William Gibson--was the last frontier of freedom. ...
Jun 6, 2008 / TomDispatch
Quote of the Day Quote of the Day
Ready for some Straight Talk TM ? Asked whether the views Mr. Holtz-Eakin imputed to Mr. McCain were inaccurate, Mr. Bounds did not repudiate the statement. But late Thursday Mr...
Jun 6, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Obama and Clinton Meet in Washington Obama and Clinton Meet in Washington
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton met in private Thursday night in Washington, D.C. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, made the symbolically significant move...
Jun 6, 2008 / John Nichols
Iraqi Officials Oppose US-Iraq Treaty Iraqi Officials Oppose US-Iraq Treaty
Ever since President Bush announced last fall that the United States would seek to negotiate a lasting security agreement with Iraq, the Democrats in Washington have insisted that...
Jun 5, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Remembering RFK: 40 Years Later Remembering RFK: 40 Years Later
A tribute to a true progressive, tragically silenced forty years ago this week.
Jun 5, 2008 / The Glaser Progress Foundation