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Katrina vanden Heuvel on the battle for paid sick days, Elana Leopold on the fight against Pam Geller's Islamaphobic ads, Sarah Woolf on the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto u...

Apr 3, 2013 / Various Contributors

The Lack of Paid Sick Leave Is Unhealthy for America

The Lack of Paid Sick Leave Is Unhealthy for America The Lack of Paid Sick Leave Is Unhealthy for America

Being able to stay home sick keeps workers and children healthy and businesses profitable.

Apr 3, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The GOP’s Drug-Testing Dragnet

The GOP’s Drug-Testing Dragnet The GOP’s Drug-Testing Dragnet

How Republicans and industry profiteers are targeting high school students, welfare applicants and the unemployed.

Apr 3, 2013 / Feature / Isabel Macdonald

Alaska’s Lesson for the Left Alaska’s Lesson for the Left

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins pulled off a huge upset in a state legislative race by showing that he cared.

Apr 3, 2013 / Feature / Russell Mokhiber

The Minutemen and the Mainstream Media

The Minutemen and the Mainstream Media The Minutemen and the Mainstream Media

A new book argues that the media failed to grasp the frightening extremism of the anti-immigrant border patrols of a few years ago—and wraps it in a thrilling true-crime tale...

Apr 3, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein

Educator Who Challenged Scott Walker’s Vouchers Agenda Wins 61-39 in Wisconsin

Educator Who Challenged Scott Walker’s Vouchers Agenda Wins 61-39 in Wisconsin Educator Who Challenged Scott Walker’s Vouchers Agenda Wins 61-39 in Wisconsin

The Superintendent of Public Instruction, who campaigned as an advocate for public education, was reelected with the message, "We can and must meet our constitutional obligati...

Apr 3, 2013 / John Nichols

Schumer Wants to Have His Cake and Eat It, Too

Schumer Wants to Have His Cake and Eat It, Too Schumer Wants to Have His Cake and Eat It, Too

The leading Democrat working to unveil a comprehensive immigration reform bill is getting his campaign money from the private detention industry.

Apr 3, 2013 / Aura Bogado

How Little We Know About Heavy Tar Sands Oil

How Little We Know About Heavy Tar Sands Oil How Little We Know About Heavy Tar Sands Oil

The government is flying blind when to comes to transporting, and cleaning up, heavy tar sands oil. 

Apr 2, 2013 / George Zornick

The Doomsday Prepper Caucus

The Doomsday Prepper Caucus The Doomsday Prepper Caucus

Prophecies of government tyranny, financial meltdown and violent anarchy featured on Doomsday Preppers are being absorbed into contemporary conservatism.

Apr 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Reed Richardson

How Operation Enduring Freedom Mutated Into Operation Enduring Corruption

How Operation Enduring Freedom Mutated Into Operation Enduring Corruption How Operation Enduring Freedom Mutated Into Operation Enduring Corruption

In Western hands, Afghanistan didn't transition to a "free market" system—but a particularly venal form of crony capitalism.

Apr 2, 2013 / Dilip Hiro

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