Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 10/4/13 Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 10/4/13
This week: the beneficiaries of the prison industrial complex, an unjustified detention at the border, and an inside look at the US intern economy.
Oct 4, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Congressional Liberals Mobilize to Keep Social Insurance Out of Shutdown Talks Congressional Liberals Mobilize to Keep Social Insurance Out of Shutdown Talks
Progressive members of Congress are pledging to oppose
Oct 3, 2013 / George Zornick
Will the Right Paint NYC’s Next First Lady as an ‘Angry Black Woman’? Will the Right Paint NYC’s Next First Lady as an ‘Angry Black Woman’?
After tagging Bill de Blasio a “commie,” how will they twist the image of Chirlane McCray?
Oct 3, 2013 / Leslie Savan
Shutdown Continues, but Obamacare Is Up and (Mostly) Running Shutdown Continues, but Obamacare Is Up and (Mostly) Running
The future of the GOP, not the Affordable Care Act, is what's at stake now in Congress.
Oct 2, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter
Canadians Remain Imprisoned in Egypt Without Charge Canadians Remain Imprisoned in Egypt Without Charge
Hundreds of witnesses to massacre by Egyptian security forces face extended detention.
Oct 2, 2013 / Press Room
Noted Noted
How corporations seek to make big bucks off mass incarceration.
Oct 2, 2013 / Liliana Segura
Marshall Berman: All That Is Solid Melts… Marshall Berman: All That Is Solid Melts…
Liberals honor a great public intellectual—while the editor of Commentary compares him to a Nazi.
Oct 2, 2013 / Column / Eric Alterman
Americans Hate Obamacare, Love Affordable Care Act Americans Hate Obamacare, Love Affordable Care Act
Jimmy Kimmel shows they don’t get that O’care=ACA.
Oct 2, 2013 / Leslie Savan
Hate Crime Laws Don’t Prevent Violence Against LGBT People Hate Crime Laws Don’t Prevent Violence Against LGBT People
So why do many LGBT people, and others, feel so deeply about the need to have them?
Oct 2, 2013 / Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, and Michael Amico
Joining Forces With NARAL Pro-Choice America Joining Forces With NARAL Pro-Choice America
I’m joining NARAL Pro-Choice America as a member of their board of directors, and I’m excited to work with their new initiatives to include young people.
Oct 2, 2013 / Jessica Valenti