Food Stamps for Good Food Food Stamps for Good Food
Should the program target hunger and obesity by promoting consumption of fruits and veggies?
Mar 10, 2011 / Feature / Melanie Mason
Vermont’s Struggle for Single-Payer Healthcare Vermont’s Struggle for Single-Payer Healthcare
Could the Green Mountain state be the first in the country to offer accessible healthcare to all its citizens?
Mar 10, 2011 / Feature / Steve Early
The Spirit of Wisconsin The Spirit of Wisconsin
How Scott Walker’s unionbusting spurred a popular uprising.
Mar 3, 2011 / Feature / John Nichols
In the Age of WikiLeaks, the End of Secrecy? In the Age of WikiLeaks, the End of Secrecy?
For a healthy democracy, transparency is the best medicine.
Mar 3, 2011 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
After Silvio Berlusconi, Nichi Vendola? After Silvio Berlusconi, Nichi Vendola?
Can an openly left-wing, openly gay politician from the South revive an Italy in deep malaise?
Mar 3, 2011 / Feature / Frederika Randall
Time for Outrage! Time for Outrage!
On the American publication of Stéphane Hessel’s Indignez-vous!
Feb 16, 2011 / Feature / Charles Glass
Indignez-vous! Indignez-vous!
In the first English translation of a cri de coeur that has topped bestseller lists for months in France, the 93-year-old hero of the French Resistance urges a new generation to re...
Feb 16, 2011 / Feature / Stephane Hessel
The Betrayal of Public Workers The Betrayal of Public Workers
It’s not only bad politics for states to use budget crises to bust unions—it’s also bad economics.
Feb 16, 2011 / Feature / Robert Pollin and Jeffrey Thompson
Labor’s Last Stand Labor’s Last Stand
As the showdown in Wisconsin demonstrates, progressives must embrace the government workers’ struggle as our own—or else.
Feb 16, 2011 / Feature / Jane McAlevey
How Bloomberg Does Business How Bloomberg Does Business
The mayor's company created a “coalition” to promote its interests in the Comcast-NBC merger, proving itself an agile peddler of influence in Washington.
Feb 10, 2011 / Feature / Aram Roston