Comments of the Week: January 2, 2012 Comments of the Week: January 2, 2012
Each week we post a run-down of the best of our reader comments with the hopes of highlighting some of your most valuable insights and encouraging more ...
Jan 6, 2012 / Sarah Arnold
Job Numbers Are Up, but Veterans Are Left Behind Job Numbers Are Up, but Veterans Are Left Behind
While the private sector is adding jobs, few of them are going to the people that fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jan 6, 2012 / George Zornick
NFL Players Association Puts Out Statement Against Indiana’s ‘Right-to-Work’ Agenda NFL Players Association Puts Out Statement Against Indiana’s ‘Right-to-Work’ Agenda
The Super Bowl is coming to Indianapolis in a month, and the NFLPA is not being silent about the Right to Work agenda in the statehouse,
Jan 6, 2012 / Dave Zirin
Iowa and the High Cost of Low Living Iowa and the High Cost of Low Living
Eric on winter concerts and Reed on why the Iowa caucuses are bad for journalism.
Jan 6, 2012 / Eric Alterman
Remembering Judge Robert Carter Remembering Judge Robert Carter
Carter helped to change America, and helped to change me, along with the many black and white lawyers who worked with him and whom he taught that fighting for equal rights entail...
Jan 6, 2012 / Lewis M. Steel
Huntsman: The Better Foreign Policy Alternative to Paul Huntsman: The Better Foreign Policy Alternative to Paul
Many on the left have fallen for Ron Paul’s non-interventionism. But there’s a Republican with a more responsible approach: Jon Huntsman.
Jan 6, 2012 / Ben Adler
Melissa Harris-Perry: President Obama’s Bold Recess Appointment Melissa Harris-Perry: President Obama’s Bold Recess Appointment
President Obama gets bold in the election year.
Jan 6, 2012 / Press Room
No Ideals or Ideas From Romney, Just a ‘Well-Designed Corporate Strategy’ No Ideals or Ideas From Romney, Just a ‘Well-Designed Corporate Strategy’
The paper that knows Romney best, the Boston Globe, dismisses him as a blank slate who is “merely checking boxes on the GOP playlist.”
Jan 6, 2012 / John Nichols
Spencer Woodman: Can Walmart Be Unionized? Spencer Woodman: Can Walmart Be Unionized?
Faced with the retail giant's continued suppression and intimidation, Walmart workers have found untraditional ways to unionize.
Jan 5, 2012 / The Nation
Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers: What Went Wrong? Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers: What Went Wrong?
The UFW had two souls—the strike, and the boycott.
Jan 5, 2012 / Jon Wiener