The Fight to Save San Francisco’s Public College The Fight to Save San Francisco’s Public College
Why is an accrediting commission targeting a well-performing college serving underprivileged communities?
May 15, 2014 / StudentNation / Justine Drennan and StudentNation
The Battle of 42nd Street The Battle of 42nd Street
The demise of the New York Public Library’s Central Library Plan is the end of a Bloomberg-era castle in the sky.
May 14, 2014 / Scott Sherman
After Jackson Loses Its Radical Mayor, a Movement Spreads in the South After Jackson Loses Its Radical Mayor, a Movement Spreads in the South
Still mourning Chokwe Lumumba, progressives gather to push his vision for worker-owned co-ops.
May 14, 2014 / Laura Flanders
The Next Four Months Will Decide the Future of the Internet The Next Four Months Will Decide the Future of the Internet
The FCC has opened a debate on Net Neutrality. Activists must raise an outcry to assure it does not lead to a pay-to-play Internet.
May 14, 2014 / John Nichols
New GOP Icon? New GOP Icon?
The most Republican-leaning company in the country, based on political donations, [is] the company that makes Wonder Bread. —The New York Times So, given what the demographics show, That elephant will simply have to go. To represent the GOP precisely A slice of white bread ought to do quite nicely.
May 14, 2014 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Entertainment Companies Get $1.5 Billion in Tax Breaks Each Year—Yet They’re Offshoring Musicians’ Jobs Entertainment Companies Get $1.5 Billion in Tax Breaks Each Year—Yet They’re Offshoring Musicians’ Jobs
Currently, 39 states and Puerto Rico subsidize the entertainment business to the tune of about $1.5 billion. Yet many of these agreements lack concrete mandates to direct how compa...
May 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Chen
Ras Baraka’s Victory in Newark Could Revitalize New Jersey Progressives Ras Baraka’s Victory in Newark Could Revitalize New Jersey Progressives
Christie, Booker and Democratic party bosses, along with the charter school movement, suffer a huge defeat.
May 14, 2014 / Bob and Barbara Dreyfuss
What Was Democracy? What Was Democracy?
Democracy was once a comforting fiction. Has it become an uninhabitable one?
May 13, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney and Yascha Mounk
Bernie Sanders Could Be the 2016 Democratic Candidate We’ve All Been Waiting For Bernie Sanders Could Be the 2016 Democratic Candidate We’ve All Been Waiting For
The Vermont senator has given progressives leverage and a platform, a potent combination.
May 13, 2014 / Tom Hayden
This Is Exactly How Karl Rove Works This Is Exactly How Karl Rove Works
There's nothing new in Rove's latest ugly broadside on Hillary Clinton.
May 13, 2014 / George Zornick