What’s Really Behind Obama’s Praise of Ray Kelly? What’s Really Behind Obama’s Praise of Ray Kelly?
Obama sounds the notes of racial justice at key moments, while asserting unprecedented power to implement policies that are destructive, discriminatory—and embodied by the NY...
Aug 5, 2013 / Amna Akbar and Jeanne Theoharis
How DC Home Rule Will Help Low-Income Women Seeking Abortions How DC Home Rule Will Help Low-Income Women Seeking Abortions
DC autonomy is now more likely than ever, and with it will come the lifting of a ban on Medicaid coverage of abortion for local women.
Aug 5, 2013 / Samantha Lachman
Welcome to Post-Constitution America Welcome to Post-Constitution America
What if your country begins to change and no one notices?
Aug 5, 2013 / Peter Van Buren
Edward Snowden E-Mailed Me! He Wants My Help Getting Millions Out of Hong Kong Edward Snowden E-Mailed Me! He Wants My Help Getting Millions Out of Hong Kong
His writing needs improvement.
Aug 4, 2013 / Blog / Jon Wiener
Did Scott Walker Really Go and Compare Himself to Franklin Roosevelt? Did Scott Walker Really Go and Compare Himself to Franklin Roosevelt?
An anti-labor governor tries to claim the mantle of the president who championed collective bargaining. Fail!
Aug 3, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
From Tallahassee to Mexico City, the Youth Uprising Continues From Tallahassee to Mexico City, the Youth Uprising Continues
From the Dream 9, to the Dream Defenders, to San Francisco, to Chicago, young people mass for social justice.
Aug 2, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (8/2/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (8/2/13)
This week: struggles to open abortion clinics in Kansas, critiques of Obama's rhetoric on the middle class, "Dreamers" trying to return to the country in which ...
Aug 2, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
#AskJessica: Why Don’t Feminists Care More About Anthony Weiner? #AskJessica: Why Don’t Feminists Care More About Anthony Weiner?
Because we have more important things to worry about.
Aug 2, 2013 / Blog / Jessica Valenti
This Week in Poverty: Chairman Ryan and the Real World This Week in Poverty: Chairman Ryan and the Real World
At his hearing on the War on Poverty, Paul Ryan demanded evidence about what works to fight poverty—and then promptly ignored it.
Aug 2, 2013 / Blog / Greg Kaufmann
Democratic Voters Say They Want a Revolution on Climate Policy Democratic Voters Say They Want a Revolution on Climate Policy
Do Democrats’ words matter, even if their climate policies are gutless? It depends on what the public says next.
Aug 1, 2013 / Blog / Madeline Ostrander