Why Are Employers Checking Job Applicants’ Credit Histories? Why Are Employers Checking Job Applicants’ Credit Histories?
There’s no evidence that credit reports reveal an applicant’s competence but plenty of evidence that shows they invade privacy and institutionalize discrimination.
Sep 12, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen
The Senate Tried to Overturn ‘Citizens United’ Today. Guess What Stopped Them? The Senate Tried to Overturn ‘Citizens United’ Today. Guess What Stopped Them?
But this fight is far from over.
Sep 11, 2014 / Blog / John Nichols
Is the War on ISIS Illegal? Is the War on ISIS Illegal?
The Obama administration’s legal justification for expanding military action in Iraq and Syria is hypocritical and based on tenuous logic.
Sep 11, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
Are Campaigns to Raise the Minimum Wage Really ‘Recruitment Ground for Fascism’? Are Campaigns to Raise the Minimum Wage Really ‘Recruitment Ground for Fascism’?
One Koch brothers strategist thinks so.
Sep 11, 2014 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Obama’s Plan for Military Action Requires Congressional Checks and Balances Obama’s Plan for Military Action Requires Congressional Checks and Balances
Congress has a constitutional duty to debate and vote on Obama’s plan to expand the US role in Iraq and Syria.
Sep 11, 2014 / Blog / John Nichols
In Covering Obama’s ISIS Speech, Can the Media Move Beyond ‘Optics’? In Covering Obama’s ISIS Speech, Can the Media Move Beyond ‘Optics’?
Does it matter what necktie you wear when you declare war?
Sep 10, 2014 / Blog / Leslie Savan
‘Europe Is Splintering Over the Ukrainian Crisis’ ‘Europe Is Splintering Over the Ukrainian Crisis’
The conflict in Ukraine has divided the EU into two factions with opposite views on Russia.
Sep 10, 2014 / Nation in the News / Stephen F. Cohen
Hundreds of Voters Are Disenfranchised by North Carolina’s New Voting Restrictions Hundreds of Voters Are Disenfranchised by North Carolina’s New Voting Restrictions
More than 450 voters did not have their ballots counted in the state’s May primary as a result of the country’s harshest voting law.
Sep 10, 2014 / Blog / Ari Berman
How Zephyr Teachout Taught Democrats a Lesson in Democracy How Zephyr Teachout Taught Democrats a Lesson in Democracy
Andrew Cuomo’s challenger for Governor of New York State didn’t beat him in the primary, but she did prove that no candidate is invincible.
Sep 10, 2014 / Sarah Jaffe
Hope, Voting and Creating the World You Want to Live In Hope, Voting and Creating the World You Want to Live In
Getting to the polls is just the first step.
Sep 10, 2014 / Paul Rogat Loeb