Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/15/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/15/13)
This week, articles critique the spotty broadband coverage in the United States, our complacent foreign policy in the Middle East, the idealistic education proposals in Barack Obam...
Feb 15, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Sanders, Boxer Outline ‘Gold Standard’ Climate Bill Sanders, Boxer Outline ‘Gold Standard’ Climate Bill
A price on carbon would fund investments in clean energy under the new plan.
Feb 14, 2013 / George Zornick
Hamas? What Hamas? Hamas? What Hamas?
Liberals concerned with Israel often miss the inconvenient fact of the radical Palestinian organization's human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip. Reed Richardson also writes abo...
Feb 14, 2013 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
White People Have to Give Up Racism White People Have to Give Up Racism
It's the only real solution to deaths like those of Trayvon Martin and Rodgrio Diaz.
Feb 14, 2013 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: A Coming Preschool Backlash? Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: A Coming Preschool Backlash?
In his State of the Union, Obama naively proposed universal preschool as a conservative idea. Conservatives will not agree.
Feb 14, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
What Labor Can Learn From the Obama Campaign What Labor Can Learn From the Obama Campaign
It’s time to harness data.
Feb 14, 2013 / Feature / Suresh Naidu and Dorian T. Warren
Build a Democracy Movement Build a Democracy Movement
“Money Out, Voting In” should become labor’s mantra.
Feb 13, 2013 / Feature / Larry Cohen
Hillary Clinton, State Feminist? Hillary Clinton, State Feminist?
She vowed to make women’s rights a cornerstone of US foreign policy. How did she do?
Feb 13, 2013 / Feature / Tara McKelvey
Obama Takes a Stand Against Austerity Obama Takes a Stand Against Austerity
He may not have achieved the full FDR, but the president’s State of the Union speech, like his Inaugural, displayed a welcome progressive spirit.
Feb 13, 2013 / The Editors
Noted Noted
John Nichols on the US Postal Service, Elana Leopold on rebel teachers in Seattle, Lucy McKeon on Ramarley Graham’s legacy, and the editors on Charlottesville’s anti-dr...
Feb 13, 2013 / Various Contributors