Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Need Better Answers on the 1994 Crime Bill Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Need Better Answers on the 1994 Crime Bill
At last night’s debate, Clinton offered a grudging apology for “unintended” outcomes. Sanders wasn’t pressed on his vote for it—and he should be.
Apr 15, 2016 / Joan Walsh
Bernie Sanders Embraces Union Struggles and Welcomes the Contempt of CEOs Bernie Sanders Embraces Union Struggles and Welcomes the Contempt of CEOs
Campaigning in New York, the senator from Vermont rallies with transport workers, pickets with striking phone workers, and tangles with corporate bosses.
Apr 14, 2016 / John Nichols
The Newtown Families Just Won a Big Victory in Their Fight Against Remington Guns The Newtown Families Just Won a Big Victory in Their Fight Against Remington Guns
Will the gunmaker have to pay the price for the Sandy Hook mass shooting?
Apr 14, 2016 / George Zornick
America’s Changing Racial Makeup Won’t Magically Save the Democratic Party America’s Changing Racial Makeup Won’t Magically Save the Democratic Party
Read Steve Phillips’s new book for the smart analysis of electoral strategy, not for his breakdown of race in the 21st century.
Apr 14, 2016 / Julianne Hing
We Need to Build a Voting-Rights Movement We Need to Build a Voting-Rights Movement
The time has come to translate widespread outrage about voter suppression into momentum for an actionable voting-rights agenda.
Apr 14, 2016 / Rep. John Conyers and Barbara Arnwine
Note to Bill Clinton: There Is No Inherent Criminality Note to Bill Clinton: There Is No Inherent Criminality
At the heart of Bill Clinton’s comments about the 1994 crime bill is the belief in a natural and permanent class of criminals.
Apr 14, 2016 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein Says Climate Justice Requires Bernie’s Boldness Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein Says Climate Justice Requires Bernie’s Boldness
Plus Andrew Bacevich on our wars in the Middle East, and Amy Goodman on 20 years of Democracy Now!
Apr 14, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Can Restorative Justice Change the Way Schools Handle Sexual Assault? Can Restorative Justice Change the Way Schools Handle Sexual Assault?
Students and schools are exploring its promise and challenges.
Apr 14, 2016 / StudentNation / Alexandra Brodsky
Mr. Sanders Goes to the Vatican Mr. Sanders Goes to the Vatican
Bernie may be Jewish, but he seems to have found an echo of his politics in the Catholic Church’s call for social justice—especially under Pope Francis.
Apr 14, 2016 / Edouard Tétreau
A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World
But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives.
Apr 14, 2016 / Feature / James Gustave Speth and J. Phillip Thompson III