On 50th Anniversary of Ralph Nader’s ‘Unsafe at Any Speed,’ Safety Group Reports Auto Safety Regulation Has Saved 3.5 Million Lives On 50th Anniversary of Ralph Nader’s ‘Unsafe at Any Speed,’ Safety Group Reports Auto Safety Regulation Has Saved 3.5 Million Lives
The crusading consumer advocate’s work launched Congressional hearings and seminal safety protections.
Dec 1, 2015 / Press Room
How to Understand White Male Terrorism How to Understand White Male Terrorism
We’ve been here before, and we know that violent backlash is at its fiercest when movements for racial and gender justice are winning.
Nov 30, 2015 / Max Berger
‘The Media Needs to Call a Lie a Lie’ ‘The Media Needs to Call a Lie a Lie’
On CNN’s Reliable Sources, Katrina vanden Heuvel holds the press accountable for letting Trump’s deceptions slide.
Nov 30, 2015 / Press Room and Katrina vanden Heuvel
How the Phony Planned Parenthood Videos Degraded the Abortion Debate How the Phony Planned Parenthood Videos Degraded the Abortion Debate
Abortion foes know Americans want choice to stay legal, so they’ve shifted their strategy to reduce access and demonize providers.
Nov 30, 2015 / Joan Walsh
How ‘Creed’ Saves Rocky From Himself How ‘Creed’ Saves Rocky From Himself
Ryan Coogler revives an otherwise moribund franchise by showing the importance of black voices behind and in front of the camera.
Nov 30, 2015 / Dave Zirin
CUNY Faculty Authorizes a Strike Vote CUNY Faculty Authorizes a Strike Vote
Half a decade after working without a contract or a pay raise, City University of New York faculty and staff have had enough.
Nov 30, 2015 / StudentNation / Carlos Ballesteros
November 29, 1980: Dorothy Day Dies November 29, 1980: Dorothy Day Dies
“All the gamblers in a Greenwich Village bar admired her because she could drink any one of them under the table.”
Nov 29, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
The Colorado Shooting Comes Amid an ‘Alarming’ Escalation of Anti-Abortion Violence The Colorado Shooting Comes Amid an ‘Alarming’ Escalation of Anti-Abortion Violence
Threats and attacks on clinics and abortion providers have risen dramatically since an undercover video sting aimed at Planned Parenthood.
Nov 28, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
The Deafening Silence of the Republican Field in the Wake of the Planned Parenthood Shooting The Deafening Silence of the Republican Field in the Wake of the Planned Parenthood Shooting
Republican contenders who have had so very much to say against Planned Parenthood were largely mum after Friday’s deadly violence.
Nov 28, 2015 / John Nichols
November 27, 1978: San Francisco Councilman Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone Are Assassinated November 27, 1978: San Francisco Councilman Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone Are Assassinated
“Milk spoke to and for his homosexual supporters, but he believed he was working for a greater good: the liberation of the surrounding society.”
Nov 27, 2015 / Richard Kreitner