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After Temple Shooting, Bloomberg Campaigns Against Intolerance and Gun Violence, and for… After Temple Shooting, Bloomberg Campaigns Against Intolerance and Gun Violence, and for…

Bloomberg has stirred presidential buzz before. He’s not running this year. But he is campaigning on some of the biggest issues of the moment.

Aug 7, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols

The Hunger Wars in Our Future The Hunger Wars in Our Future

The summer of 2012 has been one of heat, drought, rising food costs and global unrest.

Aug 7, 2012 / Michael T. Klare

Racial Profiling on Trial in Arizona (Video) Racial Profiling on Trial in Arizona (Video)

Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing a class action suit that accuses him of racism in law enforcement. Is Arpaio the only problem? Another problem is the federal governmen...

Aug 7, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders

Omar Jadwat: Stopping Racial Profiling in Arizona

Omar Jadwat: Stopping Racial Profiling in Arizona Omar Jadwat: Stopping Racial Profiling in Arizona

How do you put a human face on an injustice that so often goes under the radar?

Aug 6, 2012 / Video / Francis Reynolds

Chris Hayes Gets Called ‘Media Elite’ by Stephen Colbert Chris Hayes Gets Called ‘Media Elite’ by Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert took Hayes to task on his show, holding up Hayes's book Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy.

Aug 6, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Press Room

John Nichols: The Weakening of Gun Laws John Nichols: The Weakening of Gun Laws

Even after the massacre at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, gun laws are likely to remain lax. 

Aug 6, 2012 / Nation in the News / Press Room

Avraham Burg, the ‘Times’ and ‘Anti-Zionism’ Avraham Burg, the ‘Times’ and ‘Anti-Zionism’

The writer lacerates Israel in an op-ed, but that doesn’t make the paper a bastion of anti-Zionism.

Aug 6, 2012 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss

Oscar Pistorius and ‘the Dignity of Risk’

Oscar Pistorius and ‘the Dignity of Risk’ Oscar Pistorius and ‘the Dignity of Risk’

Pistorius has made history by becoming the first double amputee to compete at the Olympic Games.

Aug 6, 2012 / Blog / Dave Zirin

Updated: Texas Executes Man With IQ of 61

Updated: Texas Executes Man With IQ of 61 Updated: Texas Executes Man With IQ of 61

The Supreme Court waved forward the execution of Marvin Wilson despite a 2002 ban on executing people with intellectual disabilities.

Aug 6, 2012 / Blog / Liliana Segura

Shootings at Sikh Temple Test the Founding Faith of America

Shootings at Sikh Temple Test the Founding Faith of America Shootings at Sikh Temple Test the Founding Faith of America

Now is the time for President Obama to affirm the Jeffersonian ideal that no American “should suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief.”

Aug 6, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols

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