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Massive May Day Turnout Highlights Media’s Disconnect From Reality Massive May Day Turnout Highlights Media’s Disconnect From Reality

How the establishment media failed during their May Day coverage.

May 3, 2012 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny

What Does the Religious Right Want From Romney? What Does the Religious Right Want From Romney?

Bryan Fischer brags that social conservatives forced Mitt to fire a gay staffer. What else would they like to make him do?

May 3, 2012 / Blog / Ben Adler

May Day 2012: Love in a Hopeless Place? May Day 2012: Love in a Hopeless Place?

May Day in New York was chaotic, creative and diffuse. Was it a glimpse of what’s to come? Or a the wreckage of what’s left on the left?

May 3, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders

End Student Debt!

End Student Debt! End Student Debt!

Total debt now exceeds $1 trillion. We should write off existing debt and make public college free.

May 2, 2012 / Editorial / The Editors

Dial M for Murdoch

Dial M for Murdoch Dial M for Murdoch

British investigations reveal the shocking extent of his shady tactics. Can we really believe he hasn’t used the same methods here?

May 2, 2012 / Editorial / D.D. Guttenplan

Women: Occupy the Left

Women: Occupy the Left Women: Occupy the Left

Why is it so hard to understand that women's rights are an economic issue?

May 2, 2012 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Roger Williams, America’s First Rebel

Roger Williams, America’s First Rebel Roger Williams, America’s First Rebel

The founder of Providence was the first to see that religious freedom, and separation of church and state, was intimately connected with political freedom.  

May 2, 2012 / Feature / John M. Barry

Democracy and Education: On Andrew Delbanco

Democracy and Education: On Andrew Delbanco Democracy and Education: On Andrew Delbanco

In College, Andrew Delbanco explains the reversal of the postwar project of democratic expansion in higher education.

May 2, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Richard Wolin

NFL Player Junior Seau Takes His Own Life NFL Player Junior Seau Takes His Own Life

Junior Seau is the NFL’s second suicide in less than two weeks.

May 2, 2012 / Blog / Dave Zirin

Free Pussy Riot Free Pussy Riot

A feminist punk band rocks Russian politics and the Orthodox Church.

May 2, 2012 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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