What’s Really Behind Obama’s Praise of Ray Kelly? What’s Really Behind Obama’s Praise of Ray Kelly?
Obama sounds the notes of racial justice at key moments, while asserting unprecedented power to implement policies that are destructive, discriminatory—and embodied by the NY...
Aug 5, 2013 / Amna Akbar and Jeanne Theoharis
How DC Home Rule Will Help Low-Income Women Seeking Abortions How DC Home Rule Will Help Low-Income Women Seeking Abortions
DC autonomy is now more likely than ever, and with it will come the lifting of a ban on Medicaid coverage of abortion for local women.
Aug 5, 2013 / Samantha Lachman
Who’s Afraid of Radical History? Who’s Afraid of Radical History?
Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.
Aug 5, 2013 / Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow
Hunger Strikers Demand Access to Organ Transplants for Undocumented Immigrants Hunger Strikers Demand Access to Organ Transplants for Undocumented Immigrants
A group of hunger strikers is demanding access to organ transplants to save the lives of undocumented immigrants.
Aug 5, 2013 / Allison Kilkenny
On Alex Rodriguez and the ‘Best Interests of the Game’ On Alex Rodriguez and the ‘Best Interests of the Game’
Alex Rodriguez is facing unprecedented sanctions by Major League Baseball, which is exactly why the union should have his back.
Aug 4, 2013 / Dave Zirin
Edward Snowden E-Mailed Me! He Wants My Help Getting Millions Out of Hong Kong Edward Snowden E-Mailed Me! He Wants My Help Getting Millions Out of Hong Kong
His writing needs improvement.
Aug 4, 2013 / Jon Wiener
From Tallahassee to Mexico City, the Youth Uprising Continues From Tallahassee to Mexico City, the Youth Uprising Continues
From the Dream 9, to the Dream Defenders, to San Francisco, to Chicago, young people mass for social justice.
Aug 2, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
GMOs to the Rescue? GMOs to the Rescue?
A flurry of recent news claims GMOs can save agriculture and raises some concerns.
Aug 2, 2013 / Madeline Ostrander
A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Month for Freedom of the Press A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Month for Freedom of the Press
Eric on The Boss; and Reed on the alarming assault on free press.
Aug 2, 2013 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (8/2/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (8/2/13)
This week: struggles to open abortion clinics in Kansas, critiques of Obama's rhetoric on the middle class, "Dreamers" trying to return to the country in which ...
Aug 2, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation