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Tim DeChristopher: There Is No ‘Neutral’ in the Climate Fight

Tim DeChristopher: There Is No ‘Neutral’ in the Climate Fight Tim DeChristopher: There Is No ‘Neutral’ in the Climate Fight

A response to Harvard President Drew Faust by climate activist Tim DeChristopher, now studying at Harvard Divinity School, on fossil-fuel divestment.

Oct 4, 2013 / Wen Stephenson

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 10/4/13

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 10/4/13 Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 10/4/13

This week: the beneficiaries of the prison industrial complex, an unjustified detention at the border, and an inside look at the US intern economy.

Oct 4, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Congressional Liberals Mobilize to Keep Social Insurance Out of Shutdown Talks

Congressional Liberals Mobilize to Keep Social Insurance Out of Shutdown Talks Congressional Liberals Mobilize to Keep Social Insurance Out of Shutdown Talks

Progressive members of Congress are pledging to oppose 

Oct 3, 2013 / George Zornick

Will the Right Paint NYC’s Next First Lady as an ‘Angry Black Woman’?

Will the Right Paint NYC’s Next First Lady as an ‘Angry Black Woman’? Will the Right Paint NYC’s Next First Lady as an ‘Angry Black Woman’?

After tagging Bill de Blasio a “commie,” how will they twist the image of Chirlane McCray?

Oct 3, 2013 / Leslie Savan

Shutdown Continues, but Obamacare Is Up and (Mostly) Running

Shutdown Continues, but Obamacare Is Up and (Mostly) Running Shutdown Continues, but Obamacare Is Up and (Mostly) Running

The future of the GOP, not the Affordable Care Act, is what's at stake now in Congress. 

Oct 2, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter

Canadians Remain Imprisoned in Egypt Without Charge

Canadians Remain Imprisoned in Egypt Without Charge Canadians Remain Imprisoned in Egypt Without Charge

Hundreds of witnesses to massacre by Egyptian security forces face extended detention.

Oct 2, 2013 / Press Room

Noted Noted

How corporations seek to make big bucks off mass incarceration.

Oct 2, 2013 / Liliana Segura

Marshall Berman: All That Is Solid Melts…

Marshall Berman: All That Is Solid Melts… Marshall Berman: All That Is Solid Melts…

Liberals honor a great public intellectual—while the editor of Commentary compares him to a Nazi. 

Oct 2, 2013 / Column / Eric Alterman

Americans Hate Obamacare, Love Affordable Care Act

Americans Hate Obamacare, Love Affordable Care Act Americans Hate Obamacare, Love Affordable Care Act

Jimmy Kimmel shows they don’t get that O’care=ACA.

Oct 2, 2013 / Leslie Savan

Hate Crime Laws Don’t Prevent Violence Against LGBT People

Hate Crime Laws Don’t Prevent Violence Against LGBT People Hate Crime Laws Don’t Prevent Violence Against LGBT People

So why do many LGBT people, and others, feel so deeply about the need to have them?

Oct 2, 2013 / Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, and Michael Amico

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