The Data Hackers The Data Hackers
Mining your information for Big Brother.
Oct 8, 2013 / Pratap Chatterjee
California Just Got a Little Safer for Undocumented Residents California Just Got a Little Safer for Undocumented Residents
An assortment of bills signed into law will allow undocumented immigrants to breathe, drive, and work a little easier.
Oct 8, 2013 / Aura Bogado
Domestic Violence Shelters Struggle to Stay Open During Shutdown Domestic Violence Shelters Struggle to Stay Open During Shutdown
Cut off from federal funding, programs serving abused women may be forced to close.
Oct 8, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter
Racism and Cruelty: What’s Behind the GOP’s Healthcare Agenda? Racism and Cruelty: What’s Behind the GOP’s Healthcare Agenda?
Republicans replay their Southern Strategy in an attempt to undermine the Affordable Care Act.
Oct 8, 2013 / Robert Scheer
Meet the Medical Company Making $1.4 Billion a Year Off Sick Prisoners Meet the Medical Company Making $1.4 Billion a Year Off Sick Prisoners
In states that use Corizon to provide healthcare in their prisons, medical neglect and abuse run rampant.
Oct 8, 2013 / NationAction
How Masters and Johnson Remade Love How Masters and Johnson Remade Love
On the occasion of Showtime’s new miniseries, reflections on how the world changed when women learned to demand men give them orgasms.
Oct 7, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein
Label Inflation in the NYC Mayoral Race Label Inflation in the NYC Mayoral Race
De Blasio has now been called a progressive, a communist and a fiscal conservative.
Oct 7, 2013 / Leslie Savan
‘60 Minutes’ Gets Disability Insurance All Wrong ‘60 Minutes’ Gets Disability Insurance All Wrong
A supposedly damning piece from CBS News omitted several key facts.
Oct 7, 2013 / George Zornick
No Country for Young Women: America’s War on Girls’ Bodies No Country for Young Women: America’s War on Girls’ Bodies
A 16-year-old woman in Nebraska has been forced to carry a child to birth by a court—we must stop punishing young women for their bodies and let them make their own choices. ...
Oct 7, 2013 / Jessica Valenti
Our House Is On Fire: The Reality of Our Changing Climate Our House Is On Fire: The Reality of Our Changing Climate
We might not want to acknowledge it, but climate change is real and it's happening now.
Oct 7, 2013 / Rebecca Solnit