What the UN Owes Haiti What the UN Owes Haiti
Despite the fact that its "peacekeepers" brought cholera to Haiti, the UN is refusing to fund obvious solutions.
Mar 20, 2013 / Isabeau Doucet
Kimani Gray: Guilty Until Proven Innocent Kimani Gray: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
News stories that followed the NYPD’s killing of a 16-year-old Brooklyn boy show how we criminalize people based on race and geography.
Mar 20, 2013 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Are Memphis Prosecutors Trying to Send an Innocent Man Back to Death Row? Are Memphis Prosecutors Trying to Send an Innocent Man Back to Death Row?
Witnesses say they saw Timothy McKinney shoot an off-duty police officer in 1997. But their stories have changed—and the DA’s office has been caught hiding evidence in ...
Mar 20, 2013 / Feature / Liliana Segura
John Nichols: The Death and Rebirth of Journalism John Nichols: The Death and Rebirth of Journalism
If the field has a future, what will it look like? And what does this mean for American democracy?
Mar 20, 2013 / Press Room
Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique
For Betty Friedan, feminism was humanism: a question of growth, maturation and identity.
Mar 20, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein
The Quarrels of Others: On Anti-Semitism The Quarrels of Others: On Anti-Semitism
With Anti-Judaism, David Nirenberg has recast the debate about the origins and nature of anti-Semitism in Western thought.
Mar 20, 2013 / Books & the Arts / R.I. Moore
Women in Healthcare Suffer Abuse Inside and Outside the Home Women in Healthcare Suffer Abuse Inside and Outside the Home
The difficult conditions that affect domestic workers also plague nurses in hospitals.
Mar 20, 2013 / Bryce Covert
‘Top of the Lake’: The Most Remarkable Depiction of Violence Against Women on TV ‘Top of the Lake’: The Most Remarkable Depiction of Violence Against Women on TV
The show somehow understands things about the pervasiveness and horror of violence and sexual abuse that most police procedurals don’t.
Mar 19, 2013 / Michelle Dean
AUDIO: New York’s Police Union Worked With the NYPD to Set Arrest and Summons Quotas AUDIO: New York’s Police Union Worked With the NYPD to Set Arrest and Summons Quotas
The department’s emphasis on numbers and the union's cooperation has led to millions of suspicion-less stop-and-frisks.
Mar 19, 2013 / Ross Tuttle
Who Did You Rape in the War, Daddy? Who Did You Rape in the War, Daddy?
It’s time to start asking questions of our veterans—hard questions—so that they're not shouldering the blame, or truth, of war alone.
Mar 19, 2013 / Nick Turse