Dispatches From the US Student Movement: February 15 Dispatches From the US Student Movement: February 15
This week, students converge on Raleigh and Pasadena, ramp up BDS and occupy Adidas. With Scott Walker sticking around, what's next for Wisconsin's grad TAs? What do studen...
Feb 15, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
American Horror Story: Oscar Pistorius and Misogynist Myth-Making American Horror Story: Oscar Pistorius and Misogynist Myth-Making
The lies we tell about domestic violence are killing women.
Feb 15, 2013 / Jessica Valenti
ICE’s Latest Stop for Deportations: The DMV ICE’s Latest Stop for Deportations: The DMV
A Freedom of Information Act Request reveals that immigration agents were instructed to search DMV records to target immigrants.
Feb 15, 2013 / Aura Bogado
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/15/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/15/13)
This week, articles critique the spotty broadband coverage in the United States, our complacent foreign policy in the Middle East, the idealistic education proposals in Barack Obam...
Feb 15, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Hamas? What Hamas? Hamas? What Hamas?
Liberals concerned with Israel often miss the inconvenient fact of the radical Palestinian organization's human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip. Reed Richardson also writes abo...
Feb 14, 2013 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
White People Have to Give Up Racism White People Have to Give Up Racism
It's the only real solution to deaths like those of Trayvon Martin and Rodgrio Diaz.
Feb 14, 2013 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: A Coming Preschool Backlash? Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: A Coming Preschool Backlash?
In his State of the Union, Obama naively proposed universal preschool as a conservative idea. Conservatives will not agree.
Feb 14, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
One Billion Rising One Billion Rising
After breaking the silence around physical violence against women, will the global mobilization take on the economy?
Feb 14, 2013 / Laura Flanders
Time for Labor to Mobilize Immigrants Time for Labor to Mobilize Immigrants
Immigration reform can be labor’s game-changer.
Feb 13, 2013 / Feature / Maria Elena Durazo
NBA Player Royce White: Mental Health Revolutionary NBA Player Royce White: Mental Health Revolutionary
Pro basketball player Royce White is laying claim to a powerful tradition by standing up for mental health in a society growing more stressful by the day.
Feb 13, 2013 / Dave Zirin