Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (11/23/2012) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (11/23/2012)
This week: the ongoing fight against Citizens United, Obama's trip to Southeast Asia, and much more.
Nov 26, 2012 / StudentNation / StudentNation
John Nichols: Why Papa John’s and Denny’s Can’t Fight Obamacare John Nichols: Why Papa John’s and Denny’s Can’t Fight Obamacare
Heads of Denny’s and Papa John’s restaurants backed down on threats to retaliate against the Affordable Care Act.
Nov 26, 2012 / Press Room
Josh Eidelson: Why Walmart Failed to Suppress Black Friday Strikes Josh Eidelson: Why Walmart Failed to Suppress Black Friday Strikes
Despite “captive meetings” and the threat of arrest, hundreds of Walmart employees took a stand against the infamously anti-labor superstore.
Nov 26, 2012 / Press Room
Conservatives Griping About Obama’s Thanksgiving Proclamation: Try a Helping of FDR Conservatives Griping About Obama’s Thanksgiving Proclamation: Try a Helping of FDR
Obama’s modestly enlightened statement has right-wingers in a tizzy. What would they say about Roosevelt’s proclamations decrying greed and celebrating “our sense...
Nov 22, 2012 / John Nichols
Black Friday Strike Will Test the Power of High-Stakes Online Organizing Black Friday Strike Will Test the Power of High-Stakes Online Organizing
Will Facebook conversations mobilize workers to strike?
Nov 22, 2012 / Josh Eidelson
Josh Eidelson: Walmart Is a Pioneer in Unionbusting Josh Eidelson: Walmart Is a Pioneer in Unionbusting
If the Walmart workers can win, it will send a message to low-wage, anti-labor corporations everywhere.
Nov 21, 2012 / Press Room
Broadwell and Petraeus—Embedded Broadwell and Petraeus—Embedded
If the director of the CIA and a Reserve intelligence officer can’t even conduct a decent affair, what does that say about the institution that groomed them?
Nov 20, 2012 / JoAnn Wypijewski
Remember Savita Halappanavar Remember Savita Halappanavar
Her death is a warning: It could happen here.
Nov 20, 2012 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Motives and Apprehensions: On Edward P. Jones Motives and Apprehensions: On Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones’s characters know that everything they’ve worked for might suddenly be taken from them.
Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
Chicken Wire and Telephone Calls: On Robert Caro’s LBJ Chicken Wire and Telephone Calls: On Robert Caro’s LBJ
In The Passage of Power, Robert Caro shows that LBJ’s brilliance as a politician lay not in his idealism but his opportunism.
Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney