You Must Watch the Empire Bowl You Must Watch the Empire Bowl
By this year's Super Bowl, if you are still passionately following football or, worse, allowing your kid to play, you may just be an old-fashioned imperialist running dog.
Jan 31, 2011 / Robert Lipsyte
Syracuse University Law School Details New Free-Speech Policy Syracuse University Law School Details New Free-Speech Policy
Syracuse University places a high value on free speech and due process, but also places a high value on the rights of all of its students to study and learn in an environment free ...
Jan 30, 2011 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Temporary Stay Granted on Targeted Ugandan Lesbian’s Deportation Temporary Stay Granted on Targeted Ugandan Lesbian’s Deportation
Gay Ugandan activist David Kato was beaten to death earlier this week. Now it’s Brenda Namigadde, a Ugandan lesbian whose immigration status in Britain is unresolved, with a ...
Jan 28, 2011 / Nancy Goldstein
ROTC’s Response to WikiLeaks Puts Academic Freedom at Risk ROTC’s Response to WikiLeaks Puts Academic Freedom at Risk
ROTC memo prohibiting cadets from using WikiLeaks cables for course assignments could impact Stanford's decision on whether to allow ROTC to return to campus.
Jan 27, 2011 / StudentNation / Kevin Gosztola
Dan Bell, RIP Dan Bell, RIP
On the late Daniel Bell, the very archetype of a committed liberal intellectual, and The New Republic's Marty Peretz, plus reader mail.
Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Stockton Goes Bust Stockton Goes Bust
In California's Central Valley, the collapse of the housing bubble is causing acute misery.
Jan 27, 2011 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s Horror Show Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s Horror Show
This is what illegal abortion looks like.
Jan 27, 2011 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Targeted Ugandan Gay Activist Murdered Targeted Ugandan Gay Activist Murdered
Ugandan activist David Kato was a leading voice against the country's notorious "Anti-Homosexuality Bill"—which was written with the help of three American evangeli...
Jan 27, 2011 / Nancy Goldstein
Hogwash, Mr. President Hogwash, Mr. President
What is the state of the union? You certainly couldn’t tell from that platitudinous hogwash that the president dished out.
Jan 26, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Frances Fox Piven Is Way Tougher Than Glenn Beck Frances Fox Piven Is Way Tougher Than Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck must have thought he had an easy mark when he targeted Frances Fox Piven. But Glenn Beck is wrong.
Jan 25, 2011 / Nancy Goldstein