Teachers to Education Secretary Arne Duncan: Please Quit Teachers to Education Secretary Arne Duncan: Please Quit
National Education Association calls out Obama’s education secretary for focusing on high-stakes testing. Democrats should take the criticism seriously.
Jul 8, 2014 / Blog / John Nichols
How Consumers Are Getting Screwed by Court-Enforced Arbitration How Consumers Are Getting Screwed by Court-Enforced Arbitration
The Supreme Court has given financial institutions and employers a license to do wrong—and it’s hitting the poor especially hard.
Jul 8, 2014 / Herman Schwartz
Obama’s Evangelical Gravy Train Obama’s Evangelical Gravy Train
Despite the president’s promise to cut funding to discredited HIV and pregnancy prevention programs, taxpayer dollars are still bankrolling anti-gay, anti-choice conservative relig...
Jul 8, 2014 / Andy Kopsa
Why the Supreme Court’s Attack on Labor Hurts Women Most Why the Supreme Court’s Attack on Labor Hurts Women Most
The Hobby Lobby case is more clearly aimed at women, but Harris v. Quinn may prove even more consequential for the lives of working women.
Jul 7, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen
Nullification: Jurors’ Secret Weapon Against Harsh Sentencing Nullification: Jurors’ Secret Weapon Against Harsh Sentencing
Juries have the right to judge the law as well as the defendant.
Jul 7, 2014 / Molly Knefel
10 Questions All Politicians Should Answer About Gun Control 10 Questions All Politicians Should Answer About Gun Control
Thanks to an effort by Everytown for Gun Safety, the NRA will now not be the only group asking candidates for their positions on gun control.
Jul 7, 2014 / Blog / George Zornick
Before the World Cup Ends, Will the Media Tell the Truth? Before the World Cup Ends, Will the Media Tell the Truth?
There is a narrative emerging in the US press that Brazil’s protests have been small because everyone is just happy with the World Cup. It’s not true.
Jul 7, 2014 / Blog / Dave Zirin
What Happened When One Country Required All Corporate Boards to Be 40% Women What Happened When One Country Required All Corporate Boards to Be 40% Women
A new study finds board quotas don’t improve conditions for the average working woman, but they do the job of giving women more representation among powerful roles.
Jul 7, 2014 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Is Obama Throwing Immigrant Children Under the Bus? Is Obama Throwing Immigrant Children Under the Bus?
Now that Obama has given up trying to appease the GOP, why he is considering weakening a law intended to protect immigrant children from trafficking and violence?
Jul 4, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
Deadly World Cup Legacy Continues as Overpass Collapses in Brazilian Host City Deadly World Cup Legacy Continues as Overpass Collapses in Brazilian Host City
As two are dead and nineteen injured as an overpass collapsed in Belo Horizonte. The most awful part of this tragedy is that it did not have to happen.
Jul 3, 2014 / Blog / Dave Zirin