Donald Sterling’s Impolite Racism Donald Sterling’s Impolite Racism
The embattled basketball team owner broke the rules of how one should go about being racist in America.
Apr 28, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith
When Acceptance Just Isn’t Acceptable: Netanyahu’s Denial of Holocaust Acceptance When Acceptance Just Isn’t Acceptable: Netanyahu’s Denial of Holocaust Acceptance
Answering statements of Holocaust acceptance with denial is becoming a Netanyahu trademark.
Apr 28, 2014 / Eli Clifton
How New York’s Taxi Drivers Lost Their Health Insurance Fund How New York’s Taxi Drivers Lost Their Health Insurance Fund
The impasse facing the TWA healthcare program stems from the taxi workforce’s structural exclusion from labor protections
Apr 28, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Washington University Sit-In Against Peabody Enters Historic Third Week Washington University Sit-In Against Peabody Enters Historic Third Week
Every day that the Washington University chancellor fails to answer questions and demands for the university to cut ties with the energy giant, he and his university remain on the ...
Apr 28, 2014 / StudentNation / Jeff Biggers and StudentNation
Russia Sabotages the Geneva Ukraine Accord, but New Sanctions Won’t Help Russia Sabotages the Geneva Ukraine Accord, but New Sanctions Won’t Help
And expanding or strengthening NATO will make things worse.
Apr 28, 2014 / Bob Dreyfuss
Abu Ghraib: A Torture Story Without a Hero or an Ending Abu Ghraib: A Torture Story Without a Hero or an Ending
Despite all evidence to the contrary, many Americans continue to believe that brutality, torture and rank illegality is the road to national safety.
Apr 28, 2014 / Karen J. Greenberg
Snapshot: Blood for Treasure Snapshot: Blood for Treasure
Photographer Marcus Bleasdale spent a decade in the Congo documenting the extraction of conflict minerals. This image depicts a child gold miner and former soldier. In April, a US Appeals Court ruled that forcing corporations to disclose conflict minerals in their products would violate their free-speech rights.
Apr 28, 2014 / Marcus Bleasdale
Donald Sterling’s Willing Enablers Donald Sterling’s Willing Enablers
NBA commissioner Adam Silver has to account for why the owners have abided Sterling for so long.
Apr 27, 2014 / Dave Zirin
Donald Sterling: Slumlord Billionaire Donald Sterling: Slumlord Billionaire
Following the uproar over audio revelations of a racist rant by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, it is worth noting that Sterling’s racism, misogyny and otherwise awful ...
Apr 26, 2014 / Dave Zirin
Forty Years After the Bloodiest Prison Uprising in US History, the Attica Cover-up Continues Forty Years After the Bloodiest Prison Uprising in US History, the Attica Cover-up Continues
A judge has permitted the partial release of long-sealed Attica papers, but the full story of the assault remains hidden.
Apr 25, 2014 / Scott Christianson