Outsourcing Accountability to the Political Opposition: The Beltway Media’s Agency Problem Outsourcing Accountability to the Political Opposition: The Beltway Media’s Agency Problem
Eric Alterman's weekly media-roundup and Reed Richardson's take on the "60 Minutes" Benghazi debacle.
Nov 15, 2013 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Bangladeshi Garment Workers Fight Back Bangladeshi Garment Workers Fight Back
Surging union growth and militancy is due to courageous leaders like Kalpona Akter: child laborer at 12, union president at 15, she’s now head of the Bangladesh Center for Wo...
Nov 15, 2013 / James North
Alec Baldwin Is an Embarrassment Alec Baldwin Is an Embarrassment
The actor and MSNBC host has a history of unhinged homophobia. So why does he keep getting a pass?
Nov 15, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Goldberg
Momentum Forms Around Extending Long-Term Unemployment Insurance Momentum Forms Around Extending Long-Term Unemployment Insurance
Democrats are now unified in extended the crucial benefits--will Republicans go along?
Nov 15, 2013 / George Zornick
Military Stifling Support for Sexual Assault Reforms, High-Ranking Officer Says Military Stifling Support for Sexual Assault Reforms, High-Ranking Officer Says
Commanders are also encouraging service members to lobby against Senator Gillibrand’s bill.
Nov 15, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter
Inside the Bulgarian Student Occupation Inside the Bulgarian Student Occupation
Fighting for their future in a poor country where corruption has marred development since the fall of the Soviet Union, students at Bulgaria's Sofia University have taken hold ...
Nov 15, 2013 / StudentNation / Max Rivlin-Nadler and StudentNation
Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance (Part 3) Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance (Part 3)
We talk about conservatism’s “business” and "traditionalist" wings. But when it gets right down to it, they’re as interconnected as the two sides ...
Nov 15, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/15/13 Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/15/13
This week: the media obsesses over female orgasms, states take action on minimum-wage laws and Syrian refugees in Bulgaria face death threats.
Nov 15, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
TEPCO’s Risky Operation at Fukushima TEPCO’s Risky Operation at Fukushima
Why are so few talking about the radiation threat soaring the Pacific?
Nov 15, 2013 / Laura Flanders
Demand an End to Child Labor Demand an End to Child Labor
Thanks to a loophole in the Fair Labor Standards Act, children in the United States as young as twelve are allowed to do often dangerous and backbreaking agricultural work.
Nov 14, 2013 / NationAction