American Exceptionalism, According to Oliver Stone American Exceptionalism, According to Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States will be rereleased this month on DVD; it tells a different story than the school textbooks we're used to.
Oct 1, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Government Leakers Who Truly Endanger America Will Never Face Prosecution The Government Leakers Who Truly Endanger America Will Never Face Prosecution
Officials leak secrets to advance careers or justify wars and weapons programs, but Edward Snowden’s the criminal?
Oct 1, 2013 / Robert Scheer
United States and Russia Reach Agreement on Syrian Disarmament United States and Russia Reach Agreement on Syrian Disarmament
In arriving at a unanimous agreement on a resolution to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons, the Security Council has proved that the UN still matters.
Oct 1, 2013 / Barbara Crossette
Federal Workers Nationwide Protest Government Shutdown Federal Workers Nationwide Protest Government Shutdown
Federal workers all across the country are protesting the government’s shutdown.
Oct 1, 2013 / Allison Kilkenny
With 2.3 Million People Incarcerated in the US, Prisons Are Big Business With 2.3 Million People Incarcerated in the US, Prisons Are Big Business
Meet the corporations who are profiting off our prison system.
Oct 1, 2013 / Liliana Segura
America Gets Primaried America Gets Primaried
The government shutdown is all about electoral politics—particularly the gerrymandering of Republican districts and primaries that make compromise impossible.
Oct 1, 2013 / John Nichols
The Tea Party Freedom Fighters The Tea Party Freedom Fighters
Standing up for your right to be denied health coverage.
Oct 1, 2013 / Tom Tomorrow
The End of Abortion Funding Restrictions? The End of Abortion Funding Restrictions?
Thirty-seven years after Congress first ended Medicaid funding of abortion, a new coalition of abortion rights and reproductive justice groups is poised to fight back.
Sep 30, 2013 / Stephanie Poggi
Government Shutdown Will Hit Federal Workers, Poor Americans Government Shutdown Will Hit Federal Workers, Poor Americans
About 800,000 federal employees will be furloughed, with no guarantee of retroactive pay.
Sep 30, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter
Thinking Like a Conservative (Part Three): On Shutting Down Government Thinking Like a Conservative (Part Three): On Shutting Down Government
It shouldn’t be surprising that conservatives who conceptualize politics as war, and an activist state as Satan, would be willing to shut down the federal government.
Sep 30, 2013 / Rick Perlstein