With New Protections for Domestic Workers, What Is Next for Big Labor? With New Protections for Domestic Workers, What Is Next for Big Labor?
Concerted pressure from labor, “alt-labor” community, women’s, immigrants, seniors and disability rights groups made change happen after eighty years. A pledge by...
Sep 22, 2013 / Laura Flanders
Morning Joe’s Week-long Whine Over Obama ‘Optics’ Morning Joe’s Week-long Whine Over Obama ‘Optics’
Complaining that O’s timing stinks, they declare his presidency pretty much over.
Sep 20, 2013 / Leslie Savan
EPA Announces First-Ever Carbon Limits for New Power Plants EPA Announces First-Ever Carbon Limits for New Power Plants
The rules won’t affect current greenhouse gas emissions, but they set a framework for regulating carbon under the Clean Air Act.
Sep 20, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter
Republican Lawmakers Are Playing Politics With Human Lives, in Four Pictures Republican Lawmakers Are Playing Politics With Human Lives, in Four Pictures
Republicans have acknowledged that the health reform programs they intend to defund help save lives.
Sep 20, 2013 / Lee Fang
An Adjunct Tragedy An Adjunct Tragedy
In the death of a pauperized 83-year-old adjunct professor, a lesson on the long-term consequences of the making of an intellectual proletariat.
Sep 20, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
Anatomy of Outrage: On the Obamacare Resistance Anatomy of Outrage: On the Obamacare Resistance
Friday’s House vote to fund the government and defund the Affordable Care Act won’t derail healthcare reform, but sabotage might.
Sep 20, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter
The GOP’s No Good, Very Bad Food Stamp Cuts The GOP’s No Good, Very Bad Food Stamp Cuts
The Republican argument in favor of food stamp cuts lives in an alternate reality.
Sep 20, 2013 / George Zornick
At G20, Politicians Push the Same Neoliberal Agenda That Got Us Into This Mess At G20, Politicians Push the Same Neoliberal Agenda That Got Us Into This Mess
Meanwhile, activists organized a counter-summit to discuss the problems world leaders were unwilling to address.
Sep 20, 2013 / Alec Luhn
How the Media’s Process Obsession Stifles Liberalism and Undermines our Democracy How the Media’s Process Obsession Stifles Liberalism and Undermines our Democracy
Eric on the best new play in town; and Reed on problems of process journalism.
Sep 20, 2013 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Blame a Feminist: The Top Tragedies Feminism Has Wrought Blame a Feminist: The Top Tragedies Feminism Has Wrought
Are you having a bad day? It’s probably a feminist’s fault.
Sep 20, 2013 / Jessica Valenti