California Governor Signs Domestic Worker Bill of Rights California Governor Signs Domestic Worker Bill of Rights
Early Thursday afternoon on the West Coast, Governor Jerry Brown tweeted a message: “Today, I signed a bill to help California’s domestic workers.”
Sep 26, 2013 / Laura Flanders
Puzzle One Hundred Puzzle One Hundred
More than two years setting puzzles for The Nation
Sep 26, 2013 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Wall Street’s Odd Calm About a Debt-Ceiling Breach Wall Street’s Odd Calm About a Debt-Ceiling Breach
At a meeting with Wall Street big shots today, Elizabeth Warren plead for more action to avert debt-ceiling disaster.
Sep 26, 2013 / George Zornick
Breaking the Cycle of Anger Breaking the Cycle of Anger
Prabhjot Singh’s clemency toward his at-large attackers should be admired, not taken as a sign of weakness.
Sep 26, 2013 / Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Palin Adviser Used Dark Money Group to Fund ‘Mystery’ Attack Ads Palin Adviser Used Dark Money Group to Fund ‘Mystery’ Attack Ads
Sarah Palin’s main political adviser used a dark-money group to finance undisclosed campaign ads last year, new documents show.
Sep 26, 2013 / Lee Fang
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 9/26/13 Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 9/26/13
This week: New York City’s employed homeless, the assassination of a leftist Greek rapper and the unintended consequences of urban densification.
Sep 26, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Repression and Gay Rights in Russia Repression and Gay Rights in Russia
A wave of anti-gay laws have brought Russia’s LGBT movement into the international spotlight, but activists are divided over strategies, including proposed boycotts.
Sep 26, 2013 / Sean Guillory
Slave Labor? Mass Prisons? FIFA Mangles the World Cup and the Beautiful Game Slave Labor? Mass Prisons? FIFA Mangles the World Cup and the Beautiful Game
News out of Brazil and Qatar put World Cup preparations in a horrible new light.
Sep 26, 2013 / Dave Zirin
House GOP Debt-Ceiling Plan: Paul Ryan’s Losing Ideas From 2012 House GOP Debt-Ceiling Plan: Paul Ryan’s Losing Ideas From 2012
In return for allowing the debt ceiling to rise, House Republicans are promoting the agenda voters rejected in 2012.
Sep 26, 2013 / John Nichols
Iraq Warns the US: ‘Don’t Arm the Syrian Rebels’ Iraq Warns the US: ‘Don’t Arm the Syrian Rebels’
Vast carnage in Iraq as Syrian spillover threatens to reignite Iraq’s own civil war.
Sep 26, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss