Debating Students for Educational Reform: A Response Debating Students for Educational Reform: A Response
The co-founder of SFER asks that her group be defined by those who are a part of us, rather than those who are not.
Aug 5, 2013 / StudentNation / Catharine Bellinger
What’s Really Behind Obama’s Praise of Ray Kelly? What’s Really Behind Obama’s Praise of Ray Kelly?
Obama sounds the notes of racial justice at key moments, while asserting unprecedented power to implement policies that are destructive, discriminatory—and embodied by the NY...
Aug 5, 2013 / Amna Akbar and Jeanne Theoharis
Obama and Iran’s New President Obama and Iran’s New President
Hawks on both sides are a problem, but President Obama has to seize this opportunity.
Aug 5, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
How DC Home Rule Will Help Low-Income Women Seeking Abortions How DC Home Rule Will Help Low-Income Women Seeking Abortions
DC autonomy is now more likely than ever, and with it will come the lifting of a ban on Medicaid coverage of abortion for local women.
Aug 5, 2013 / Samantha Lachman
Who’s Afraid of Radical History? Who’s Afraid of Radical History?
Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.
Aug 5, 2013 / Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow
Welcome to Post-Constitution America Welcome to Post-Constitution America
What if your country begins to change and no one notices?
Aug 5, 2013 / Peter Van Buren
Hunger Strikers Demand Access to Organ Transplants for Undocumented Immigrants Hunger Strikers Demand Access to Organ Transplants for Undocumented Immigrants
A group of hunger strikers is demanding access to organ transplants to save the lives of undocumented immigrants.
Aug 5, 2013 / Allison Kilkenny
On Alex Rodriguez and the ‘Best Interests of the Game’ On Alex Rodriguez and the ‘Best Interests of the Game’
Alex Rodriguez is facing unprecedented sanctions by Major League Baseball, which is exactly why the union should have his back.
Aug 4, 2013 / Dave Zirin
Edward Snowden E-Mailed Me! He Wants My Help Getting Millions Out of Hong Kong Edward Snowden E-Mailed Me! He Wants My Help Getting Millions Out of Hong Kong
His writing needs improvement.
Aug 4, 2013 / Jon Wiener
Did Scott Walker Really Go and Compare Himself to Franklin Roosevelt? Did Scott Walker Really Go and Compare Himself to Franklin Roosevelt?
An anti-labor governor tries to claim the mantle of the president who championed collective bargaining. Fail!
Aug 3, 2013 / John Nichols