Striking Worker and Bangladesh Activist Address Thousands at Walmart Shareholder Meeting Striking Worker and Bangladesh Activist Address Thousands at Walmart Shareholder Meeting
While executives touted opportunity at ‘your Walmart,’ an OUR Walmart activist at today's meeting delivered a very different message.
Jun 7, 2013 / Josh Eidelson
From NOLA to New Jersey, Students Rise Up for Immigrant Justice From NOLA to New Jersey, Students Rise Up for Immigrant Justice
As immigration reform approaches and the semester ends, students hit the streets for racial and reproductive justice.
Jun 7, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
The NSA Doppelganger The NSA Doppelganger
In 1975, the NSA story was almost exactly the same: the Hoovering up of data, the protection of corporate quislings, the relative public indifference. The difference? Back then, Co...
Jun 7, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
Jeremy Scahill: Inside the US Dirty War in Yemen Jeremy Scahill: Inside the US Dirty War in Yemen
Why is the US targeting and killing US citizens in drone strikes?
Jun 7, 2013 / Press Room
The Disillusionment of ‘Before Midnight’ The Disillusionment of ‘Before Midnight’
Linklater’s latest installment in his trilogy of GenX romance shows that hope isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Jun 7, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Dean
Denying a Head Start in Washington State Denying a Head Start in Washington State
Head Start cuts in Washington State show just how dumb and shortsighted the sequester is.
Jun 7, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
This Week in Poverty: American Winter Arrives at Capitol Hill This Week in Poverty: American Winter Arrives at Capitol Hill
Three Oregonians testifed in the Senate about the lives of the working poor and the state of the American Dream.
Jun 7, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
We Win: San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Will Be Shut Down We Win: San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Will Be Shut Down
Decades of protest by local activists has resulted in a historic victory.
Jun 7, 2013 / Jon Wiener
Ai Weiwei: Political Art at the Venice Biennale Ai Weiwei: Political Art at the Venice Biennale
Six dioramas present key moments of the eighty-one-day imprisonment of the worlld’s most famous artist.
Jun 7, 2013 / Jon Wiener
Walmart Strikers Target Waltons, as NOW Calls Out Obamas Walmart Strikers Target Waltons, as NOW Calls Out Obamas
The National Organization for Women's president says the Obamas have "screwed up" by praising Walmart.
Jun 7, 2013 / Josh Eidelson