Beyond ‘Bulworth’: Obama’s Manchurian Moment Beyond ‘Bulworth’: Obama’s Manchurian Moment
What other films have inspired the Obama presidency?
May 21, 2013 / Steve Brodner
Going Bulworth Going Bulworth
In the film Bulworth, a senator up for re-election starts calling it like it is. Mired in a second-term funk, why doesn’t Obama do the same?
May 21, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You
Yahoo isn’t buying the blogging service for its profitability. It’s buying it for the advertising possibilities.
May 21, 2013 / Robert Scheer
How America Became a Third World Country How America Became a Third World Country
By 2023, what will we make of 2013?
May 21, 2013 / Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford
The First Couple’s Post-Racial Bootstraps Myth The First Couple’s Post-Racial Bootstraps Myth
Michelle and Barack Obama’s troubling advice to black graduates includes some seriously worn-out stereotypes.
May 21, 2013 / Aura Bogado
How to Help in Oklahoma How to Help in Oklahoma
As is always the case, it’s the poor who are bearing the brunt of the catastrophe.
May 21, 2013 / Peter Rothberg
Assad Makes Crucial Gains As US-Russia Peace Conference Teeters Assad Makes Crucial Gains As US-Russia Peace Conference Teeters
Toppling Assad, it turns out, isn’t so easy.
May 21, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
This May Hurt… So Just Ignore It This May Hurt… So Just Ignore It
Being malcontent never made anyone happy.
May 21, 2013 / Tom Tomorrow
‘Our Liberty Cannot Be Guarded but by the Freedom of the Press’ ‘Our Liberty Cannot Be Guarded but by the Freedom of the Press’
Libertarian Republicans and progressive Democrats are moving to restore privacy rights in light of revelations of Department of Justice threats to press freedom.
May 21, 2013 / John Nichols
Hundreds of Non-Union Workers With Taxpayer-Supported Jobs Plan to Strike Today Hundreds of Non-Union Workers With Taxpayer-Supported Jobs Plan to Strike Today
A new study says nearly 2 million workers with taxpayer-supported jobs make $12 per hour or less.
May 21, 2013 / Josh Eidelson