Let’s Not Normalize This Thing Called ‘Terrorism’: A Conversation With Sohail Daulatzai Let’s Not Normalize This Thing Called ‘Terrorism’: A Conversation With Sohail Daulatzai
The way communities of color respond to the logic of antiterrorism can make us part of the problem—or the solution.
Apr 22, 2013 / Aura Bogado
Chrissy Amphlett’s Pleasure Anthem Chrissy Amphlett’s Pleasure Anthem
In 2013, a song like “I Touch Myself” is less shocking than it once was. But it is still revolutionary.
Apr 22, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Chloe Angyal
This Earth Day, Stop the Appalachian Health Crisis Caused by Mountain Top Removal This Earth Day, Stop the Appalachian Health Crisis Caused by Mountain Top Removal
Mountain top removal is wreaking havoc on Appalachia. There's a bill on the Hill to stop it.
Apr 22, 2013 / Laura Flanders
How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion
In the coming decades, two converging nightmares are likely to produce a tidal wave of unrest, rebellion, competition and conflict.
Apr 22, 2013 / Michael T. Klare
Elites May Finally Realize Austerity Isn’t the Answer Elites May Finally Realize Austerity Isn’t the Answer
After a series of events this week, is the austerity consensus unraveling?
Apr 22, 2013 / Allison Kilkenny
Boston, West, Newtown: For Whom the Bells Toll, For Whom the Alarms Ring Boston, West, Newtown: For Whom the Bells Toll, For Whom the Alarms Ring
There ought to be a response to violence besides callous indifference and total social warfare.
Apr 21, 2013 / Richard Kim
What ‘The Boston Globe’ Got Right and Why It Should Change How Papers Think What ‘The Boston Globe’ Got Right and Why It Should Change How Papers Think
The paper’s site was packed with coverage that was “Tireless. Dogged. Spirited.” And it was something else: Free.
Apr 20, 2013 / John Nichols
This Week in Nation History: The NRA and the Politics of Fear This Week in Nation History: The NRA and the Politics of Fear
The defeat of President Obama’s gun-control package indicates that lessons from history have been insufficiently learned.
Apr 20, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Why We Must Protect Next Year’s Boston Marathon From Ourselves Why We Must Protect Next Year’s Boston Marathon From Ourselves
The fight starts now to make sure the 2014 Boston Marathon isn’t a nightmare for civil liberties.
Apr 20, 2013 / Dave Zirin
The Media and the ‘Dark-Skinned’ Men from Chechnya The Media and the ‘Dark-Skinned’ Men from Chechnya
Why we're fixated on the ethnicity and religion of the Boston bomb suspects.
Apr 19, 2013 / Leslie Savan