Voting Rights Icon Lawrence Guyot’s Death Animates a Fight Over the Future Voting Rights Icon Lawrence Guyot’s Death Animates a Fight Over the Future
Guyot's memorials prompted a Wall Street Journal op-ed writer to insist that the civil rights past is irrelevant to the Voting Rights Act’s future.
Dec 6, 2012 / Brentin Mock and Voting Rights Watch
Documents Undermine Walmart Account on Deadly Bangladesh Fire Documents Undermine Walmart Account on Deadly Bangladesh Fire
One news report reveals Walmart’s role in defeating a proposal for retail corporations to pay for safety improvements; the other shows that multiple Walmart suppliers used th...
Dec 6, 2012 / Josh Eidelson
Daphne Wysham: The World Bank Should Stop Funding Fossil Fuels Daphne Wysham: The World Bank Should Stop Funding Fossil Fuels
A World Bank report says a 4 degree centigrade warmer world would be environmentally catastrophic, so why won’t the Bank divest from fossil fuels?
Dec 6, 2012 / Press Room
Obama in Tehran? Obama in Tehran?
What remains of the initial Obama drive to reach out to Iran with an “engagement that is honed and grounded in mutual respect”?
Dec 6, 2012 / Pepe Escobar
The FCC Must Not Give Rupert Murdoch More Control Over US Media The FCC Must Not Give Rupert Murdoch More Control Over US Media
The man that proposed “Petraeus for President” threatens to dominate airwaves and headlines in major American cities.
Dec 6, 2012 / John Nichols
Pressuring Publix Pressuring Publix
The Fair Food Program is viable, it’s working and, with our help, it could eventually fulfill its enormous promise as an unprecedented collaborative model for farm-labor just...
Dec 6, 2012 / Peter Rothberg
[VIDEO] Protest Organizers Explain the Cooper Union Occupation [VIDEO] Protest Organizers Explain the Cooper Union Occupation
Student activists talk about what they're fighting for and why.
Dec 5, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation
Doing the Math Better: A Talk With Christian Parenti Doing the Math Better: A Talk With Christian Parenti
Author Christian Parenti, in conversation with NYU student Rebecca Nathanson, explains why fossil-fuel divestment campaigns—now gaining popularity on college campuses thanks ...
Dec 5, 2012 / StudentNation / Rebecca Nathanson
Yolanda Andrews: The Home Defenders League Is Fighting Back Yolanda Andrews: The Home Defenders League Is Fighting Back
For Yolanda Andrews, losing her house would mean losing everything. That's why she's standing up to predatory banking.
Dec 5, 2012 / Francis Reynolds
It’s Time to Fix the Filibuster! It’s Time to Fix the Filibuster!
Senate Dems should restore the practice to its proper function: as a tool for public dissent, rather than unchecked, covert obstruction.
Dec 5, 2012 / The Editors