Scamming Students Scamming Students
At a time when public institutions face debilitating budget cuts, 86 percent of the for-profit colleges’ revenue comes from taxpayers, to the tune of $32 billion in the mos...
Sep 6, 2012 / StudentNation / Gizelle Lugo
Clinton Touts Welfare Reform. Here’s How It Failed. Clinton Touts Welfare Reform. Here’s How It Failed.
Clinton may be explainer-in-chief, but he left out the gaping hole welfare reform has made in the safety net.
Sep 6, 2012 / Bryce Covert
A Nun on the Podium Takes Apart Paul Ryan A Nun on the Podium Takes Apart Paul Ryan
One of the most powerful, and most powerfully-received speeches of the DNC was that of Sister Simone Campbell, one of the "Nuns on the Bus."
Sep 6, 2012 / John Nichols
The Racial Politics Behind the Right Wing’s Poll-Watching The Racial Politics Behind the Right Wing’s Poll-Watching
A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice spells out the hyper-partisan and racially charged impact of efforts to police the polls in November.
Sep 6, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch and Brentin Mock
Howard Dean: The Case for Obama Howard Dean: The Case for Obama
The former DNC chair predicts an Obama victory, says the future of the Supreme Court at stake.
Sep 6, 2012 / Ari Berman
A Middle-Class or Minimum-Wage Matriarchy? A Middle-Class or Minimum-Wage Matriarchy?
If women really do become this country’s breadwinners, it’ll likely mean more families slip from the middle class.
Sep 6, 2012 / Bryce Covert
Dumb and Dumber Dumb and Dumber
Obama’s “Smart Power’ foreign policy not smart at all.
Sep 6, 2012 / John Feffer
The United States Must Abandon All Support for the Syrian Rebellion The United States Must Abandon All Support for the Syrian Rebellion
The crisis in Syria veers toward regionwide sectarian explosion.
Sep 6, 2012 / Bob Dreyfuss
Bill Clinton Forms Barack Obama’s More Perfect Union Bill Clinton Forms Barack Obama’s More Perfect Union
Republicans did not want to mention their former president in Tampa. But in Charlotte Democrats followed their former president’s lead. And it could take them all the way in ...
Sep 6, 2012 / John Nichols
Elizabeth Warren to Romney: ‘Corporations Are Not People’ Elizabeth Warren to Romney: ‘Corporations Are Not People’
At the DNC, Warren offered a powerful defense of economic populism and a stinging rejoinder to Romney & co.
Sep 6, 2012 / Ari Berman