Racial Profiling on Trial in Arizona (Video) Racial Profiling on Trial in Arizona (Video)
Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing a class action suit that accuses him of racism in law enforcement. Is Arpaio the only problem? Another problem is the federal governmen...
Aug 7, 2012 / Laura Flanders
Omar Jadwat: Stopping Racial Profiling in Arizona Omar Jadwat: Stopping Racial Profiling in Arizona
How do you put a human face on an injustice that so often goes under the radar?
Aug 6, 2012 / Francis Reynolds
Media Help Advance Romney’s Lies About Ohio Early Voting Media Help Advance Romney’s Lies About Ohio Early Voting
The Obama campaign is not trying to restrict military voting rights in Ohio, so why do some reporters repeat that claim?
Aug 6, 2012 / George Zornick
Chris Hayes Gets Called ‘Media Elite’ by Stephen Colbert Chris Hayes Gets Called ‘Media Elite’ by Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert took Hayes to task on his show, holding up Hayes's book Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy.
Aug 6, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Press Room
John Nichols: The Weakening of Gun Laws John Nichols: The Weakening of Gun Laws
Even after the massacre at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, gun laws are likely to remain lax.
Aug 6, 2012 / Press Room
Avraham Burg, the ‘Times’ and ‘Anti-Zionism’ Avraham Burg, the ‘Times’ and ‘Anti-Zionism’
The writer lacerates Israel in an op-ed, but that doesn’t make the paper a bastion of anti-Zionism.
Aug 6, 2012 / Bob Dreyfuss
Cutbacks to Unemployment Insurance Came Long Before the Great Recession Cutbacks to Unemployment Insurance Came Long Before the Great Recession
Pulling back on support for the unemployed is just the latest side effect of state legislators’ decisions to dole out tax cuts.
Aug 6, 2012 / Bryce Covert
Oscar Pistorius and ‘the Dignity of Risk’ Oscar Pistorius and ‘the Dignity of Risk’
Pistorius has made history by becoming the first double amputee to compete at the Olympic Games.
Aug 6, 2012 / Dave Zirin
Updated: Texas Executes Man With IQ of 61 Updated: Texas Executes Man With IQ of 61
The Supreme Court waved forward the execution of Marvin Wilson despite a 2002 ban on executing people with intellectual disabilities.
Aug 6, 2012 / Liliana Segura
Shootings at Sikh Temple Test the Founding Faith of America Shootings at Sikh Temple Test the Founding Faith of America
Now is the time for President Obama to affirm the Jeffersonian ideal that no American “should suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief.”
Aug 6, 2012 / John Nichols