A Congressional Push to End All Fossil Fuel Subsidies A Congressional Push to End All Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Progressive legislators are mounting the first push to completely eliminate subsidies to the oil, gas and coal industries.
May 10, 2012 / George Zornick
Students March for Labor Rights in New Haven Students March for Labor Rights in New Haven
More than a thousand students, labor union members and community activists flooded Yale’s campus and downtown New Haven in a call for the University and the city to provide...
May 10, 2012 / StudentNation / Ben Prawdzik
How Mandatory Sentencing Laws Are Sending Juveniles to Prison for Life How Mandatory Sentencing Laws Are Sending Juveniles to Prison for Life
Why is a first-world country imprisoning its children for life?
May 10, 2012 / Francis Reynolds
What If Kobe Bryant Were an Imprisoned Palestinian Soccer Player? What If Kobe Bryant Were an Imprisoned Palestinian Soccer Player?
Mahmoud Sarsak, Palestinian national team soccer player, is dying on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison. The sports world should say something.
May 10, 2012 / Dave Zirin
Why the Friendship Segregation on HBO’s ‘Girls’ Speaks to a Bigger Problem Why the Friendship Segregation on HBO’s ‘Girls’ Speaks to a Bigger Problem
For all our talk about the multiracialism of the millennial generation, the lack of interracial social connections is more than a coincidence.
May 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Salamishah Tillet
Hope and Hesitation in Obama’s Sudden Conversion Hope and Hesitation in Obama’s Sudden Conversion
Once again President Barack Obama has come tantalizingly close to being terrific.
May 10, 2012 / Robert Scheer
Help Defend the Vote Help Defend the Vote
As many as 5 million eligible voters could meet difficulties voting this Election Day due to new, imposing voter laws. Here's how to push back.
May 10, 2012 / NationAction
Protesters, Shareholders Neutralized as Bank of America CEO Collects Millions Protesters, Shareholders Neutralized as Bank of America CEO Collects Millions
When it comes to running Bank of America, shareholders don’t have much more influence than the demonstrators outside.
May 10, 2012 / Richard (R.J.) Eskow
The Energy Wars Heat Up The Energy Wars Heat Up
Six recent clashes and conflicts on a planet heading into energy overdrive.
May 10, 2012 / Michael T. Klare
Occupy the Farm Highlights Issue of Food Sovereignty Occupy the Farm Highlights Issue of Food Sovereignty
Occupy the Farm, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, occupied a farm in California to draw attention to the issue of food sovereignty.
May 10, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny