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165,000 Students Strike in Quebec 165,000 Students Strike in Quebec

More than 165,000 students in Quebec, Canada have been on strike for more than nine weeks in response to a Provincial government plan that would raise university tuition rates b...

Apr 16, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation

When Will the Obama Administration Take a Stand on LGBT Issues? When Will the Obama Administration Take a Stand on LGBT Issues?

Despite Obama's campaign pledge, fighting LGBT discrimination is not a strong point for the White House. 

Apr 16, 2012 / Melissa Harris-Perry

Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Hilary Rosen Debate Is a Distraction Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Hilary Rosen Debate Is a Distraction

How can presidential candidates sway women voters this election season?

Apr 16, 2012 / Press Room

On Feminism and Sadomasochistic Sex On Feminism and Sadomasochistic Sex

Katie Roiphe's Newsweek cover story ignores the fact that in every century and decade, sadomasochistic erotica has broken into the mainstream.

Apr 16, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Dana Goldstein

Scott Walker Goes All In for NRA/ALEC ‘Shoot First’ Agenda Scott Walker Goes All In for NRA/ALEC ‘Shoot First’ Agenda

Forget Mitt Romney. Wisconsin’s governor gets a hero’s welcome at the NRA convention, with a gun-talk laden speech that claims his critics “want to take me o...

Apr 16, 2012 / John Nichols

Participatory Budgeting Hits New York City

Participatory Budgeting Hits New York City Participatory Budgeting Hits New York City

Residents in four New York City districts had the chance to allocate funding for community improvement themselves. Can participatory budgeting make American democracy less lonely?

Apr 16, 2012 / Elizabeth Whitman

Raising Kids Is Work? Tell That to Women on Welfare

Raising Kids Is Work? Tell That to Women on Welfare Raising Kids Is Work? Tell That to Women on Welfare

Neither Republicans nor Democrats treat parenting as work, and thousands of poor women are living in poverty today as living proof of that fact.

Apr 16, 2012 / Laura Flanders

What the Laws of War Allow What the Laws of War Allow

Do the WikiLeaks War Logs reveal war crimes? Or do they reveal the poverty of international law?

Apr 16, 2012 / Chase Madar

How Gender Identity May Determine the Right to Vote in 2012

How Gender Identity May Determine the Right to Vote in 2012 How Gender Identity May Determine the Right to Vote in 2012

Thanks to strict, new voter ID laws that have swept through states, transgender citizens and others whose gender identities don’t match the state’s declaration of it ma...

Apr 16, 2012 / Brentin Mock

Six Rigged Rules Corporations Use to Dodge Taxes

Six Rigged Rules Corporations Use to Dodge Taxes Six Rigged Rules Corporations Use to Dodge Taxes

By manipulating offshore havens, bogus bailouts and other loopholes, US corporations have gotten their tax rates down to a forty-year low.

Apr 16, 2012 / Sarah Anderson and Scott Klinger

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