The Problems With BDS The Problems With BDS
If the anti-Israel boycott's losing vote at the Park Slope Food Coop really was a victory for BDS, that's a bad thing.
Mar 31, 2012 / Ben Adler
Wisconsin’s Recall Elections Are Set for June 5 Wisconsin’s Recall Elections Are Set for June 5
Volunteers gathered over 900,000 certified signatures on recall petitions—far more than the required 540,000.
Mar 31, 2012 / John Nichols
Comments of the Week: The Individual Mandate, Child Care and Trayvon Martin Comments of the Week: The Individual Mandate, Child Care and Trayvon Martin
Each week we post a run-down of the best of our reader comments with the hopes of highlighting some of your most valuable insights and encouraging more people to join the fray. Let...
Mar 30, 2012 / Sarah Arnold
Colleges Withhold Transcripts From Grads in Loan Default Colleges Withhold Transcripts From Grads in Loan Default
Already facing crippling debt and a rocky job market, students in default can't even get access to the grades they've already earned.
Mar 30, 2012 / Dave Lindorff
Organized Confusion: Votes Killed, Destroyed, Stressed Organized Confusion: Votes Killed, Destroyed, Stressed
Voter ID supporters rely on tricky language. Missouri didn’t fall for it.
Mar 30, 2012 / Brentin Mock
GOP Code Confusion GOP Code Confusion
From Romney to the Chamber of Commerce to the Supreme Court, Republicans are so distracted by their multiple phony attack lines that they’ve begun to confuse themselves. ...
Mar 30, 2012 / Leslie Savan
In Defense of Peter Beinart In Defense of Peter Beinart
Beinart's The Crisis of Zionism tells a series of important truths about Israel, the occupation and the American Jewish establishment.
Mar 30, 2012 / Dana Goldstein
Promised Lands Promised Lands
Eric Alterman on Bruce and Reed on free speech in the media.
Mar 30, 2012 / Eric Alterman
The Attack on Liberal Legitimacy The Attack on Liberal Legitimacy
The push against healthcare reform is just another chapter in the Right's ongoing attempt to deny legitimacy to liberals.
Mar 30, 2012 / Jamelle Bouie
This Week in Poverty: Fresno to Homeless People—Get Out This Week in Poverty: Fresno to Homeless People—Get Out
Fresno adopts a policy of seizing and destroying homeless residents' property and a local legal services non-profit fights back.
Mar 30, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann