Where Was the Pat Tillman Story on NFL Sunday? Where Was the Pat Tillman Story on NFL Sunday?
The League embraced its role on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks yet hardly mentioned the late Pat Tillman.
Sep 12, 2011 / Dave Zirin
From Attica to Pelican Bay: How To Heed the Lessons of a Prison Uprising From Attica to Pelican Bay: How To Heed the Lessons of a Prison Uprising
Forty years after Attica, the US prison population is ten times larger.
Sep 12, 2011 / Michael Ratner
Little Love for Labor Little Love for Labor
A new report reveals that high school textbooks are getting a lot wrong about the labor movement.
Sep 12, 2011 / StudentNation / Josh Eidelson
Uncle Sam Does(n’t) Want You Uncle Sam Does(n’t) Want You
From the first jobless Americans through the Great Depression to the Great Recession of the present moment, the reserve army of labor marches through time.
Sep 12, 2011 / Steve Fraser and Joshua Freeman
A Poem for the Wounded City A Poem for the Wounded City
Let us realize that the best way to honor the loss of innocent life on one day is to remember taking of innocent life on all days.
Sep 12, 2011 / Moustafa Bayoumi
After Jobs Speech, We Ask—Yet Again—’Where’s This Obama Been?’ After Jobs Speech, We Ask—Yet Again—’Where’s This Obama Been?’
We keep asking the same question about the president as if for the first time, in a sort of liberal’s version of 50 First Dates.
Sep 12, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Congress Should Mark Anniversary of the ‘War on Terror’ by Deauthorizing It Congress Should Mark Anniversary of the ‘War on Terror’ by Deauthorizing It
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, the lone vote against authorizing the perpetual “war on terror,” is leading an effort to repeal it.
Sep 11, 2011 / John Nichols
The Uses and Misuses of 9/11 The Uses and Misuses of 9/11
We must use the anniversary of 9/11 as a chance to see ourselves more clearly.
Sep 9, 2011 / Robert Klitzman
This Week: 9/11 at Ten. PLUS: Attica 40 Years Later This Week: 9/11 at Ten. PLUS: Attica 40 Years Later
The tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon provide an opportunity to reflect on the changes our country has undergone in the past dec...
Sep 9, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
After Attica: Hope For Prisons? After Attica: Hope For Prisons?
The Attica uprising paved the way for prison reforms that still make a difference today.
Sep 9, 2011 / Stephen Chinlund