The Real Grand Bargain Washington Should Seek The Real Grand Bargain Washington Should Seek
The congressional "supercommittee" should consider a grand bargain that takes courage: send people to work, invest in infrastructure, levy a speculation tax, and mor...
Aug 16, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Standard & Poor’s Getting Heat for Downgrade Decision Standard & Poor’s Getting Heat for Downgrade Decision
The SEC is reportedly opening a review into Standard & Poor’s downgrade decision, and the Senate Banking Committee is undertaking a similar action.
Aug 16, 2011 / George Zornick
Raging Against the Corporate Media Machine Raging Against the Corporate Media Machine
The Nightwatchman’s Tom Morello is taking his music to the nation’s industrial heartland to support the independent media outlets that are giving voice to the fight for...
Aug 16, 2011 / Sahiba Gill
Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery
The UK rioters know full well that their elites are looters too.
Aug 16, 2011 / Naomi Klein
The Newest Avenger: Superhero to Challenge Race Politics The Newest Avenger: Superhero to Challenge Race Politics
When he makes his comeback this fall, Spiderman will ditch Peter Parker’s persona as scrawny, awkward, white, science-nerd and adopt a new one as the half-black, half-Latino ...
Aug 16, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Maria Kari
GQ’s ’25 Coolest Athletes of All Time’ has a Slight Omission: An Entire Gender GQ’s ’25 Coolest Athletes of All Time’ has a Slight Omission: An Entire Gender
GQ's list of the 25 Coolest Athletes of All Time is a study in historic ignorance.
Aug 16, 2011 / Dave Zirin
Has the Pentagon’s Post-9/11 Spending Spree Made Us Safer? Has the Pentagon’s Post-9/11 Spending Spree Made Us Safer?
The US has spent nearly $8 trillion on national security since 9/11. Do you feel any safer?
Aug 16, 2011 / Chris Hellman
FDR Went to Wisconsin to Battle ‘Economic Royalists,’ but Obama Avoids the State and the Fight FDR Went to Wisconsin to Battle ‘Economic Royalists,’ but Obama Avoids the State and the Fight
President Obama will circle around Wisconsin on his Midwest bus trip but never quite touch the labor rights battleground state.
Aug 15, 2011 / John Nichols
The Israeli Spring The Israeli Spring
Hundreds of thousands have turned out in demos all over the country, demanding a more egalitarian society. They have awakened a few ancient, dormant Jewish values.
Aug 15, 2011 / Etgar Keret
How Did Michele Bachmann Win the Iowa Straw Poll? How Did Michele Bachmann Win the Iowa Straw Poll?
Originally seen as a long-shot candidate, Bachmann's ability to successfully fuse the small government, anti-tax rhetoric of the Tea Party with the ideology of the religious right ...
Aug 15, 2011 / Press Room