When Illegal Doesn’t Matter: US Uncut’s National Day Of Protest When Illegal Doesn’t Matter: US Uncut’s National Day Of Protest
Today marked US Uncut’s second big nationwide protest. Coast-to-coast, more than 40 cities joined in a day of action protesting the tax dodging practices of massive corporati...
Mar 26, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny
The Price of Art The Price of Art
Over 130 internationally renowned artists have boycotted the new Guggenheim Museum in the United Arab Emirates, in an attempt to pressure Abu Dhabi officials to protect basic right...
Mar 25, 2011 / Carmel DeAmicis
Video: As Michele Bachmann Toys With Presidential Bid, Remember Her Call for McCarthyism Video: As Michele Bachmann Toys With Presidential Bid, Remember Her Call for McCarthyism
In 2008 on Hardball, Bachmann called on the media to seek out members of Congress who are “anti-American.” And Katrina vanden Heuvel talked back.
Mar 25, 2011 / The Nation
Elizabeth Taylor, Al Jazeera and the Raid on Entebbe Elizabeth Taylor, Al Jazeera and the Raid on Entebbe
How a Hollywood star offered herself in a hostage trade.
Mar 25, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
This Week: The Ashes of Triangle Fire. PLUS: GOP’s Despicable Politics This Week: The Ashes of Triangle Fire. PLUS: GOP’s Despicable Politics
This week, we commenorate the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire with an essay by Joshua Freeman, AFL-CIO's Tula Connell and a must see slideshow. I wei...
Mar 25, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Wisconsin GOP Seeks to Silence a Distinguished Dissenter. McCarthyism is Back. Wisconsin GOP Seeks to Silence a Distinguished Dissenter. McCarthyism is Back.
When Bill Cronon, a University of Wisconsin professor, started raising questions about whether Governor Scott Walker’s attacks on labor unions might have been organized ...
Mar 25, 2011 / John Nichols
The Breakdown: Is the US Military Action in Libya Unconstitutional? The Breakdown: Is the US Military Action in Libya Unconstitutional?
Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have started questioning the constitutionality of Obama's announcement that the USÂ will pursue military operations in Libya.
Mar 25, 2011 / Chris Hayes
‘If I Turn Traitor…’ ‘If I Turn Traitor…’
Eric Alterman reviews music and Reed Richardson parses the ethics of sports journalism.
Mar 25, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
US Uncut: It’s Not About Budgets, it’s About Revenue US Uncut: It’s Not About Budgets, it’s About Revenue
US Uncut wants Americans to stop fighting each other and focus on the real enemy: billion-dollar corporate thieves dodging taxation.
Mar 25, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny
Honoring Leonard Weinglass Honoring Leonard Weinglass
Weinglass devoted his legal career to making human rights more sacred than corporate profit.
Mar 25, 2011 / The Nation