Say it Loud on Opening Day: Baseball Must Move the All-Star Game from Arizona Say it Loud on Opening Day: Baseball Must Move the All-Star Game from Arizona
If the off-season proved nothing else, it’s that Arizona's political culture has only grown more toxic. On Opening Day, activists will ask the question yet again to Major Lea...
Mar 7, 2011 / Dave Zirin
The Only Constitutional Crisis In Wisconsin Is the One the Governor’s Consigliere Is Creating The Only Constitutional Crisis In Wisconsin Is the One the Governor’s Consigliere Is Creating
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Republican legislators want to arrest and punish Democrats who disagree with them. Walker’s lieutenant says the state’s on the ...
Mar 7, 2011 / John Nichols
Updates On Last Week’s Occupations at Dickinson, Milwaukee, Berkeley Updates On Last Week’s Occupations at Dickinson, Milwaukee, Berkeley
Last week’s March 2 National Day of Action saw scores of protests in more than a dozen states—including two that ended in arrests and one that ended with a bunch of p...
Mar 7, 2011 / StudentNation / Angus Johnston
Huckabee Replaces N-word With ‘Mau-Mau’ Huckabee Replaces N-word With ‘Mau-Mau’
Huckabee seemed folksy and friendly—until he started squawking that President Obama grew up in Kenya.
Mar 7, 2011 / Leslie Savan
BOOK REVIEW: Tamara Chalabi’s ‘Late for Tea at the Deer Palace’ BOOK REVIEW: Tamara Chalabi’s ‘Late for Tea at the Deer Palace’
Ahmed Chalabi’s daughter recounts the family’s saga and the ancien regime.
Mar 7, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Bob Dreyfuss
Benjamin Barber Responds Benjamin Barber Responds
A response to Jon Wiener's “Professors Paid by Qaddafi: Providing ‘Positive Public Relations.’ ”
Mar 7, 2011 / Benjamin R. Barber
Mike Huckabee: Wrong on Single Moms Mike Huckabee: Wrong on Single Moms
If Huckabee is worried about glamorizing teen pregnancy, he need look no farther than his own political party.
Mar 6, 2011 / Melissa Harris-Perry
The Student Week Ahead The Student Week Ahead
A weekly series highlighting the best in student events coast to coast.
Mar 6, 2011 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Professors Paid by Qaddafi: Providing ‘Positive Public Relations’ Professors Paid by Qaddafi: Providing ‘Positive Public Relations’
Academics’ explanations for why they took Libyan money.
Mar 5, 2011 / Jon Wiener
Tens of Thousands Cheer Michael Moore in Madison: ‘You Have Aroused a Sleeping Giant, Known as the Working People’ Tens of Thousands Cheer Michael Moore in Madison: ‘You Have Aroused a Sleeping Giant, Known as the Working People’
“This movement--we'll call it the ‘Madison Movement’ (after both the town where it was born and the president who wrote our Bill of Rights) is exploding across th...
Mar 5, 2011 / John Nichols