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The Gray-Haired White Guys Deciding Your Reproductive Fate The Gray-Haired White Guys Deciding Your Reproductive Fate

On abortion and birth control, it's old men with red-ish neckties versus poor women of color.

Mar 3, 2011 / Sharon Lerner

10 of America’s Most Daring Young Black Activists 10 of America’s Most Daring Young Black Activists

Black History Month usually focuses on civil rights leaders but young black activists are making a difference today.

Mar 3, 2011 / StudentNation / Kay Steiger

Fighting Over Crumbs Left from Military Spending Fighting Over Crumbs Left from Military Spending

There's been a joke going around the labor protests.   It goes something like this: A union member, a CEO and a Tea Party member are sitting at a table with 12 cookies...

Mar 3, 2011 / Laura Flanders

The GOP’s Campaign to Keep Women at Home The GOP’s Campaign to Keep Women at Home

Under the guise of deficit reduction, Republicans intend to not only nix family planning services but also steer women away from the workforce with compulsory motherhood.

Mar 3, 2011 / Press Room

White House at Odds With Obama Supporters Over Wisconsin Protests White House at Odds With Obama Supporters Over Wisconsin Protests

Massive protests in Wisconsin don't fit into the White House's lame plan to "win the future".

Mar 3, 2011 / Ari Berman

So Much for Democracy: Wisconsin GOP Opens Discussion of Expelling Dem Legislators Who Oppose Anti-Union Bill So Much for Democracy: Wisconsin GOP Opens Discussion of Expelling Dem Legislators Who Oppose Anti-Union Bill

Desperate to Governor Scott Walker's proposal to strip public-sector unions of collective-bargaining rights, Republican legislative leader starts talking of expelling Democrats who...

Mar 3, 2011 / John Nichols

The GOP’s Campaign to Keep Women at Home The GOP’s Campaign to Keep Women at Home

Under the guise of deficit reduction, Republicans intend to not only nix family planning services but also steer women away from the workforce with compulsory motherhood.

Mar 3, 2011 / Press Room

Taking Sides in the Looming NFL Lockout Taking Sides in the Looming NFL Lockout

After hearing Barack Obama this afternoon, I'm more convinced than ever that every last person should side with NFL players. I don't think that was Obama's intent.

Mar 3, 2011 / Dave Zirin

Governor Scott Walker Talks to ‘David Koch’ Governor Scott Walker Talks to ‘David Koch’

Scott Walker said that he was just a bloke Who, knowing that his state was going broke, Saw saving measures that he must invoke. But then, when he obsequiously spoke To someone who he thought was David Koch (It wasn’t Koch; a guy had played a joke), The phone pals made it clear they’d like to choke Off unions’ rights, and saw this as the stroke— A stroke disguised within a budget cloak— To start the unions’ going up in smoke. No surprise there.

Mar 3, 2011 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Madisonian Democracy Madisonian Democracy

The spirit of democratic protest, so vibrant across the Middle East, has been kindled here in Middle America.

Mar 3, 2011 / The Editors

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