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