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For Tennessee Lawmakers, Punishing Pregnant Women Is More Important Than Protecting Fetal Life

For Tennessee Lawmakers, Punishing Pregnant Women Is More Important Than Protecting Fetal Life For Tennessee Lawmakers, Punishing Pregnant Women Is More Important Than Protecting Fetal Life

Some anti-abortion activists are agreeing with feminists: Tennessee’s new law criminalizing pregnant women is awful. So why did it pass?

Apr 30, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg

Iraq Votes, but Its Nightmare Continues

Iraq Votes, but Its Nightmare Continues Iraq Votes, but Its Nightmare Continues

It will take generations for Iraq to recover from the 2003 catastrophe ignited by the Bush administration.

Apr 30, 2014 / Bob Dreyfuss

How a Fatal Disaster at Mt. Everest Has Turned Into a Full-Blown Labor Struggle

How a Fatal Disaster at Mt. Everest Has Turned Into a Full-Blown Labor Struggle How a Fatal Disaster at Mt. Everest Has Turned Into a Full-Blown Labor Struggle

The sherpas who perform incredibly dangerous work on the mountain have called off this year’s climbing season.

Apr 30, 2014 / Michelle Chen

Selling Outrage: How the Media’s Lazy Commodification of Anger Devalues Our Democracy

Selling Outrage: How the Media’s Lazy Commodification of Anger Devalues Our Democracy Selling Outrage: How the Media’s Lazy Commodification of Anger Devalues Our Democracy

Eric and Danny with the latest reviews, and Reed on the media. 

Apr 30, 2014 / Eric Alterman, Danny Goldberg, and Reed Richardson

What Helped Bring Donald Sterling Down? A Threatened Strike Against Racism

What Helped Bring Donald Sterling Down? A Threatened Strike Against Racism What Helped Bring Donald Sterling Down? A Threatened Strike Against Racism

As any union organizer will tell you, a threatened strike is a tactic in and of itself.

Apr 30, 2014 / Dave Zirin

Why It Matters That Women Do Most of the Housework

Why It Matters That Women Do Most of the Housework Why It Matters That Women Do Most of the Housework

There’s no biological explanation for why women end up doing more housework, so it must stem from societal forces.

Apr 30, 2014 / Bryce Covert

Inmate Dies of Heart Attack After Botched Execution, Oklahoma Postpones Another

Inmate Dies of Heart Attack After Botched Execution, Oklahoma Postpones Another Inmate Dies of Heart Attack After Botched Execution, Oklahoma Postpones Another

Clayton D. Lockett reacted “violently” to an untested combination of drugs Tuesday before succumbing to a heart attack.

Apr 30, 2014 / Steven Hsieh

Tim Carpenter’s Politics of Radical Inclusion: In the Streets and in the Polling Booths

Tim Carpenter’s Politics of Radical Inclusion: In the Streets and in the Polling Booths Tim Carpenter’s Politics of Radical Inclusion: In the Streets and in the Polling Booths

A brilliant organizer, dead too soon, forged an inside-outside strategy that merged movement energy and electoral politics.

Apr 30, 2014 / John Nichols

Climate Change Will Make Fargo As Hot As Phoenix

Climate Change Will Make Fargo As Hot As Phoenix Climate Change Will Make Fargo As Hot As Phoenix

Nation Editor-at-Large and MSNBC host Chris Hayes appeared on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show to talk climate, politics and his recent bad luck. 

Apr 29, 2014 / Chris Hayes

Federal Court Strikes Down Discriminatory Wisconsin Voter ID Law

Federal Court Strikes Down Discriminatory Wisconsin Voter ID Law Federal Court Strikes Down Discriminatory Wisconsin Voter ID Law

The same day Donald Sterling is banned from the NBA, a judge finds Wisconsin’s voter ID law discriminates against black and Hispanic voters.

Apr 29, 2014 / Ari Berman

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