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Women in Healthcare Suffer Abuse Inside and Outside the Home

Women in Healthcare Suffer Abuse Inside and Outside the Home Women in Healthcare Suffer Abuse Inside and Outside the Home

The difficult conditions that affect domestic workers also plague nurses in hospitals.

Mar 20, 2013 / Bryce Covert

Progressives’ Budget Merits a Closer Look

Progressives’ Budget Merits a Closer Look Progressives’ Budget Merits a Closer Look

While the mainstream media obsesses over Paul Ryan's extremist budget proposal, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has quietly devised an effective plan to create jobs and cut th...

Mar 19, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

‘Top of the Lake’: The Most Remarkable Depiction of Violence Against Women on TV

‘Top of the Lake’: The Most Remarkable Depiction of Violence Against Women on TV ‘Top of the Lake’: The Most Remarkable Depiction of Violence Against Women on TV

The show somehow understands things about the pervasiveness and horror of violence and sexual abuse that most police procedurals don’t.

Mar 19, 2013 / Michelle Dean

GOP Begins Throwing Up Roadblocks to the EPA Nominee

GOP Begins Throwing Up Roadblocks to the EPA Nominee GOP Begins Throwing Up Roadblocks to the EPA Nominee

The first Republican attack on Obama’s nominee to the EPA reveals the party’s fundamental beef with the agency as a whole.

Mar 19, 2013 / George Zornick

Obama in ‘Iran-Israel Week’

Obama in ‘Iran-Israel Week’ Obama in ‘Iran-Israel Week’

The White House’s placating of Netanyahu won't make talks with Iran any easier.

Mar 19, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss

It’s Time to Play… Conservative Mystery Date!

It’s Time to Play… Conservative Mystery Date! It’s Time to Play… Conservative Mystery Date!

Who'll be the lucky man (or troll) for you?

Mar 19, 2013 / Tom Tomorrow

Not Just Hillary Clinton: Why So Many Republicans Are Embracing Marriage Equality

Not Just Hillary Clinton: Why So Many Republicans Are Embracing Marriage Equality Not Just Hillary Clinton: Why So Many Republicans Are Embracing Marriage Equality

Republicans know they must turn toward supporting gay marriage—evidence of how much progress LGBT activists have made.

Mar 19, 2013 / John Nichols

Way Worse Than a Dumb War: Iraq Ten Years Later

Way Worse Than a Dumb War: Iraq Ten Years Later Way Worse Than a Dumb War: Iraq Ten Years Later

We owe the people of Iraq an enormous debt.

Mar 18, 2013 / Phyllis Bennis

Why Cyprus Matters: The Eurozone Strikes Again

Why Cyprus Matters: The Eurozone Strikes Again Why Cyprus Matters: The Eurozone Strikes Again

The plan to tax savers’ deposits in Cyprus's ailing banks will deepen political fault lines in the Eurozone—and hurt local people first.

Mar 18, 2013 / Maria Margaronis

Right and Left in Democratic Politics: The Long View

Right and Left in Democratic Politics: The Long View Right and Left in Democratic Politics: The Long View

The party has always harbored conservatives and sell-outs to big business and pro-austerity boosters. The point is not to deny them, but to beat them.

Mar 18, 2013 / Rick Perlstein

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