Battling Feminist Burnout Battling Feminist Burnout
Here’s how to stay up in a downer world.
Mar 1, 2013 / Jessica Valenti
The CIA Is Training Syria’s Rebels: Uh-Oh, Says a Top Iraqi Leader The CIA Is Training Syria’s Rebels: Uh-Oh, Says a Top Iraqi Leader
The covert program surfaced in a piece about John Kerry’s announcement of increased aid to the fighters.
Mar 1, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
This Week in Poverty: Gangnam-Style Counting With Senator Jeff Sessions This Week in Poverty: Gangnam-Style Counting With Senator Jeff Sessions
Republican Senator Jeff Sessions uses some very creative math to prove that people in poverty have incomes that are similar to the middle class.
Mar 1, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
Why Does Congress’s Only Cherokee Member Keep Voting Against VAWA? Why Does Congress’s Only Cherokee Member Keep Voting Against VAWA?
Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) voted against both versions of VAWA reauthorization. If only he would explain why.
Mar 1, 2013 / Aura Bogado
Gotta Sequester? Or Was Cheney Right That ‘Deficits Don’t Matter’? Gotta Sequester? Or Was Cheney Right That ‘Deficits Don’t Matter’?
There is a lot of hypocrisy in the sudden Republican obsession with deficits and debt.
Mar 1, 2013 / John Nichols
The Fight Over Seth MacFarlane Is a Study in Self-Confidence The Fight Over Seth MacFarlane Is a Study in Self-Confidence
Too often, the defenders of sexism and racism, at the Oscars or in this world, manage to exhaust others right out of the conversation.
Feb 28, 2013 / Michelle Dean
A Fierce Green Planet A Fierce Green Planet
The argument that we’re living in a new golden age of documentaries will be significantly furthered tomorrow with the release of A Fierce Green Fire, the first major cinemati...
Feb 28, 2013 / Peter Rothberg
Financial Transactions Tax Introduced Again—Can It Pass This Time? Financial Transactions Tax Introduced Again—Can It Pass This Time?
The tariff on transactions would cost the average investor little while deterring risky high-volume trading—and Jack Lew seems open to the idea.
Feb 28, 2013 / George Zornick
My Favorite Things: God Bless America Edition My Favorite Things: God Bless America Edition
A list of some of the most memorable cultural and sports moments in this country.
Feb 28, 2013 / Eric Alterman
The Folly of Arming Syria’s Rebels The Folly of Arming Syria’s Rebels
In Washington, the drumbeat is intensifying for yet another Middle East civil war.
Feb 28, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss