May Day 2012: Love in a Hopeless Place? May Day 2012: Love in a Hopeless Place?
May Day in New York was chaotic, creative and diffuse. Was it a glimpse of what’s to come? Or a the wreckage of what’s left on the left?
May 3, 2012 / Laura Flanders
May Day Protests in Europe May Day Protests in Europe
Across Europe May Day brought out demonstrators, strikers and even some picnickers marking the labor movement celebration and demanding an end to the austerity agenda sweeping th...
May 2, 2012 / Peter Rothberg
NFL Player Junior Seau Takes His Own Life NFL Player Junior Seau Takes His Own Life
Junior Seau is the NFL’s second suicide in less than two weeks.
May 2, 2012 / Dave Zirin
The Recovery Is Really Good at Creating Bad Jobs The Recovery Is Really Good at Creating Bad Jobs
An economic rebound means little to workers forced into precarious work.
May 2, 2012 / Bryce Covert
DeMarco Punts on Principal Reduction DeMarco Punts on Principal Reduction
It appears increasingly unlikely there will be help for homeowners under DeMarco’s leadership.
May 2, 2012 / George Zornick
Tens of Thousands March in Oakland, New York for May Day Tens of Thousands March in Oakland, New York for May Day
Occupy Wall Street, unions and immigrants rights groups collaborated in massive protests around the world on Tuesday, though no one would know that from the establishment media.
May 2, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny
The Beltway Continues to Ignore GOP Radicalism The Beltway Continues to Ignore GOP Radicalism
Two respected scholars sound the alarm and receive a dismissive response.
May 2, 2012 / Jamelle Bouie
Scott Walker’s Billionaire Boys Club: Big Money Backs Anti-Labor Agenda Scott Walker’s Billionaire Boys Club: Big Money Backs Anti-Labor Agenda
Walker’s collecting huge checks—$250,000 from Sheldon Adelson—to try to beat a people-powered recall campaign.
May 2, 2012 / John Nichols
Free Pussy Riot Free Pussy Riot
A feminist punk band rocks Russian politics and the Orthodox Church.
May 2, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Gay Romney Aide Resigns Gay Romney Aide Resigns
Mitt's new foreign policy spokesman, Richard Grenell, suddenly resigned Tuesday afternoon. Was he forced out by anti-gay social conservatives?
May 1, 2012 / Ben Adler