Unemployment: A New Boys Club? Unemployment: A New Boys Club?
The LA Times is calling it the "he-cession." The stark facts show that the economic crisis is hitting men particularly hard: The official male unemployment rate just spik...
Apr 6, 2009 / Betsy Reed
Black Citizenship and South Africa Black Citizenship and South Africa
Last week I delivered the W.E.B. Du Bois lectures at Harvard University. In this series of lectures I took up issues surrounding African American citizenship in the contemporary Un...
Apr 6, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Bailout Ballpark Bailout Ballpark
I spent Saturday afternoon at Citi Field, the New York Mets' newly built, 45,000-seat stadium in Flushing, Queens, and can report that it is a lovely place to take in a baseball ga...
Apr 5, 2009 / Eyal Press
The A in NATO is not for Afghanistan The A in NATO is not for Afghanistan
It's a strange idea, that the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization lies in the mountains of Afghanistan. But that's just the case that President Barack Obama an...
Apr 4, 2009 / Laura Flanders
An Iowa Backlash? An Iowa Backlash?
So now that the Iowa Supreme Court has essentially legalized gay marriage, what's next? Some right-wingers (like Iowa Congressman Steve King and William Duncan of the Marriage Law ...
Apr 3, 2009 / Richard Kim
Postcard from the Summit Postcard from the Summit
Dear Nationistas, I can't honestly say that covering the G20 from the inside was fun or that I wish you'd all been there, cooped up (if not exactly "kettled") inside the...
Apr 3, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan
Silence on Afghanistan: If Only it Were a Joke Silence on Afghanistan: If Only it Were a Joke
It's April Fool's day week and my inbox is full. My favorite prank posting so far comes from the London- based Guardian newspaper which announced (via Twitter): "Th...
Apr 2, 2009 / Laura Flanders
London Calling London Calling
In London today, Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev agreed to make cuts in their nuclear arsenals; Obama and Gordon Brown announced that the G20 were "within a few hours" o...
Apr 1, 2009 / Maria Margaronis
Netanyahu’s Fig Leaf Netanyahu’s Fig Leaf
So finally, after weeks of seamy backroom maneuvering, Benjamin Netanyahu has formed the new Israeli government, so bloated with ministries doled out as party favors that it was be...
Mar 31, 2009 / Roane Carey
Obama’s Democrat Problem Obama’s Democrat Problem
The must-read in this week's news magazines is Jonathan Chait's lacerating piece on Congressional Democrats in The New Republic, in particular the centrists and moderates who are d...
Mar 31, 2009 / Eyal Press