Obama Doesn’t Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine Obama Doesn’t Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine
The uprisings in the Arab world are too complex to be reduced to a one-size-fits-all doctrine.
Mar 24, 2011 / Ari Berman
Imagine No Religion: It’s Coming True in Nine Countries Imagine No Religion: It’s Coming True in Nine Countries
Lennon’s song turns out to be not so utopian.
Mar 24, 2011 / Jon Wiener
Learning What Unions Have to Teach Learning What Unions Have to Teach
In a lot of the talk about attacks on labor, the focus has been on electoral politics and cash. But doing away with unions does away with one of the only forms of popular e...
Mar 23, 2011 / Laura Flanders
US Uncut’s Tax-Dodging Protests Go Global US Uncut’s Tax-Dodging Protests Go Global
There are now anti–tax dodging groups in the US, UK, France, Switzerland, Sudan, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Mexico and Australia. While the movement grows abroad,...
Mar 23, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny
Barack Obama, Oscar Romero and Structural Sin Barack Obama, Oscar Romero and Structural Sin
In El Salvador, Barack Obama pays tribute to Oscar Romero.
Mar 23, 2011 / Greg Grandin
Journalism Under Siege at Northwestern Journalism Under Siege at Northwestern
The suspension of a star professor raises very disturbing question about the future of one of the country’s foremost journalism schools.
Mar 23, 2011 / Ari Berman
Putting Some Bite Behind Elizabeth Warren Putting Some Bite Behind Elizabeth Warren
Paul Krugman called it “The War on Elizabeth Warren.” Yves Smith wrote about “The Elizabeth Warren Rorschach Test.” There's no doubt that the insightful H...
Mar 22, 2011 / Laura Flanders
Skipping Class: The Blind Side of the Duke-Michigan ‘Uncle Tom’ Debate Skipping Class: The Blind Side of the Duke-Michigan ‘Uncle Tom’ Debate
Former Michigan hoops star Jalen Rose called Duke's African American players “Uncle Toms.” Duke alum Grant Hill responded in the New York Times. Let the media firestorm...
Mar 22, 2011 / Dave Zirin
Obama Holds Up Latin America as a Model for the Middle East—If Only Obama Holds Up Latin America as a Model for the Middle East—If Only
Obama, in Chile, celebrates Latin American democracy while telling Chileans to not cling to the past.
Mar 22, 2011 / Greg Grandin
US Uncut Says Two-Tier America Has To Go US Uncut Says Two-Tier America Has To Go
Hard-working Americans are losing their homes and paying their taxes while corporate executives walk away with billions. The system has got to change.
Mar 22, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny