This Week in Poverty: A Little Help for the Long-Term Unemployed? This Week in Poverty: A Little Help for the Long-Term Unemployed?
230,000 long-term unemployed workers lost their benefits on Sunday and the system is about to get a whole lot worse.
May 18, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Greg Kaufmann
Will Romney Catch up to Obama Online? Will Romney Catch up to Obama Online?
Conservatives mocked “The Life of Julia,” but it is more advanced than Romney's Website. Does that matter?
May 13, 2012 / Ben Adler
I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times
Eric reviews the Beach Boys, and Reed assesses the media's reaction to Obama's same-sex marraige “evolution.”
May 10, 2012 / Eric Alterman
Why the Friendship Segregation on HBO’s ‘Girls’ Speaks to a Bigger Problem Why the Friendship Segregation on HBO’s ‘Girls’ Speaks to a Bigger Problem
For all our talk about the multiracialism of the millennial generation, the lack of interracial social connections is more than a coincidence.
May 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Salamishah Tillet
Time to Revive the Postal Service Time to Revive the Postal Service
It’s smart politics—the PO is popular, and could be a great community aid in the digital era.
May 9, 2012 / Feature / John Nichols
Stop the Pointless Demonization of Putin Stop the Pointless Demonization of Putin
The vilifying charges levelled at Russia's president by the American media could undermine rational U.S. policy-making.
May 7, 2012 / Stephen F. Cohen
Darn Those Narcissistically Self-Absorbed, Intellectually Intolerant, Ideologically Debased Institutions! Darn Those Narcissistically Self-Absorbed, Intellectually Intolerant, Ideologically Debased Institutions!
Eric talks Rupert Murdoch and David Horowitz, and Reed wonders when the media will wake up and smell the coffee?
May 4, 2012 / Eric Alterman
Obama Sides with Civil Libertarians on Cyberwar Policy Obama Sides with Civil Libertarians on Cyberwar Policy
The most important security and surveillance legislation that you've probably never heard about.
May 3, 2012 / Ari Melber
Too Hot Not to Notice? Too Hot Not to Notice?
A planet connected by wild weather.
May 3, 2012 / Bill McKibben
Massive May Day Turnout Highlights Media’s Disconnect From Reality Massive May Day Turnout Highlights Media’s Disconnect From Reality
How the establishment media failed during their May Day coverage.
May 3, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny