Liberals Are Winning the Culture War Liberals Are Winning the Culture War
It’s time that we realize the culture war is good for progressives.
Feb 13, 2012 / Chris Hayes
What We Learned From Planned Parenthood What We Learned From Planned Parenthood
Standing up for our principles and refusing to let the right-wing echo chamber define the debate—it works.
Feb 7, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Komen’s Ambiguous Apology Komen’s Ambiguous Apology
If Komen thinks it can replace its base with anti-choice activists, it will dwindle and die.
Feb 3, 2012 / Katha Pollitt
Why the Komen/Planned Parenthood Breakup—While It Lasted—Was Good for Feminism Why the Komen/Planned Parenthood Breakup—While It Lasted—Was Good for Feminism
The controversy provided a long-overdue spotlight on the difference between feminism as a brand and feminism as a political movement.
Feb 3, 2012 / Amy Schiller
The Komen Foundation Pinkwashes Anti-choicers, Punks Planned Parenthood The Komen Foundation Pinkwashes Anti-choicers, Punks Planned Parenthood
While you were shaking your head over pink Bibles and stem-cell futurology, Komen was staffing up with anti-choice executives.
Feb 1, 2012 / Katha Pollitt
A Spoonful of Sugar: On the Affordable Care Act A Spoonful of Sugar: On the Affordable Care Act
Obama and America's hundred-year struggle over healthcare reform.
Jan 25, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Bernard Avishai
Can Long Beach Prove that Bikes Are Good for Business? Can Long Beach Prove that Bikes Are Good for Business?
Bucking its reputation as a city addicted to the automobile, Long Beach, California, establishes the nation’s first officially “bike-friendly” business districts.
Jan 11, 2012 / Mark Hertsgaard
Disgrace: On Marc Hauser Disgrace: On Marc Hauser
A case of scientific misconduct at Harvard.
Dec 21, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Charles Gross
Politifact Peddles Falsehood About Ryan Plan to Privatize Medicare Politifact Peddles Falsehood About Ryan Plan to Privatize Medicare
Politifact declared Democrats’ complaint that Republicans voted to end Medicare the biggest lie of the year. But the Ryan budget the House GOP passed would end Medicare. ...
Dec 20, 2011 / Ben Adler
Is Ron Wyden Trying to Elect Mitt Romney? Is Ron Wyden Trying to Elect Mitt Romney?
The Democratic Senator from Oregon has endorsed Paul Ryan's plan to privatize Medicare, taking away the Democrats’ best issue in 2012.
Dec 15, 2011 / Ben Adler