Willing to Reconsider Willing to Reconsider
OK, so I've been a feminist against marriage for as long as I can remember but I will if you will.
Jan 13, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Terror in Uganda Terror in Uganda
Uganda is a country where homosexuality is already illegal, where violent attacks are common and where rape is used to 'cure' people of their sexual orientation. Now, a shocking ne...
Jan 12, 2010 / Peter Rothberg
Immigrant Deaths Covered Up Immigrant Deaths Covered Up
Monday, January 11, marks eight years since the Bush administration transferred the first prisoners to the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. Ever since, human right...
Jan 12, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Mark McGwire’s Pound of Flesh Mark McGwire’s Pound of Flesh
In the ten years Brian Williams has anchored the NBC Nightly News, he has never once launched a broadcast by lambasting a public figure. Henry Paulson after the economic collapse? ...
Jan 12, 2010 / Dave Zirin
On Reid and Racism On Reid and Racism
Joe Biden once remarked that Barack Obama was "clean" and "articulate." He is now Vice President. During the Democratic primaries Hillary Clinton invoked Rober...
Jan 11, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Breaking News: Harry Reid Sees Black People Breaking News: Harry Reid Sees Black People
Stop the presses! Harry Reid said the word "Negro" and, worse, suggested that white people are less afraid of light-skinned blacks who don't use double negatives. But by ...
Jan 11, 2010 / Kai Wright
Journalism in 10: Jane Mayer on Protecting Sources Journalism in 10: Jane Mayer on Protecting Sources
The New Yorker's Jane Mayer reflects on the perils of reporting in a post-9/11 world.
Jan 8, 2010 / The Nation Video
Blackwater Injustice Blackwater Injustice
A federal judge has dismissed all charges against the five Blackwater operatives accused of gunning down fourteen innocent Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007.
Jan 7, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
Looting Social Security Looting Social Security
The Washington Post has run a "news" article about deficit reduction produced by The Fiscal Times, an outfit backed by Social Security demonizer Pete Peterson.
Jan 7, 2010 / William Greider
The Decade for Women: Forward, Backward, Sideways? The Decade for Women: Forward, Backward, Sideways?
Feminist highs and lows of the first decade of the 2000s.
Jan 7, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt