ALL POSTS BY Theresa Riley
- March 31, 2016Authors Ari Berman and Michael Waldman talk about the unequal history of voting in America, new voting rules and their concerns about what may happen later this year.
- October 5, 2015"I'm afraid I don't see how the US can helpfully respond in Afghanistan, at this point."
- September 28, 2015In her new book, the clinical psychologist looks at the impact that phones are having on our face-to-face interactions.
- September 21, 2015What is our relationship with collective humanity, and what do we owe others who are suffering? A writer ponders the refugee crisis and what he personally is prepared to do to help.
- September 17, 2015Even Ronald Reagan's former budget director thinks the tax rate hedge fund managers are paying is "really pretty shameful."
- August 26, 2015Trump is an easy target, and, more importantly, he’s profitable clickbait. But Trump is also a diversion from a deeper, uncomfortable discussion about what ails both the US and Europe.
- August 24, 2015It’s hard to imagine a Republican of national stature denouncing his party for being unfair to labor, for being too friendly with Wall Street, for failing to lead. But it happened in 1938.
- July 29, 2015A new video from the Equal Justice Initiative sets out to explain how the myth of racial difference that was created to sustain American slavery persists today. Slavery did not end in 1865, it evolved.
- July 21, 2015This week marks the fifth anniversary of Dodd-Frank, the complicated legislation designed to reform Wall Street after the financial crisis. Five years later, the debate still rages.
- April 18, 2015In this 2003 clip from NOW, two millionaires explain why they oppose a Republican campaign to eliminate the so-called "death tax."