Perspectives
April 10, 2013In a wide-ranging audio chat, the Democracy Now! host explains why independent media is essential to democracy.
April 9, 2013Sadly, not all that much progress has been made since the Mad Men days in terms of the perennial gender pay gap.
April 8, 2013As he fights the Keystone XL pipeline, Bill McKibben hopes Congress' views on climate change "evolve" more quickly than they did on gay rights.
March 29, 2013Fifty years after the Supreme Court established a person’s right to an attorney, indigent defendants are still waiting for justice.
March 28, 2013Bryan Stevenson talks about the hard truths of America's unequal justice system in this 2012 TED talk.
March 25, 2013Journalist Chris Hedges marks the day Phil Donahue was fired by MSNBC for opposing the war in Iraq as the day that TV news became a "carnival act."
March 22, 2013In this excerpt from Sheila Bair's book, she lays out three reforms to make the regulatory system work better.
March 6, 2013Author Hedrick Smith says that, despite record stock prices and roaring corporate profits, America's economic divide is still "costing us dearly."
March 2, 2013The Waltons have given more than $1 billion to organizations and candidates who support school privatization.
February 25, 2013"What does it say about a society when its morals and ethics on the treatment of captives go into reverse?" asks writer Nick Turse.
