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  1. The End of Journalism or a New Beginning? Newspaper newsroom, April 26, 1966. (Photo by Jerry Engel/New York Post Archives / (c) NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2016 … If our first fake news election turns out to mark the end of democracy as we know it, I think I can pretty precisely date when the end began. More than 20 years ago, I and a bunch of other Continue reading
  2. Goodbye to All That Democracy A demonstrator holds a "99%" sign as hundreds of people stage a protest in Hollywood, California on Jan. 25, 2012 against "corporate tax dodgers," namely FedEx. The demonstrators included unemployed workers, community groups, and Occupy LA activists. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … There ought to be a German word for the unpleasant feeling that comes when one’s dire predictions come true. Schmerz-Prognose: pain in premonition. Something like that feeling likely overcame Vanderbilt law professor Ganesh Sitaraman at around 10 p.m. on Nov. 8, Continue reading
  3. Why Is it so Controversial to Help Poor Mothers Afford Diapers? Jennifer Donald whose family receives money from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also know as food stamps, eats dinner with her sons David, 6, left, and Donovan, 4, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    8 Aug 2014 … Imagine you’re a single mother working a minimum-wage job with a toddler at home. When your diaper supply runs out mid-month, where can you turn to help you afford that incredibly basic necessity? Not SNAP, nor WIC, nor most other Continue reading
  4. Obama Awards Bayard Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin is shown in his Park Avenue South office in New York City, in April 1969. (AP Photo/A. Camerano)
    8 Aug 2013 … The White House announced this week that Rustin, the trailblazing civil rights activist, will be posthumously awarded the highest civilian award in the U.S. Peter Dreier writes that the timing couldn't be better. Continue reading
  5. Biden Backs the Freedom to Unionize Participants seen holding signs and marching on a picket line at the protest. Members of the Workers Assembly Against Racism gathered across from Jeff Bezos-owned Whole Foods Market in Union Square South for a nation-wide solidarity event with the unionizing Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2021 … Biden’s vocal defense of working Americans has the potential to rally struggling workers to the Democrats more firmly than they have rallied for decades. Continue reading
  6. Hell No, We Won’t Go: No Fake Net Neutrality for Racial Justice Advocates Net Neutrality protest at Google HQ
    5 May 2014 … Losing Net neutrality will only exacerbate our country's stark inequalities. Continue reading
  7. Robert Reich on Lessons Learned from Watergate Former Senator Russ Feingold speaks at a Common Cause conference to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Watergate.
    3 Mar 2013 … Michael Winship talks with the economist about lessons on government transparency that America learned, then forgot, in the years since Watergate. Continue reading
  8. Overdue Action on Climate Change Writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben prepares to speak to the Vermont legislature. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
    2 Feb 2013 … I’m pretty sure that there’s only one issue I’ll be judged on — we’ll all be judged on — in a few decades, and that’s how we dealt with the crisis of climate change. The other troubles we face are Continue reading
  9. Resignation Letter from US Foreign Service Officer Matthew P. Hoh
    10 Oct 2014 … "I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year old civil war." Continue reading
  10. We Are Out of Time: We Need to Take a Leap One of the Expedition 40 crew members onboard the International Space Station captured this oblique image of Typhoon Halong at 09:37:54 GMT on Aug. 5, 2014. The orbital outpost was at a position 225 miles above Earth over a point located at 14.2 degrees north latitude and 128.7 degrees east longitude.
    12 Dec 2015 … We need to paint a picture of what life could be like inside those scientific red lines, life within the limits imposed on us by nature. And that life needs to be not just better than a future of climate Continue reading