Irin Carmon writes for Salon: “Even if the Supreme Court does decide to punt on the Proposition 8 case, today’s oral arguments again made something clear: Defenders of the marriage equality ban are very, very anxious about gender roles. And a majority of…
Dean Baker writes for The Huffington Post: “There are few areas where the corruption of the national media is more apparent than in its treatment of Social Security. Most of the elite media have made it clear in both their opinion and news pages that the…
Tim Murphy writes for Mother Jones: “But although NOM’s rally features the loud music and chants of a pep rally (also: bagpipes, grown men dressed like Buckingham palace guards, and dudes wearing red sashes), it has the feeling of something a bit differe…
From Rebecca Eisenberg at Upworthy: “You’ve probably heard, or at least read, the story of Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl, education activist, and youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize nominee who recently survived an assassination attempt by…
Ann Jones writes in The Nation: “No, that invader isn’t an American soldier leading a night raid on an Afghan village, nor is the enemy an anonymous Afghan householder. This combat warrior is just a guy in Ohio named Shane. He’s doing what so many men fi…
