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Labor's Last Stand

Labor's Last Stand

Jane McAlevey
February 16, 2011
As the showdown in Wisconsin demonstrates, progressives must embrace the government workers’ struggle as our own—or else.
The Breakdown: Is the Federal Deficit Actually Bad for our Economy?

The Breakdown: Is the Federal Deficit Actually Bad for our Economy?

Chris Hayes
February 18, 2011
Would getting rid of the federal deficit be the silver bullet for our ailing economy? Robert Pollin explains why the standard arguments against deficit spending don't tell the whole truth.
Where Hunger Goes: On the Green Revolution

Where Hunger Goes: On the Green Revolution

David Rieff
February 17, 2011
Nick Cullather’s The Hungry World teaches us that US agricultural assistance in Asia during the cold war was a Green Counterrevolution.

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The Great Arab Revolt

Is the Middle East swinging back into a new liberal period?

Juan Cole

Posted February 17, 2011

Indignez-vous!

In the first English translation of a cri de coeur that has topped bestseller lists for months in France, the 93-year-old hero of the French Resistance urges a new generation to renew the struggle for social justice.

Stephane Hessel

Posted February 16, 2011

What Would a Liberal Glenn Beck Do?

With its job-killing, union-busting, women’s rights-crushing budget bills, is the right-wing caliphate already here?

Leslie Savan

Posted February 21, 2011

The WikiLeaks News & Views Blog for Wednesday, Day 88

Greg Mitchell

Posted on February 22, 2011

Audio

Unions Are the Core of Progressive Politics in Wisconsin

Nation in the News

Posted on February 22, 2011

9 comments

Video

Is Governor Scott Walker a Puppet?

Nation in the News

Posted on February 22, 2011

4 comments

Morocco’s Day of Dignity: An Update

Laila Lalami

Posted on February 22, 2011

Will the Arab Revolt Challenge Big Oil ?

Robert Dreyfuss

Posted on February 22, 2011

5 comments

Elizabeth Warren's Battle

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Posted on February 22, 2011

1 comment

Wisconsin's Political Crisis Is a Good Deal More Serious Than Its Fiscal Crisis

John Nichols

Posted on February 21, 2011

40 comments

The WIKILEAKS NEWS & VIEWS BLOG for Tuesday, Day 87

Greg Mitchell

Posted on February 21, 2011

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Where Hunger Goes: On the Green Revolution (Foreign Policy, History, Books and the Arts)

Nick Cullather’s The Hungry World teaches us that US agricultural assistance in Asia during the cold war was a Green Counterrevolution.

David Rieff

Being in the World: On James Miller (Books and the Arts, Philosophy)

With Examined Lives, James Miller offers a serious and readable study of the relationship between philosophy and life conduct.

Richard Wolin

Amazement in Reverse: On Martin Creed and Gabriel Orozco (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

Martin Creed and Gabriel Orozco reduce the artistic gesture to the smallest effective intervention into reality.

Barry Schwabsky

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The Betrayal of Public Workers (Labor Organizing and Activism, Economic Policy, Ethical Economics)

It’s not only bad politics for states to use budget crises to bust unions—it’s also bad economics.

Robert Pollin and Jeffrey Thompson

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Time for Outrage! (Activism)

On the American publication of Stéphane Hessel’s Indignez-vous!

Charles Glass

Egypt's Workers Rise Up (World)

Egyptians’ aspirations to democracy and social justice will depend on workers’ willingness to take to the streets.

Joel Beinin

Can Egypt's Internet Movement Be Exported? (Activism, Internet and New Media, World)

In his new book, Evgeny Morozov calls on the US government to reassess its technology sector, which is now yoked to the geopolitics of several pro-democracy uprisings.

Ari Melber

The Muslim Brotherhood in Transition

Far from being a monolith, the Ikhwan, as it is known in Arabic, is well scored by demographic and ideological fault lines.

Stephen Glain

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