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Attack of the Tweeting Women
In Episode 5, Sorkin tackles topics (feminism, the Internet) that The Newsroom should never, ever touch.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Freedom in the Cloud
Assange, Manning and Snowden are the new heroes of the era of digitalized control.
Slavoj Žižek
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Opting for Free Time
Something’s missing from the work/life balance debate.
Sarah Jaffe
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Is There Detroit After Bankruptcy?
Why shock therapy won't reverse the Motor City's decline.
Ryan Felton
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The Free Market Backfires
What happens when the private insurance industry contradicts right-wing talking points?
David Sirota
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The Next Keystone XL?
With TransCanada's tar sands megaproject, a new front opens in North America's pipeline wars.
Cole Stangler
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Why Hillary Terrifies the GOP
Good old-fashioned misogyny just doesn't play the way it used to.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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A Half Century After Detroit Uprising, City Still Stranded by Capitalism and Federal Government
How federal policy and Big Auto drove black blight and white flight.
Marilyn Katz
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Undocumented Immigrants Win Access to Organ Transplant Waitlists, and a Shot at Life
14 Chicago patients in critical need of transplants went on a hunger strike to change hospital policy.
Rebecca Burns
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The GOP’s Summer Break Plans
The Republican guide to secret meetings during Congress's five-week sojourn.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
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Rebels With a Far-Right Cause
A new generation of libertarians is being groomed for Republican leadership.
Cole Stangler
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No Papers, No Fear
The 'Dream 9' represent a radical strand of the immigration movement that's fed up with compromise.
Michelle Chen
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Making the ‘Report Abuse’ Option Meaningful
Jane Austen, the British 10-pound note and a Twitter sh*tstorm.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Who Are You Calling Sexist?
This week on The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin helpfully shows us what a real sexist looks like.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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The Illusion of Juror Sophistication
Like most people on juries, the six jurors thrown into the Zimmerman trial were totally unprepared.
Richard Baker
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Is Edward J. Snowden Aboard This Plane?
America's imperial power is on the decline, to the world's benefit.
Noam Chomsky
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Pennies at the Register, Dollars in the Paycheck
Would higher wages really be 'devastating' for individual consumers?
David Sirota
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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 2: The Dangers of Red-Baiting
We meet the prison chef, and a power struggle ensues.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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The Force Behind Bills To Lower Wages and Suppress Workers’ Rights? You Guessed It: ALEC
The right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council has modeled legislation to strip workers of their rights nationwide.
Mary Bottari and Rebekah Wilce
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Clueless
The Newsroom recap: The 'mission to civilize' makes a comeback. Cover your ears.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Teach for America’s Mission to Displace Rank-and-File Educators in Chicago
Why are thousands of experienced educators being replaced by new college graduates?
Kenzo Shibata
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Why Did 83 Democrats Vote to Continue NSA Surveillance?
This time, we can't blame the Republicans.
Cole Stangler
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Helen Thomas: First and Foremost
The White House reporter smashed the glass ceiling for women and set the bar for tenacity.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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‘Bargain’ on Immigration Would Feed Prison Profits
The private prison industry stands to gain millions from the Senate's reform plan.
Michelle Chen
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