Opinion

Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need New Roads

The U.S. pays a hefty toll, both socially and economically, for its road construction fetish.

David Sirota

Katniss: Heroine of the Great Recession

The Hunger Games is about overcoming poverty in a starkly unequal world. Sound familiar?

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

The Assault on Public Education

One of America's greatest achievements is being defunded and degraded by the dictates of the marketplace.

Noam Chomsky

Feminists and Immigrants

Why don't many women's rights advocates see attacks on immigrants as part of their struggle?

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Charter Schools Are Not the Silver Bullet

With all the reformist buzz, where are the results?

David Sirota

The Banality of Corporate Evil

Claiming they can't be held liable for human rights abuses, corporations reach a new height of hypocrisy.

Joel Bleifuss

The Layer Ploy

The oil and gas industries are using the oldest corporate trick in the book: Hide the real agenda behind something popular.

David Sirota

Utah’s New Abortion Waiting Game

The state's new mandatory 72-hour waiting period for an abortion is condescending, costly and just as insidious as other restrictions.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Ron Paul’s Common Sense

He's wrong on many things, but when it comes to foreign policy and civil liberties, the GOP Congressman sounds the right notes.

Leonard C. Goodman

Trumpeting the Superpower Status Quo

President Obama's 'Defense Strategic Review' is old sauce in a new bottle—and the country's worse for it.

Gregory D. Foster

A Welcome Return to Basic Standards

The meaning of Rush Limbaugh's recent apology.

David Sirota

A Broken Writ, a Kangaroo Court

Habeas corpus rights aren't intact in America. Just ask my Guantanamo detainee client.

Leonard C. Goodman

The Opposite of Snobbery

Rick Santorum thinks making college affordable for all is elitist. How else are Americans going to find good-paying jobs?

David Sirota

What Are Iran’s Intentions?

As tensions flare between Iran and the West, 120 nonaligned nations agree: the country has the right to enrich uranium.

Noam Chomsky

Paula Deen: This Little Piggy Went to Market

Why the TV cooking celebrity waited three years to announce her diabetes.

Terry J. Allen

Forgetting the Past, One Military Movie at a Time

When the entertainment industry gets in bed with the Pentagon, censorship is inevitable.

David Sirota

Newt Gingrich’s Vintage Female Problem

He doesn't seem to like older women. They ought to take revenge at the ballot box.

Susan J. Douglas

Will We Choose a Chinese Future?

Manufacturing jobs are trickling back into the U.S. economy because depressed wages are turning America into China.

David Sirota