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Khmer-American Artist Brings Cambodian Worker Struggle to Times Square H&M
The eight hour performance was a response to the brutal military crackdown of striking garment workers in Cambodia earlier this month.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
The King Center's call for nonviolence was heard in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Four Years After Citizens United: Is Campaign Cash Buying Justice in State Courts?
Four years after the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United, new research shows that outside spending has had a big impact on judicial races.
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“Like Gravity” Fast-Track Trade Sinks Jobs and Wages
With hundreds of groups across the political spectrum - from progressive environmental and consumer groups to the conservative Farm Bureau and Tea Party patriots - lined up against the …
WikiLeaks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Environment Chapter: “Toothless Public Relations Exercise“
The TPP's environment chapter has no effective enforcement mechanisms, and its investment chapter allows foreign investors to sue governments over lost prospective profits in secret arbitration panels.
Blackout: Hollywood
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may dis Black America, but Black film creatives triumphed in 2013.
Art as Research
As humanity faces enormous problems that challenge our survival, interdisciplinary approaches must include artists, whose unconventional approaches make them adept at daring and creative problem solving.
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Paul Krugman | A Virtual Currency Raises Real-World Questions
Paul Krugman: “Almost all of the Bitcoin discussion has centered on positive economics - can this actually work? And I have to say that I'm still deeply unconvinced.”
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The Golden Age of Journalism? Your Newspaper, Your Choice
It seemed distinctly like a golden age of print news, if not of journalism.
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Six Drugs Whose Dangerous Risks Were Buried So Big Pharma Could Make Money
New meds are being rushed to the market so industry can start making money even before safety has been determined.