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Ownership of WaPo by CIA Contractor Puts US Journalism in Dangerous Terrain
Norman Solomon: There is a major conflict of interest in the ownership of The Washington Post by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who holds a $600 million contract with the …
The Internet’s Own Boy: Film on Aaron Swartz Captures Late Activist’s Struggle for Online Freedom
One year ago this month, the young Internet freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer Aaron Swartz took his own life.
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US Gun Deaths
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A Typical Day
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.”