All Views Articles for 2015-04-03
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Ruth Conniff #BoycottIndiana Turns Up the Heat The threat of a nationwide boycott on the eve of the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament sent Republicans in Indiana scrambling to amend their anti-LGBT Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Now... Read more |
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Ali Gharib The Iran Agreement Is Historic. Will Congress Destroy It? Just wait for the Congressional freakout that comes if world powers and Iran sign a comprehensive nuclear accord this summer. Negotiations advanced on Thursday with a framework agreement between Iran... Read more |
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Robert Fisk Yemen Crisis: What Will Saudi Arabia Do When – Not If – Things Go Wrong in Their War with the Shia Houthi Rebels? They might ask the Pakistanis to send part of their vast army into the cauldron - but that would not be adding oil to the fire. It would be adding fire to the oil Read more |
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Harold Meyerson Workers — Not Employers — Are the Real Wage Movers and Shakers “We’re too big and complicated a system to do anything in reaction to a particular group or something happening,” Karen King, who has the wonderful title of “chief people officer” at McDonald’s, said... Read more |
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Alyssa Peterson Minimum Wage Worker Firing Reveals Why We Need More Poverty Reporting On February 17 th , Washington Post reporter Chico Harlan wrote a piece that analyzed the human impact of the 25-cent minimum wage increase in Arkansas. The article prominently featured the... Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Boycott Indiana—for Imprisoning a Woman Who Miscarried Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) has justifiably provoked outrage nationwide for its apparent intent to legalize anti-gay discrimination by private businesses. But another... Read more |
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Steve Fraser Plutocracy The First Time Around Revisiting the Great Upheaval and the First Gilded Age Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis Iran Deal: A Game-Changer for the Middle East Negotiators in Switzerland just won a huge victory for diplomacy over war. Now we've got to protect it. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Resistance To Standardized Testing Not Going Away Does populist outrage matter anymore? Anyone following the growing resistance to unpopular standardized testing in the nation’s public schools may soon see. Thousands of teachers, parents, students,... Read more |
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Dipti Bhatnagar, Susann Scherbarth World Leaders Lack Ambition to Tackle Climate Crisis World governments expect to agree to a new global treaty to combat climate change in Paris in December. As the catastrophic impacts of climate change become more evident, so too escalates the urgency... Read more |
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Scott Ritter A Good Deal, a Long Time Coming The deal recently concluded between Iran and the so-called "P-5 plus 1" nations (the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany) is designed to prevent Iran from being able to... Read more |
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Trita Parsi For Better US-Iran Relations, the Iranian People Are the Key American neoconservatives, Israeli hawks, and Arab dictators alike are haunted by the same nightmare: After a nuclear deal, the US and Iran will gravitate toward an unspoken alliance, after which the... Read more |
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Lydia Alpízar Durán Challenging the Power of the One Percent When you are faced with the task of moving an object but find it is too heavy to lift, what is your immediate and most natural response? You ask someone to help you lift it. And it makes all the... Read more |
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Nafeez Ahmed The Pentagon Plan to ‘Divide and Rule’ the Muslim World Yemen is the latest casualty of a neoconservative strategy commissioned by the US Army to ‘capitalise on Sunni-Shia conflict’ in the Middle East - the goal is nothing short of ‘Western dominance’ Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Sing Another Song Here in Lexington federal prison's Atwood Hall, squinting through the front doorway, I spotted a rust-red horse swiftly cantering across a nearby field. The setting sun cast a glow across the grasses... Read more |