May 2012
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Since 1998 Alabama has criminalized the sale and distribution of “any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for anything of pecuniary value.”
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“We need to stop acting as though we’re getting ready for war and we need to...”
– —Dennis Kucinich, in an interview with Nation reporter George Zornick
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“”Paul Ryan points to the existence of poverty as proof that antipoverty...”
– —This Week in Poverty blogger Greg Kaufmann
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Viewers of Fox News are the least informed of all...
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“The fast and furious online action that eventually led to Komen’s turnaround was...”
– —Jessica Valenti on the young feminists who have been here all along
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“The problem with America isn’t what people do in their bedrooms but what...”
– —Robert Reich
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“Eduardo Saverin exemplifies the spoiled 1 percenter who erodes the fabric of the...”
– —Ilyse Hogue on the Facebook co-founder’s decision to renounce his US citizenship to avoid paying taxes on his Facebook windfall—a move that could cost the US Treasury as much as $600 million.
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“Hello one percent! More power to ya!”
– Sarah Palin today at a hedge fund conference in Las Vegas.
CLASSIC
(via think-progress)
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105 million Americans—over one in three—live on... →
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Approximately 470 prisoners in Pennsylvania are... →
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What austerity looks like, in three graphs →
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Could Obama's "new" same-sex marriage position...
Today’s announcement was certainly welcome news, but it’s ushered in new speculation on the potential political fallout:
There’s already lots of chatter about how this might cost him the election or at least damage his chances in a few swing states, like North Carolina, which overwhelmingly passed an anti-gay marriage amendment yesterday.
Nation Senior Editor Richard Kim explains...
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Thousands are protesting at the Bank of America...
Thousands have turned out to protest at the BoA shareholders meeting today, following demonstrations in New York yesterday outside BoA’s Manhattan offices. Many protesters explain that they’ve been personally impacted by the bank’s practices:
My house was foreclosed by Bank of America after I lost my job… It’s not a joke to live without a job. My family depends on...
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“When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you’re told that...”
– —Jessica Valenti on MCA’s feminist legacy
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WatchMaurice Sendak’s Cultural Influence
His appearance on The Colbert Report last year shows what a treasure he was. On topics from sex to censorship to celebrity to Newt Gingrich, his cutting, common-sense sensibility makes clear why his work was so wildly popular and enduring. RIP.
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Noam Chomsky on Occupy and the history of the US...
Brand new from Noam Chomsky:
The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead—because victory won’t come quickly—it could prove a significant moment in American history.
Read the rest here.
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“If a survivor of domestic violence uses a gun to warn an attacker, not kill him,...”
– —Melissa Harris-Perry on the case of Marissa Alexander, a mother of three who fired a warning shot into her kitchen ceiling trying to keep her abusive husband away. No one was hurt, but she now faces up to twenty years in prison.
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Three Poems by Peter Cole
A new installment of LyricNation is published the first Monday of each month. This month Peter Cole reads “Leviticus Again,” first published in the May 21, 2012 issue of The Nation, “Of Time and Intensity” and “Tutelary.” Listen to them exclusively at The Nation.
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“It’s not a flash in the pan or a particular political moment—it’s a central part...”
– Jessica Valenti on the War on Women
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Five overlooked battles in the War on Women
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