Phone home, Mr. President.
Laurence Tribe, the legendary constitutional law professor, is really ticked off with you. That should be some kind of wake up call. Because he was your constitutional law professor. One of the key backers of your 2008 presidential campaign. Even joined your justice department as a legal adviser in 2010—briefly.
View the full segment above, or at GRITtv with Laura Flanders.
The legendary anti-poverty activist, who is leading a nationwide teach-in on the corporate-fueled austerity movement with Cornel West today, talks about the current political moment — and what can be done to reclaim government for the people.
Read the full story at The American Prospect.
In this time of corporate-led anti-union and anti-regulation fervor, we need to hold firm when it comes to defending workers’ rights.
Drastic cuts to health funding won’t touch the deficit, but women will suffer most.
The Thomases’ active role in moving the country rightward should be a scandal, an outrage, and a fixed feature in our media. But it’s not.
A new initiative provides real numbers, for the first time, on how transgender Americans are discriminated against — and they’re startling.
The Family, the secretive organization of evangelicals tied to extremist anti-gay legislation in Uganda, is refusing to pressure Ugandan lawmakers to drop the bill.
For years one of the Koch brothers’ greatest achievements was the fact that no one knew who they were or what influence they had. The counter-demonstration next to their secret billionaires’ meeting in Palm Springs on Sunday proves all that has changed.
Gay Ugandan activist David Kato was beaten to death earlier this week. Now it’s Brenda Namigadde, a Ugandan lesbian whose immigration status in Britain is unresolved, with a bull’s-eye on her back.
Ugandan activist David Kato was a leading voice against the country’s notorious “Anti-Homosexuality Bill”—which was written with the help of three American evangelicals. Now Kato has been found murdered.