The latest women’s movement story from the New York Times Magazine has a farming theme. “The Femivore’s Dilemma” by Peggy Orenstein describes how somewhere between the workforce and the housework some women are raising chickens, growing vegetables, raising chicks. tending gardens. Sounds lovely? Maybe. but As Orenstein unpacks the story, it’s clear that the only women [...]

No more excuses. This week, a variety of wavering House Democrats that they wouldn’t make up their minds on health care reform until they got the final score on the package from the Congressional Budget Office. It took longer than expected, but the CBO has weighed in. Democrats looking for an encouraging score [...]

On Wednesday’s Daily Show, Stewart took the GOP (or the “TeaPartyFoxPublicans,” as he’s come to call them) to task for its unabashed and error-ridden scandal mongering. But he also targeted Dems, whose health care moves have come to resemble a drug czar’s business plan. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Health-Con1 – [...]

By Sam Fulwood III and Henry Fernandez, Senior Fellows at Center for American Progress, Race-Talk contributors At the heart of this specious challenge to fairness for all U.S. workers is the idea that blacks resent undocumented Latino immigrants for taking away jobs that would rightfully belong to them. Restrictionist opponents to immigration reform seize on this [...]

Written by Jodi Jacobson, editor of RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. In two interviews yesterday, Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak revealed a great deal about himself, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, politics and the internal workings of our “pro-choice” Democratic party. First, in what shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, [...]

In 1892, an editorial in the Chicago Tribune opined: “Doubtless the end of the coal, at least as an article of a mighty commerce, will arrive within a period brief in comparison with the ages of human existence… How long can the earth sustain life?” A century later, a vibrant movement across the neighborhoods of Chicago [...]

This post was originally published on Thinks Progress. Last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) stirred faux outrage over the House Democrats’ plan to use a “self-executing rule” to pass the Senate health care reform bill, saying Americans would “have standing to sue against” the bill and that it’s “breathtakingly unconstitutional.” The claim has now turned [...]

At an anti health reform rally in Columbus yesterday, Tea Partiers demonstrated why they should be taken seriously as a populist movement by heckling a man who carried a sign claiming he suffers from Parkinsons. A video shows the man sitting down in front of a group of protesters. “If you’re looking for a handout, you’re [...]

As food consciousness hits Americans—and wealthy Global Northerners everywhere—it’s not just cooking that has seen a resurgence. Farming is experiencing a new cachet that it hasn’t seen in ages. Dirt is cool, rather like those ill-fitting thrift-store clothes—it proves that you don’t care about social status or glossy magazines… right? Raising some tomatoes in the backyard [...]

It was less than one year ago when acting U.S. DEA administrator Michelle Leonhart publicly declared that the escalating violence on the U.S./Mexico border should be viewed as a sign of the “success” of America’s drug war strategies. “Our view is that the violence we have been seeing is a signpost of the success our very [...]