By Travis Pillow

This morning the front page of the New York Times’ business section proclaimed a hard-won victory for United Students Against Sweatshops – the national group that started the Worker Rights Consortium, which I described in my letter to Tim Tebow in our most recent issue. Russell Athletic, a major maker of licensed collegiate apparel, reached [...]

By Lydia Fiser

The New York Times called the House of Representative’s passing of the Affordable Health Care for America Act a “landmark” in achieving affordable universal health care. While the Act may be a landmark, it’s not in the sense that the New York Times claims. Instead, it’s a landmark statement of who our government is committed [...]

By Jessica Newman

Today, Nov. 9, marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event many deem to be the ultimate triumph of democracy, like Ross Douthat of the New York Times. In fact, media outlets all over the world celebrated the anniversary today as an event that brought “democracy” to the Eastern bloc. [...]

By Travis Pillow

I’m excited that one of my favorite novelists – Jonathan Safran Foer – has a new book out in which his own struggle to break free of the factory farm takes the form of a personal narrative carries echoes many of the themes of his earlier work while addressing perhaps the most important issue of [...]

By Travis Pillow

The writers of this month’s manifesto are holding a series of events on human rights starting tomorrow. There’s been a lot of talk in media lately about President Obama trying to learn the lessons from Vietnam (nevermind how they tend to describe that disastrous war as a “success”). Tomorrow evening, Fine Print blogger Scott Camil, [...]

By Jessica Newman

It’s no secret that the journalism we know today is a lot different from the journalism we knew 5 years ago. Since its creation, media has always been in a constant state of flux, from handwritten pamphlets to the printing press to radio to television to the Web. So here I am, embracing the latest [...]