This week, the Presidential Library of Richard M. Nixon released the remaining 340 hours of tape recordings from the famous hidden office recorder, along with thousands of pages of documents. Among […]
Author: Lindsay Beyerstein
“Work It” and the “Mancession”
“Where ‘Work It’ goes from merely inaccurate to downright offensive is with the notion that Lee and Angel are so marginalized and put upon by our female-dominated society that they are forced to adopt an unconvincing drag act to get a job.”
Extend Unemployment Benefits, But Don’t Stop There
Nearly 2 million Americans will see their unemployment benefits expire in January if Congress doesn’t act to renew them. Some 430,000 of these workers lost their jobs as recently as […]
Public Sector Meltdown Hits Black Women the Hardest
Middle-class black Americans are among those hardest hit by the recession, in part because they were more likely to be employed in public sector jobs, the New York Times reported […]
The Weekly Pulse: Egg Recalls, DIY Abortion, Sex Education
This week, it’s not just eggs that are doing the salmonella infecting, women are having DIY abortions along the U.S.-Mexico border, and in Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty would rather shell out […]
Weekly Pulse: Dispersants, Insurance and Teen Botox
Is the IV Bag half-empty or half-full? Theda Skocpol, the author of a forthcoming book on President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, argues in The Nation that progressives are underrating […]
“The Weekly Pulse,” July 1-7: Health News You Should Know
Where are the Anti-Choicers at the Kagan Hearings? As Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan begins her second week of confirmation hearings, Mother Jones’ Stephanie Mencimer wonders why the anti-abortion protesters […]
“The Weekly Pulse,” June 20-26: Health News You Should Know
This week, we take a close look at Elena Kagan’s record on abortion; meanwhile, conservatives go after her for supporting transgender rights and for not supporting the mysterious fringe legal […]
“The Weekly Pulse,” June 10-16: Health News You Should Know
This week, a Christian school fires a teacher for pre-marital sex (10 points if you can guess the teacher’s gender), the FDA cracks down on over-the-counter DNA tests, Detroit’s HIV […]
“The Weekly Pulse,” June 3-9: Health News You Should Know
Each week, the Media Consortium rounds up progressive health stories from independent media into “The Weekly Pulse”. Today: charting cervical mucus, the perils of abstinence-only curriculum, teens having less sex, […]