Nathan Robinson

As the New York Times tells it, the firing of 16 Pomona College dining hall staff over alleged documentation violations appears to be a story about the harsh policies facing America's undocumented workers. But it is also a story about labor, and the growing difficulty of organizing for...

Even as most of the Occupy movement's tent cities have been flattened and ravaged across the country, in New Haven, Conn., where poverty and unemployment rates far exceed the national average, occupiers are standing firm in a sizable and tenacious encampment. Occupy New Haven (ONH) began in solidarity...

Some of us with an interest in seeing media and political figures brutally and ceaselessly mocked on television have long wondered when Britain, supposedly the world's #1 exporter of cutting-edge humorous programming, was going to find its match for our own Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Britain, after all, is...

On Friday, The New York Times reported that the State of New York is planning to massacre approximately 170,000 Canada geese, as part of a strategy to increase the safety of passenger aircraft. The Times quotes the Department of Agriculture as approving of the plan, with an official stating...

The first question the publishing of Charles Ogletree's new book, The Presumption of Guilt (Palgrave Macmillan, 256 pages, $25.00), raises is a cynical one. One year later, does the Henry Louis Gates arrest really mean anything, or does Ogletree just see an excellent opportunity for a quick buck?...

At 10am on the morning of March 1st, petitions from 90% of the food service workers at Pomona College (one of America's Top Ten Liberal Arts Colleges, according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings) were delivered to the office of the College President, demanding that the...

On Sunday, the New York Times Magazine ran an absurdly fluffy interview with Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security. It is difficult to envision how the magazine could have crafted a less substantial interview. A brief excerpt:

NYT: You were a Girl Scout?

JN: I still am!...

The killing of Dr. George Tiller is, of course, the second recent politically-motivated church shooting. The first occurred in the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church on July 27th of last year. And although one was targeted at a doctor, and the other at liberals in general, both share a common...

Save for John Roberts' flubbing of the presidential oath, the parts of the inaugural ceremony that were broadcast on television went smoothly and predictably. Aretha sang, Rick Warren pronounced Malia and Sasha's names in a bizarre way, and Barack Obama gave a nice speech.

But for the millions of...

There are plenty of reasons to fear the possibility of a McCain-appointed Supreme Court justices, but the future of the exclusionary rule is one we don't discuss much. The exclusionary rule is the legal principle that evidence obtained through improper means cannot be used against a defendant. So anything...

Like all cool people, I have a Barack Obama bumper sticker on my car. I thought I was doing the senator a favor. He'd be proud of me.

And then I accidentally cut somebody off yesterday. He gave me the finger.
And I thought "What did that...

When the time came to vote on the PATRIOT act, a single senator stood up in opposition. Russ Feingold is perhaps the gutsiest senator in Congress, standing up to the Bush administration and even his fellow Democrats on numerous issues from Iraq to heath care to campaign finance reform. He's...

The news that 4 people had been arrested in Iowa while trying to perform a citizen's arrest on Karl Rove got me wondering: Can we arrest Bush administration officials ourselves? So I slogged through a slew of state statutes, and as it turns out, the answer is yes. But...

I live in a fairly absurd congressional district. Katherine Harris used to be my congresswoman. That is, before she spectacularly lost her senate race against mildly useless Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson. Ms. Harris was always good for a laugh -- during 2006 alone she called separation of church and state...

Because I am a decent, thinking person, I despise FOX News. I believe I have good reason to do this. And yet, because I'm a bleeding-heart liberal who likes to have the facts before spewing prejudices, I feel duty-bound to give FOX a chance. So I'm going to watch 24...

Etched into one of the walls of The Newseum, Washington, D.C.'s massive media museum, is a quote from H.L. Mencken. It says this: "I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter."

As I wandered through the Newseum, I saw...