The Mediterranean is Europe's Migrant Graveyard

Matt Carr Inter Press Service
More than 3,000 migrants have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean this year, more than any previous year. The European Union (EU) is ignoring the tragedy unfolding on its southern maritime borders and its impact on the so-called border countries of Greece, Spain, Italy, and Malta. The EU's "woeful response" has transformed the Mediterranean into a “survival test for refugees and migrants," and thousands are paying with their lives.

America's Broken Promise to the Women of Afghanistan

Ann Jones TomDispatch
The liberation of Afghanistan women was one of the Bush Administration's prime selling points for the U.S. invasion in 2001. But for more than a decade the U.S. has repeatedly sided with the most ultraconservative undemocratic forces in Afghanistan to the detriment of the rights of Afghan women. Today, after 13 years of war, and 13 years of U.S. promises, the women of Afghanistan "have been shut out, shut down, and silenced by fear."

The ISIS Quagmire

Fred Kaplan Slate
America’s campaign against ISIS has already lost its way.

Hints of Progress in the Ebola Fight

Dina Fine Maron Scientific American
The number of Ebola cases appear to be dropping in Liberia—but what will it take to stamp out the disease?

Jim Crow Returns

Greg Palast Al Jazeera
Millions of minority voters are threatened by an electoral purge

Lewis Black Says F#%! Voter Suppression

At a photo shoot with the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project Director Dale Ho, ACLU voting rights ambassador Lewis Black gets so f#%!in’ tired of politicians trying to deny people the right to vote.

Rock The Vote Presents: #TURNOUTFORWHAT

Rock The Vote Presents #TURNOUTFORWHAT starring Lil Jon and featuring Lena Dunham, Whoopi Goldberg, Natasha Lyonne, Fred Armisen, E.J. Johnson, Darren Criss, Sophia Bush, Ireland Baldwin, Devendra Banhart, Ioanna Gika and Gabriel Valenciano.