In Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat), committed vegan and multi-platinum recording artist Moby and Miyun Park of the Global Animal Partnership pull together a book for nonvegans on meat-eating.

Have you read the Newsweek article, “Are We There Yet?”? It is a milestone. It explores the 40th anniversary of 46 women at Newsweek who filed a sex discrimination case with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. What the article uncovers is that room still exists for improvement despite the progress from the 1970 action. Acknowledging that women's rights are far from won is a major admission within mainstream media. It usually bends over backwards to declare feminism dead.

Social justice movements take more than clicking a link on an online petition, says Paul Rogat Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Trying Times. Making change requires getting out in the streets, going door-to-door, and talking to other people face to face.

The California Nurses Association and other nurses' unions were some of the strongets voices for real healthcare reform, continuing to call for single-payer Medicare for All even now. But with the birth of the new National Nurses United, the nurses are fighting battles on all fronts for healthcare--from a strike at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia to struggles with Massachusetts' program.

The California Nurses Association and other nurses' unions were some of the strongets voices for real healthcare reform, continuing to call for single-payer Medicare for All even now. But with the birth of the new National Nurses United, the nurses are fighting battles on all fronts for healthcare--from a strike at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia to struggles with Massachusetts' program.

The WikiLeaks video of civilian killings by U.S. forces in Iraq has inspired some soul-searching this week. The New York Times ran a story on the dehumanizing effect of military training. The reporter wrote of the leaked video: “One reason that the soldiers seemed as if they were playing a video game is that, in a morbid but necessary sense, they were.”

The nation's attention may be focused on the mine explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, but around the country, 16 people die every day from preventable injuries and accidents in the workplace. This video from Brave New Films looks at the regulations that exist--and new regulations that would help Hilda Solis's labor department better protect working people in the U.S.

Monday's revelation of a videotape of U.S. soldiers shooting unarmed Iraqi civilians is still reverberating around the country. The Wikileaks video is raising questions about procedure, the rules of engagement, and even freedom of speech and of the press.

On Tuesday, the Obama White House released its Nuclear Posture Review, a policy statement that sets guidelines for nuclear weapons policy for the next five to ten years. Mother Jones' David Corn notes that arms control advocates were "mildly impressed" with the policy, which is being characterized as a middle course.

We learned all too late about the disaster brewing in domestic real estate; that helped destroy our economy the first time around. Now, the city is dotted with new commercial buildings standing empty, no one can afford to rent them. GRITtv took a trip around the city to look into the reasons why we're building huge towers--and how we can get better at matching the allocation of resources with need.