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Obama’s Powerful Call to ‘Make War Less Likely and Cruelty Less Easily Accepted’
Speaking in Hiroshima, the president channels Eisenhower’s urging to take “the chance for a just peace for all peoples.”
John NicholsArmed Conflicts
The EU Has Turned Greece Into a Prison for Refugees
The grief, frustration, and need that have washed up on these shores is overwhelming.
Maria MargaronisAfrica
Confronting the Resource Curse and Civil War in the Congo
The depictions of Congolese humanity and pain in When Elephants Fight, a new documentary, make it necessary viewing for Westerners.
John KnefelLatin America
Still Selling Neoliberal Unicorns: The US Applauds the Coup in Brazil, Calls It Democracy
Washington now has compliant compradores in power in Argentina and Brazil—and perhaps soon in Venezuela.
Greg GrandinLatest From The Nation
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Even After Minimum-Wage Hikes, Workers Could Still Be Getting Robbed
The new wage laws will increase minimum wages, but won’t strengthen the wage-enforcement system.
Michelle Chen
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The Afterlife of Polaroid
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Election 2016
Clinton Needs Sanders Supporters to Win, but Sanders Needs Clinton Supporters to Change the System
The chaos at the Nevada State Convention highlights the perils of constantly calling your party corrupt.
Joshua Holland
Making Trump ‘Presidential’
The leap from common man to dignified leader of the free world is part of the national myth. But Donald Trump requires a real-life fairy tale we haven’t seen before.
Leslie Savan
Why Hillary Clinton Benefits From a Genuine Convention Debate
Facing a barrage of well-meaning advice from Democrats panicked about Trump, Clinton needs a shift back to issues.
Joan WalshNation Voices
American capitalism
A New Coalition Aims to 'Take On Wall Street'
Just because the Democratic primary is drawing to a close doesn’t mean a conversation about financial reform has to end.
George ZornickUpset About Excessive CEO Pay? So Are Some BlackRock Shareholders
A proposal to put more muscle into the firm’s approach to CEO pay failed, but some are declaring it a victory anyway.
Sarah AndersonHow Wall Street Caused a Water Crisis in America's Cities
Vulnerable residents are paying the price for dangerous financial deals.
Carrie SloanSpring Books
The Soul of the Tea Party
The Koch brothers may have paid for some buses, but Fox News and talk radio filled them with bodies.
David Bromwich
The Anthropocene Truism
Humans and the environment have never been separable. But what does the idea mean for politics?
Katrina Forrester
Don DeLillo’s American Dream
His recent protagonists dream only of money, except perhaps for the technological advances that will allow them to go on acquiring it indefinitely.
Jon Baskin
Watch and Listen
Listen: Donald Trump Knows the Age of Reagan Is Over. Does Hillary?
Plus climate protests around the world, and Patrick Cockburn’s ISIS update.
May 19, 2016
View: These Haunting Photos Show the Deadly Absurdity of the US-Mexico Border Wall
A collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and experimental composer Guillermo Galindo captures the austere brutality of the borderlands.
May 11, 2016
Listen: There Goes the Neighborhood, Episode 9: There Went the Neighborhood
The team behind There Goes the Neighborhood talks about what they’ve learned, and the way forward in a post-gentrified Brooklyn.
May 4, 2016
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