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Common Cause CEO Bob Edgar died last week. As New Yorkers, among others, push forward on bills to change campaign financing, it's worth remembering his words.
The new political thriller about a Weather Underground fugitive is a welcome sight.
Student activists are demanding that President Maeda endorse divestment from the coal, gas, and oil industries and commit to presenting the case for divestment to the Board of Trustees at the board’s May 17 meeting.
The upcoming protests have already attracted the attention of authorities—including the FBI.
How Americans unwittingly entered—and become exposed to biohazards in—the greatest uncontrolled experiment ever launched.
The New York Times blows the cover off the Syrian rebel movement.
Sports have been a historic avenue for immigrant acceptance in the US, but Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s story shows just how much that’s changed.
Several former Chilean student leaders are capitalizing on their high approval ratings to run for Congress and challenge Chile binomial voting system.
Gender segmentation still prevails in the workplace, the greenery of West Virginia hides the scars of strip mining and Canada's border service holds off on capturing terror suspects until new terrorism legislation came up for debate.
The poor have long known that a budget cut passed in Congress means hardship in real life. Now middle-class Americans realize that, too.
The Nation's archive helps us remember.
Industry lobbyists outspent activists 38-1, but a grassroots coalition and dissenting members of Congress appear to have rendered CISPA “dead for now.”
The US can learn a lot from Australia’s new medical abortion policy.
Air traffic controllers are back on the job, but a host of other issues haven't been solved.
Read Lemon Andersen's Noose York and share your own poetry in our comments section.
Women know sexism when they see it better than men do. This week’s case in point: Dylan Byers.
With the opening of George W's presidential library, pundits are rushing to whitewash the memory of those years of folly.
This week, Chicago and Wittenberg walk out, Ohio and Macalester sit-in and Michigan blocks the street for tuition equality. Nationwide, students demand that immigration reform include LGBT people and spread awareness of Title IX rights.
GoFundMe donations are a good Band-Aid for a bad system, but can’t we harness America’s generosity in service of better social programs?
The answer is diplomacy, not war.
The first Hollywood film about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb started out with warnings about a nuclear arms race but ended up extolling The Bomb and promoting decades of terror.
Defining our policies with respect to definitions
The “War on Whistleblowers” shines a light on normal people who acted with extraordinary courage, conviction and clarity when presented with information they just couldn’t live without revealing.
For half a century, Bob walked with the movements for economic and social justice, for peace, and above all for democracy.
The New York Times columnist chastises President Obama for his failure to deal with other pols, ignoring the huge flaws of a system based on silent filibusters and fundraisers.
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