Lobbyists are winning top jobs in Congress and are poised to provide big legislative favors to their former employers.
Rather than limiting third parties' influence, Gov. Andrew Cuomo should work with them to take action on campaign finance reform.
Big business and the explosion in college tuition are robbing kids of a positive youth sports experience.
In the name of homeland security, the US has spent seven years and untold dollars silencing one man.
As part of The Nation's mayoral candidate series, de Blasio gives his views on how to tackle economic inequality.
Tired of their lives in other people’s hands, window makers started a co-op.
In the third walkout of its kind in five weeks, workers across the city are demanding a living wage of $15 per hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.
Climate change and its political repercussions.
“Humanitarian” intervention would only deepen the humanitarian disaster.
Resistance is growing, and with good reason—test mania delivers few benefits and often harms the students it’s meant to help.
John Nichols on CISPA’s opponents, Cos Tollerson on Brazil’s stadium controversy, Allison Kilkenny on Occupy the Pipeline
Someone somewhere must die for the pleasure someone somewhere else takes in a $4.95 bikini top.
Media observers horrified at the thought of a Koch takeover of the Tribune Company are more sanguine about Murdoch. What are they thinking?
The recent victories of the right-wing, anti-immigrant United Kingdom Independence Party says more about our scapegoats than about its long-term prospects.
The recent victories of the right-wing, anti-immigrant United Kingdom Independence Party says more about our scapegoats than about its long-term prospects.
Once Mark Sanford won the Republican primary, he was all but certain to win in a district drawn to elect Republicans. That’s how it works in America.
Once again, as in run-up to Iraq war, McClatchy casts doubt on unproven WMD evidence.
Meanwhile, Republicans oppose green cards for same-sex couples.
Corporate totalitarianism is spreading rapidly, and it’s not just Assange or Manning they want. It is all who dare to defy the official narrative.
It just might work. But the bombs-away crowd isn’t happy.
What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?
James Hansen bravely told the truth even when the Bush administration tried to silence and penalize him.
Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?
Progressive activists can learn important lessons from a successful grassroots campaign against transit racism.


