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School police

After Newtown, policy-makers are making schools more like prisons—at the expense of those they should be protecting.

What happens when the media report the crimes of the elite, amid the worst economic crisis in decades? They get threatened—sometimes with their lives.

Rahm Emanuel

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is continuing the city’s tradition of refusing to apologize for the torture of scores of black men under police commander Jon Burge.

Larry Swearingen

Swearingen has faced execution four times for a crime scientists say he could not have committed.

Labor protest

Immigration reform can be labor’s game-changer.

Barack Obama

Even if we like President Obama, do we want him to be a one-man death panel?

School buses

The school-to-prison pipeline has emerged quickly, but the corrosive effect of criminalizing children will be felt for generations to come.

Gun rights advocates

Opponents of gun control spent the last twenty years undermining local approaches to gun policy.

Immigration reform protest

Will Obama’s new immigration reform agenda lead to real changes for the millions of immigrants living in legal limbo?

What can we expect from comprehensive immigration reform? In this Nation Conversation, Aura Bogado breaks down the range of possibilities for America's undocumented.

Blogs

A Freedom of Information Act Request reveals that immigration agents were instructed to search DMV records to target immigrants. 

February 15, 2013

Newtown shooter Adam Lanza's mother has been painted as a victim, yet she was the one who bought an arsenal of guns, taught Adam to shoot them and left them close at hand.

February 15, 2013

What didn't Obama say about immigration in his State of the Union address? The Nation’s Aura Bogado breaks it down at Democracy Now!

February 13, 2013

In his State of the Union address, the president reminded us that “deficit reduction is not an economic plan.” Will he be able to hold off the austerity-mongerers?

February 13, 2013

Some undocumented immigrants expected more on immigration from Obama’s State of the Nation speech. 

February 13, 2013

Domestic workers could get left out of the fast track and even the slow track for citizenship, but there are ways to include them in reform.

February 12, 2013

What’s next for the Democratic Party? Nation writer John Nichols appears on The Ed Show to forecast upcoming legislative battles.

February 11, 2013

The president should condemn violence at home, and hold himself accountable for violence abroad, as well. 

February 8, 2013

We might not be inspired to commit violence by shows like The Following, but we are encouraged to ignore how violence is actually committed in America.

February 8, 2013

New polling shows McConnell is vulnerable on his gun industry money and anti-gun law stance. 

February 8, 2013
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