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Occupy Wallstreet protest

Thoughts for the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.

Former Occupy activist Justine Tunney

On its second anniversary, a sense of failure pervades the Occupy movement, as many core activists have moved on with their lives. But was it really all for naught?

Drone strike in Yemen

For years I have written about mass incarceration, while staying mute about drones and other injustices. It is time to connect the dots.

climate change rally

What to make of change on an overheating planet.

Occupy Wallstreet protest

A band of finance wizards take on the system they now say is corrupt.

foreclosed home

The landscape of Wall Street’s creative destruction.

Amy Meyer

So-called "Ag-Gag" laws reveal the lengths to which the agriculture industry will go to keep their business practices secret.

Moral Mondays

An inspiring grassroots movement is fighting back against the GOP’s outrageous budget cuts and attacks on democracy.

Activism image

Ken Ward and Jay O'Hara are reminiscent of the human-centered, Quaker-inspired anti-nuke founders of Greenpeace.

Blogs

A tale of two attacked cities, or the differences between New York and Oklahoma City.

September 24, 2010

Unity College students and Bill McKibben launch road trip to reinstall Jimmy Carter solar panel back on the White House roof.

September 9, 2010

An idea from the past could help secure the future.

September 7, 2010

Fox's silliest self-promoter tried to claim a piece of the civil rights legacy. But the anniversary march that mattered was in Detroit, where the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the UAW's Bob King called for jobs, justice and peace.

August 28, 2010

Beck and his followers say they are out to "reclaim the civil rights movement." It would be comic if it was not so sad.

August 28, 2010

Five years after the tragedy in the Gulf, The Nation continues to follow the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

August 27, 2010

Sixty-five years after the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, controversy continues to rage over the acts, sparked this time by President Obama's decision to send a US envoy to Hiroshima for the official ceremony today.

August 6, 2010

This Friday marks the 65th anniversary of the first use of the atomic bomb against a large city. Since that day, creative artists of every variety have made incisive, satiric or powerful statements about nuclear threat. What these artistic statements share, however, with rare exceptions, is an avoidance of the specific subject of Hiroshima.

August 3, 2010
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