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Where's the Revolution? (Racism and Discrimination, Social Justice, Gay and Lesbian Issues and Organizing, Sex and Sexuality, Society)

When I came out in Boston in the mid-l970s, I had no way of knowing that the lesbian and gay movement I was discovering was in many ways unique.

Barbara Smith

Blogs

A Music Video Without Papers
Aura Bogado

If living through the reality of immigrant raids and detention seems difficult, try depicting it with cameras rolling.

April 8, 2013
What You Need to Know About the Indiana University Strike
StudentNation

This week, students and staff will walk out of class and off the job in support of a comprehensive set of demands for worker rights and economic equity.

April 8, 2013
Ryan Devereaux: Just How Important Is New York's Stop-and-Frisk Trial?
Nation in the News

For men of color in New York, getting stopped-and-frisked is a daily reality. Will the courts do anything to change it? 

April 5, 2013
Schumer Wants to Have His Cake and Eat It, Too
Aura Bogado

The leading Democrat working to unveil a comprehensive immigration reform bill is getting his campaign money from the private detention industry.

April 3, 2013
Victory! The Stopping of Owlcatraz
Dave Zirin

When FAU accepted a private prison company's $6 million "goodwill" in stadium naming rights, students would have none of it. Now, the deal is dead.

April 2, 2013
Five Fears About '42'
Dave Zirin

If the new Jackie Robinson biopic follows standard Hollywood procedure, here's the complicated legacy it'll whitewash.

April 1, 2013
This Week: Deliberating on DOMA and Prop 8
Katrina vanden Heuvel

A watershed moment for marriage equality—and Tony Kushner’s moving essay nearly two decades ago: Introducing The Nation Archive!

March 30, 2013
Is 'Game of Thrones' Escapist Enough?
Michelle Dean

We need escapist fantasies like Game of Thrones. But what’s it doing to our revolutionary imagination?

March 29, 2013
Obama Hiccups on Guest Workers
Aura Bogado

We do know that a comprehensive immigration reform bill will soon surface. The trouble is, we don’t know what it will contain.

March 28, 2013
What Can Men Do to Stop Rape Culture?
Nation in the News

Or, what does it mean to be a man? Eve Ensler talks to a panel of men, including Dave Zirin, Jimmy Briggs and Tony Porter, on the role men can play in ending rape culture.

March 27, 2013