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Pope Benedict

If the Catholic Church is to change, the first thing that needs to happen is no pope, and certainly not an infallible one.

Labor protest

Immigration reform can be labor’s game-changer.

HIllary Clinton

She vowed to make women’s rights a cornerstone of US foreign policy. How did she do?

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.

stalked online picture

For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”

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.

Gun and ammunition

It’s time to end the sale of military-style assault weapons to civilians.

Blogs

The latest sports stadium swindle is going down in Chicago, and the anger is both palpable and widespread.

May 22, 2013

The hip-hop artist tackles the controversial NYPD policy.

May 21, 2013

Republicans may want to turn to an unlikely source for clues on how to sell conservatism to black voters. 

May 21, 2013

Journalism has a class and color crisis. How can it be solved?

May 21, 2013

Being malcontent never made anyone happy.

May 21, 2013

Libertarian Republicans and progressive Democrats are moving to restore privacy rights in light of revelations of Department of Justice threats to press freedom.

May 21, 2013

A major PBS funder almost scuttled a film that portrayed him in a negative light. 

May 20, 2013

Meanwhile, teachers and activists are on a three-day march to highlight the potentially explosive impact of the closings. 

May 20, 2013

A strike vote of workers at AT&T Park has national ramifications.

May 19, 2013

The debate surrounding Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation is nothing new.

May 18, 2013
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