Nation Topics - Howard Zinn | The Nation

From the ethnic studies ban to firings over Travyon Martin, a strange hostility toward progressive education is emerging.

One of the last big encampments left, Occupy Boston is strugging to square its inclusive philosophy with the realities of urban life.

Throughout his life and work, Howard Zinn was fashioning a living concept of what it means to be a good citizen.

Peter Dreier's list of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century honored the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream. But his list could only include a handful of all those who have contributed to this tradition. We asked our readers to nominate the American progressives who have made the biggest difference in the twentieth century.

The military may not be winning the Afghan War, but it is winning the Afghan publishing wars at home, with a striking percentage of books on the war Pentagon-influenced or simply Pentagon-produced.

The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream.

A commencement address for those graduating into a disillusioned and disconnected can't-do nation.

NPR's attempt to appease its critics by featuring comment from conservative pundits went a step too far when it let radical right-wing advocate David Horowitz contribute to Howard Zinn's obituary.