Nation Topics - Race and Religion | The Nation

Hamza Kashgari’s persecution—merely for tweeting uncertainty about his religious faith—exposes the cynicism and brutality of the kingdom’s royal-clerical rulers.

The brash webzine +972 is challenging a political and media culture that has moved steadily to the right.

Dismissed as inauthentic and overlooked by rock critics, Houston inspired a rainbow connection of Gen X and Y singers to belt across the colorline.

How can it be that the “richest Jew in the world” can buy the foreign policy of a major party’s presidential contender and “the Jews” have somehow escaped the blame?

The authors of Arizona’s new law want to collapse Latino identity into white American mythology.

More than a quarter of African-Americans live in poverty. During Black History Month, we should speak truthfully about the economic legacy that drives this inequality.

Shouldn't it be obvious that birth control coverage is about women's health, not “religious freedom”?

Republicans are using the redistricting process to undermine minority voting power and ensure their party's dominance.

In today’s media climate, it’s much easier to smear critics of the push for war on Iran as “anti-Semites” than to deal honestly with the facts.