Nation Topics - Racism and Discrimination | The Nation

Assailed by the right as a fiction, anti-Muslim bias is all too real for those who live with it.

Sharia is as unthreatening to the US legal system as the ideas in the Old Testament. Yet bigoted hysteria is fueling legislation that actually undermines our courts.

Before the War on Terror and Ray Kelly's spies, the War on Crime helped transform the NYPD into a small army.

Philanthropist Nina Rosenwald has used her millions to cement the alliance between the pro-Israel lobby and the Islamophobic fringe.

Republicans are turning to tired, failed strategies in an effort to alienate both black and white voters from President Obama.

You may have never heard of True the Vote, but the organization has major plans for upcoming elections across the country.

Why is a first-world country imprisoning its children for life?

What makes this case exceptional is neither race nor the politics of self-defense alone but the total failure to investigate it for so long.

Those new to the cause of defending black life will soon have to face the bleak truth black people have lived with for so long: we don’t often win.

Like trial of OJ Simpson and the Rodney King case, the Zimmerman trial may reveal very different visions of justice.