Nation Topics - Social Justice | The Nation

A wave of anti-gay laws have brought Russia’s LGBT movement into the international spotlight, but activists are divided over strategies, including proposed boycotts.

Meanwhile, activists organized a counter-summit to discuss the problems world leaders were unwilling to address. 

For years I have written about mass incarceration, while staying mute about drones and other injustices. It is time to connect the dots.

Doesn’t a truly effective fight for LGBT rights in Russia need to be led by Russians?

With Governor Jerry Brown taking a hardline position, strikers must turn to the courts, public opinion or the legislature.

Dr. King’s words in a world awash with surveillance. 

Fifty years after the March on Washington, Dr. King’s most famous speech, like his own political legacy, is widely misunderstood.

On city walls across the country, muralists and street artists depict him as a statesman, visionary, hero and martyr.

How low-wage food service workers are serving up justice.

Fifty years after King’s historic march, the struggle for racial justice faces unprecedented challenges.