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Americans sacrifice to pay for a militarized, increasingly unequal society. Is it any wonder that people respond to calls for selflessness with defensiveness and cynicism?

Guest-hosting The Rachel Maddow Show, Nation DC Editor Chris Hayes speaks with Arizona Representative Raúl Grijalva about the ongoing assault on civil liberties in his state and the racial basis for the infamous new immigration law.

Ari Melber debates the legality of SB 1070 with Eliot Spitzer, guest-host of The Dylan Ratigan Show.

The Nation's sports correspondent, Dave Zirin, appears on Democracy Now! giving a history lesson of protest and sports and the recent news of "Los Suns" protesting Arizona's anti-immigration law.

We can't simply grow our way out of unemployment.

Ari Melber discusses immigration reform and Crist’s switch to Independent on The Dylan Ratigan Show.

Over a thousand gathered to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and to pass the torch to a new generation.

Under Obama, accountability for rights violations during the "war of terror" has been thin.

How the war on drugs gave birth to a permanent American undercaste.

Virginia's governor repeals protection against sexual discrimination and may cut funding to Planned Parenthood.

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As the spring semester ends and elected officials approach critical votes, students across the country are rising up to take back public education.

May 24, 2013

What's happening in St Louis doesn't look like a coal-field war, but the same things are at stake: reciprocity, respect, fair play.

May 23, 2013

The Senate Judiciary Committee moves the immigration bill to full debate—without LGBT inclusion.

May 22, 2013

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

May 21, 2013

A high court’s preliminary ruling indicates there is not rational basis for Governor Jan Brewer’s attempt to deny driver’s licenses for certain immigrants.

May 17, 2013

Today’s actions follow a recent groundswell of student walkouts—and months of organizing.

May 17, 2013

The name of one Chicago business-turned-cooperative reflects burgeoning possibilities for the American labor movement.

May 16, 2013

New York's Attorney General has issued subpoenas to a fast food company and is investigating several franchisees for what employees say is a rampant issue.

May 16, 2013

Advocates are pleading Obama to suspend the deportations of those who would gain status under a new immigration bill.

May 13, 2013

Security in Somalia, racism at the Grey Lady and the biggest atomic security breach in United States history. Also: hipsters, Game of Thrones and the "Russian Facebook."

May 10, 2013
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