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The Flatiron Building in 1903, at the end of the last Gilded Age

In the Age of Bloomberg, America’s most iconic big city is also its most unequal.

In a neighborhood immune to gentrification, a different model of revitalization is required.

NYPD Terrorism

After Boston, we must proceed with caution—and respect the rule of law.

Nearly forty years after Ford told New York to drop dead, the city is still here—but forever changed.

An elite nonprofit no one’s ever heard of has turned New York into a city of tall towers and tony boulevards.

As images of wealth abound, the struggles of ordinary workers have become invisible.

Iraq

What used to be called "shell shock" is now the daily stress of living in a war zone.

Rinku Sen on the Associated Press's decision to "drop the 'i' word," Robert Dreyfuss on Hagel's bad budget rhetoric, and the editors on a prize for Nation illustrator Steven Brodner.

From the All in the Red Collective in New York to the Oxy Sexual Assault Coalition in California, young activists are on the march.

Blogs

The conservative Koch brothers are aiming to use their vast wealth to buy a consortium of newspapers. Here’s why you should worry. 

April 25, 2013

The world’s largest sports network just hired a noted critic as its watchdog. What’s next for sports media?

April 24, 2013

In the wake of 9/11 and Boston, is it even possible to imagine a movie that makes civil liberties an integral part of its dramatic arc?

April 23, 2013

As the school year draws to an end, activists fear that this tuition decision marks the end of free higher education in the United States.

April 23, 2013

Rooting out "thinspiration" in social media is a start, but we must not turn "thinspo" into a scapegoat.

April 23, 2013

The media, the austerity-hawks and the government should all just give up.

April 23, 2013

Did Reuters and The New York Times lie in their coverage?

April 23, 2013

Will Justices agree that requiring HIV service providers to oppose prostitution is necessary for ending AIDS?

April 22, 2013

The Steubenville school board extended the contract of football coach Reno Saccoccia despite his behavior during his players' recent rape trial.

April 22, 2013

The way communities of color respond to the logic of antiterrorism can make us part of the problem—or the solution.

April 22, 2013
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