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A clash between a feminist activist and a former Guantánamo detainee divides the left.

At Berkeley in 1964, Mario Savio embodied the need to speak and act in the face of doubt.

The journal's sustained critique of neoliberalism remains indispensable.

Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel proposes rocker John
Mellencamp as a successor to Evan Bayh and considers the likelihood of a Republican majority.

Remembering a visionary thinker and doer.

NPR's attempt to appease its critics by featuring comment from conservative pundits went a step too far when it let radical right-wing advocate David Horowitz contribute to Howard Zinn's obituary.

Howard Zinn's writings remain essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the upheavals of the '60s

Remembering the pragmatic radical.

Katrina vanden Heuvel urges Democrats to mobilize their base and stop making damaging compromises with the Right.

As part of America's progressive folk tradition, The Tillers demonstrate that the left has long been essential to the country's cultural fabric.