A Crisis to Address: Why the Senate’s Discussing a Democracy Amendment A Crisis to Address: Why the Senate’s Discussing a Democracy Amendment
A judiciary subcommittee holds the first hearing ever on the need for a constitutional remedy to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United and McCutcheon rulings.
Jun 5, 2014 / John Nichols
Can the Internet Be a ‘People’s Platform’? A Q&A With Astra Taylor Can the Internet Be a ‘People’s Platform’? A Q&A With Astra Taylor
Her new book reconsiders how democratic the digital world really is.
Jun 4, 2014 / Sarah Leonard
Sex Trafficking, Lies & Money: Lessons From the Somaly Mam Scandal Sex Trafficking, Lies & Money: Lessons From the Somaly Mam Scandal
Why exactly did the telegenic Cambodian campaigner use fake trafficking victims to raise philanthropic cash from Westerners? And when will Nicholas Kristof ever learn?
Jun 4, 2014 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Here’s What Anyone Who Cares About the Planet Needs to Know About the EPA’s New Regulations Here’s What Anyone Who Cares About the Planet Needs to Know About the EPA’s New Regulations
The Obama administration’s new targets to reduce carbon emissions are a step in the right direction, but we need to demand much more.
Jun 4, 2014 / Mark Hertsgaard
Join the ‘Not One More’ Campaign to End Gun Violence Join the ‘Not One More’ Campaign to End Gun Violence
Just a day after his son was killed, Richard Martinez asked people across the country to send postcards to their elected representatives with the simple phrase “Not one more....
Jun 4, 2014 / NationAction
Welcome to West Port Arthur, Texas, Ground Zero in the Fight for Climate Justice Welcome to West Port Arthur, Texas, Ground Zero in the Fight for Climate Justice
If you live in a toxic environment like this, surrounded by refineries, you’re probably not thinking about some future apocalypse. You’re living in one.
Jun 3, 2014 / Feature / Wen Stephenson
Students Blockade for Trans Justice, Dish 18,000 Red Squares and Push California to Divest From Guns Students Blockade for Trans Justice, Dish 18,000 Red Squares and Push California to Divest From Guns
As the semester ends, direct action rages on.
Jun 3, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Remembering and Misremembering Tiananmen Remembering and Misremembering Tiananmen
The Nation published one of the few accounts of what actually happened in Tiananmen Square twenty-five years ago.
Jun 3, 2014 / Steven Hsieh
Since When Does Free Speech Require Students to Stay Quiet? Since When Does Free Speech Require Students to Stay Quiet?
Former UC-Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau characterizes words as violent but shrugs his shoulders at the very real violence committed against his own students and faculty.
Jun 2, 2014 / StudentNation / Sam Warren and StudentNation
Why Are Queer Activists and Muslim Scholars Holding Vigils Outside a Manhattan Prison? Why Are Queer Activists and Muslim Scholars Holding Vigils Outside a Manhattan Prison?
As young Muslim men disappear into US prisons for “pre-crimes” they haven’t committed, activists demand justice.
May 30, 2014 / Aviva Stahl