Law

Tiffany Cabán

Tiffany Cabán Wants to Transform What It Means to Be a DA Tiffany Cabán Wants to Transform What It Means to Be a DA

The Queens candidate tells The Nation she would prosecute bad landlords, predatory lenders, and abusive employers—not black and brown communities.

Jun 13, 2019 / Q&A / Isabel Cristo

Central Park Five in 2012

Linda Fairstein Is Still Trying to Take Down the Central Park Five Linda Fairstein Is Still Trying to Take Down the Central Park Five

She’s using the media instead of the legal system, but her tactics are as corrupt as they were in 1989.

Jun 13, 2019 / Elie Mystal

Trump News Conference

The President Just Outlined the Most Damning Article of Impeachment The President Just Outlined the Most Damning Article of Impeachment

When Trump says he would collude with agents of foreign governments to influence US elections, he places himself in conflict with the Constitution.

Jun 13, 2019 / John Nichols

‘This Isn’t Your Island’: Why Northern Mariana Islanders Are Facing Down the US Military

‘This Isn’t Your Island’: Why Northern Mariana Islanders Are Facing Down the US Military ‘This Isn’t Your Island’: Why Northern Mariana Islanders Are Facing Down the US Military

Residents of the US commonwealth have discovered an apparently illegal Navy strategy to help it construct Pacific bombing ranges.

Jun 12, 2019 / Chris Gelardi and Sophia Perez

California wildfires

Will the World End in Nuclear—or Climate—Catastrophe? Will the World End in Nuclear—or Climate—Catastrophe?

Our politicians’ warmongering merely distracts us from the bigger picture of global disaster.

Jun 12, 2019 / David Bromwich

‘“Are You Illegal?” I Will Never Forget Those Words.’

‘“Are You Illegal?” I Will Never Forget Those Words.’ ‘“Are You Illegal?” I Will Never Forget Those Words.’

A young woman, brought to the US as a baby and abandoned and abused by her parents, struggles to gain status and stay in her beloved Bronx.

Jun 10, 2019 / John Washington

Students at the University of the Philippines protest Duterte

In the Philippines, a Youth Movement Stands Between Duterte and Dictatorship In the Philippines, a Youth Movement Stands Between Duterte and Dictatorship

Duterte will take control of Congress, but his quest for more power must be stopped.

Jun 10, 2019 / Noah Flora

Faces of Virginia Beach

Faces of Virginia Beach Faces of Virginia Beach

The Virginia Beach shooter who killed 12 people on May 31 went room to room in the city's municipal building using a silencer that one survivor said made the semiautomatic firearm ...

Jun 10, 2019 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

Mette Frederiksen

The European Left’s Dangerous Anti-Immigrant Turn The European Left’s Dangerous Anti-Immigrant Turn

In Denmark, the center left returned to power only by lurching to the right on immigration.

Jun 7, 2019 / Karina Piser

Mission Accomplished

The War Crimes Trump Can’t Pardon The War Crimes Trump Can’t Pardon

The president is considering pardons for military members accused of war crimes, but the officials responsible for our disastrous wars already have free passes.

Jun 7, 2019 / Rebecca Gordon

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