LIVESTREAM: What Conversations About Race Do We Need to Be Having Right Now? LIVESTREAM: What Conversations About Race Do We Need to Be Having Right Now?

Race is back where it needs to be at the front and center of our discussions about culture, equality, and freedom in the US—but are we talking about it in the right way?

Nov 17, 2015 / The Nation

The Very Worst Takeaways From the Paris Attacks The Very Worst Takeaways From the Paris Attacks

Nov 17, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow

Why the Biggest Problem with the Media Is Not ‘Liberal Bias’ Why the Biggest Problem with the Media Is Not ‘Liberal Bias’

It’s as important as ever to reform a corporatized system that’s rigged against the public interest and failing our democracy.

Nov 17, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

What’s the Real Story Behind the American Attack on Doctors Without Borders? What’s the Real Story Behind the American Attack on Doctors Without Borders?

The American government’s changing, contradictory account of the deadly attack on a hospital in Afghanistan has been anything but believable.

Nov 16, 2015 / Laura Gottesdiener

Don’t Tell the Student Protesters at Yale to ‘Grow Up’ Don’t Tell the Student Protesters at Yale to ‘Grow Up’

They are already plenty grown up. It’s their adult critics who are behaving like children.

Nov 13, 2015 / Bruce Shapiro

Why Isn’t Yale As Radical as Mizzou? Why Isn’t Yale As Radical as Mizzou?

University of Missouri students pulled all the right levers for structural change. Why hasn’t Yale done the same?

Nov 11, 2015 / StudentNation / Daniel Moattar

The Republican Debate Fiasco Is About to Get Dumb and Dumber The Republican Debate Fiasco Is About to Get Dumb and Dumber

Arbitrary decisions are sending candidates who actually have something to say to oblivion.

Nov 6, 2015 / John Nichols

Letters From the November 23/30 Issue Letters From the November 23/30 Issue

Bombs without borders… burying inequality… objectively unreasonable… a real bad apple… et tu, MSNBC?…

Nov 5, 2015 / Our Readers

2 New Movies About Why the Powerful Are Trying to Kill Journalism 2 New Movies About Why the Powerful Are Trying to Kill Journalism

Truth and Spotlight put media at the heart of American democracy and make you wonder about its decline.

Nov 4, 2015 / Leslie Savan

Is the New Cold War Trending in Russia’s Favor from Syria to Europe? Is the New Cold War Trending in Russia’s Favor from Syria to Europe?

And will it leave the United States increasingly isolated?

Nov 4, 2015 / Stephen F. Cohen