How the Movement to Unseat Rahm Emanuel Is Challenging ‘1 Percent’ Urbanism How the Movement to Unseat Rahm Emanuel Is Challenging ‘1 Percent’ Urbanism
As Chuy Garcia gains momentum, another city seems possible.
Mar 4, 2015 / John Nichols
Clinton’s E-mail Mess Shows We Need a Primary, Not a Coronation Clinton’s E-mail Mess Shows We Need a Primary, Not a Coronation
It’s way too early to bet the future of the country on the Clintons’ ability to avoid scandal.
Mar 4, 2015 / Michelle Goldberg
CPAC, On Script CPAC, On Script
As long as the GOP can put a patina of reasonableness over its conservative ideology, its candidates stand a chance.
Mar 4, 2015 / Michelle Goldberg
Why Are Liberals Resigned to Low Wages? Why Are Liberals Resigned to Low Wages?
Focusing on unsolvable problems excuses them from dealing with tough political problems.
Mar 4, 2015 / Mike Konczal
Why Nobody Seems to Mind That Bill O’Reilly Is a Total Fraud Why Nobody Seems to Mind That Bill O’Reilly Is a Total Fraud
The Fox News anchor’s war stories have been exposed as lies. And it’s all good.
Mar 4, 2015 / Column / Eric Alterman
True Grit? True Grit?
Nation contributor and TV host Laura Flanders isn’t the first feminist to face down some gun-toting cowboys, but her battle is a little unusual. Since 2008, Flanders’s GRITtv has broadcast the voices of marginalized experts and grassroots activists on cable, satellite and public television, as well as online. “I interview people with grit,” Flanders explained in a phone interview. But last summer, she received a phone call asking if she was aware that there was another Grit TV station in town. Flanders jumped online, where she discovered the new Grit (grittv.com), an “action-oriented” digital channel targeting men between 25 and 54 (sexagenarians, beware!). Launched on August 18, the new Grit is “built around the classic male hero, with a focus on western, war and action movies,” said Jonathan Katz, president and CEO of Katz Broadcasting, which operates the network. Please support our journalism. Get a digital subscription for just $9.50! No sane person is likely to mistake Harrison Ford for Naomi Klein—but viewers might find it difficult to separate the near-identical branding. Flanders says her voicemail and e-mail have been filled with messages from viewers frustrated with the quality of Grit’s digital signal. Viewers confuse contact information on her website for Grit’s—and even the programming. One disgruntled viewer wrote to Flanders: “Your channel showing war films is propaganda!” Last fall, GRITtv’s lawyer sent Grit a cease-and-desist letter. GRITtv has applied for a trademark; Grit has, too. Legally, Flanders’s longtime prior use of “GRIT” gives her the right to the brand. The Grit guys have yet to acknowledge the consumer confusion, but even a cowboy could tell you that intellectual property law no longer resembles the Wild, Wild West. That frontier mentality goes by another name now: theft. Read Next: Greg Grandin on Venezuela after Chávez
Mar 4, 2015 / Ava Kofman
Meet the Politicians Trying to Bury America’s Past Meet the Politicians Trying to Bury America’s Past
Our short historical memory is no accident.
Mar 4, 2015 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Early Returns Early Returns
Paul is first, Walker second in CPAC straw vote. —News reports Oh, mirror, mirror on the wall, Just who’s the rightmost of them all? Yes, CPAC’s survey picked Rand Paul, But Walker managed to enthrall A host of cuckoos in that hall. Can either of them, come next fall, Retain Big Mo and thus forestall The latest Bush to be on call? For he brings with him to this brawl A signed-up big-bucks cash cabal.
Mar 4, 2015 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Gabby Giffords Returns to Capitol Hill to Push Background Checks Gabby Giffords Returns to Capitol Hill to Push Background Checks
The gun-control debate may have receded from memory, but advocates are still pushing Congress to take action.
Mar 4, 2015 / George Zornick
Students Make the Case for Gender Fluidity Students Make the Case for Gender Fluidity
Colleges around the country are considering adding a third gender option to their student rosters.
Mar 4, 2015 / StudentNation / Nikhilesh De and StudentNation