Why Harvard Students Are Sitting-In Outside Drew Faust’s Office Why Harvard Students Are Sitting-In Outside Drew Faust’s Office
Refusing to divest now is an irresponsible and unsustainable abrogation of Harvard’s power.
Feb 12, 2015 / StudentNation / Divest Harvard
FBI Director on Police Violence: ‘Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist’ FBI Director on Police Violence: ‘Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist’
In what was billed as a “bold” speech on race, James Comey offered platitudes and excuses.
Feb 12, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
The Videogame That Yanis Varoufakis Used to Study the Eurozone The Videogame That Yanis Varoufakis Used to Study the Eurozone
Greece’s new finance minister has studied a huge, functioning economy in incredible detail already—through an online multiplayer videogame.
Feb 12, 2015 / Helen Lewis
Sandwich Men Sandwich Men
Advertising container clues
Feb 12, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The 2015 Moral Monday Movement: ‘North Carolina Is Our Selma’ The 2015 Moral Monday Movement: ‘North Carolina Is Our Selma’
This Saturday, progressive activists in North Carolina are holding a major “Moral March on Raleigh.”
Feb 12, 2015 / Ari Berman
The Most Effective Foreign Policy Tool in the GOP’s Pocket Is an American Pipeline The Most Effective Foreign Policy Tool in the GOP’s Pocket Is an American Pipeline
Keystone XL is part of a new colonial project—and Canada and Mexico are the frontiers.
Feb 12, 2015 / Michael T. Klare
Finally, Someone Pays for Iraq War Lies—Brian Williams Finally, Someone Pays for Iraq War Lies—Brian Williams
The sacrificial lamb for a decade of profit-driven tale-spinning.
Feb 12, 2015 / Leslie Savan
February 12, 1924: George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ Premieres in New York February 12, 1924: George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ Premieres in New York
It was “a new chapter to our musical history,” The Nation’s reviewer averred.
Feb 12, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
Gentrification Is the Real Scandal Surrounding Jackie Robinson West Gentrification Is the Real Scandal Surrounding Jackie Robinson West
The Little League baseball champions from Chicago are being victimized by adults willfully ignorant of the realities of twenty-first-century cities.
Feb 12, 2015 / Dave Zirin
Arming Ukraine Is Not the Answer Arming Ukraine Is Not the Answer
Stephen F. Cohen talks with Larry King about how Obama's Ukraine policy is threatening our national security.
Feb 11, 2015 / Stephen F. Cohen