How White Liberals Used Civil Rights to Create More Prisons How White Liberals Used Civil Rights to Create More Prisons
In their quest to wipe out extra-legal racial violence, white liberals created a system that continues to kill black people—legally.
Jan 6, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Vicky Osterweil
January 6, 1919: Theodore Roosevelt Dies January 6, 1919: Theodore Roosevelt Dies
Previously critical of the former president’s “half-baked Rooseveltian socialism,” by the time of his death The Nation had swung to the left. We saw TR as “...
Jan 6, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
Do Not Criticize the NYPD Do Not Criticize the NYPD
It will really hurt their feelings.
Jan 6, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow
Stuart Scott Changed Sports Media and Changed Me Stuart Scott Changed Sports Media and Changed Me
Dave Zirin appeared on MSNBC's The Reid Report to talk about the passing of the trailblazing ESPN anchor, Stuart Scott.
Jan 5, 2015 / Dave Zirin
150 Years of ‘The Nation’ in the World 150 Years of ‘The Nation’ in the World
Watch the remarks of Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, Calvin Trillin, Greg Grandin, Juan Cole and Sara Alpern at the first event marking The Nation’s 150th anniversar...
Jan 5, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
‘Nothing Was an Accident That Night’: Mexican Federal Police Implicated in the Disappearance of the 43 ‘Nothing Was an Accident That Night’: Mexican Federal Police Implicated in the Disappearance of the 43
As he prepares to visit Washington, President Enrique Peña Nieto’s alibi is unraveling.
Jan 5, 2015 / Greg Grandin
Plummeting Oil Prices Could Bring Radical Change to Russia. What Comes Next? Plummeting Oil Prices Could Bring Radical Change to Russia. What Comes Next?
The weakness of the petrostate economy could jolt Russia’s political elites—or its ordinary citizens—to take action.
Jan 5, 2015 / David M. Kotz
Is Crowdsourcing Bad for Workers? Is Crowdsourcing Bad for Workers?
“Cloud labor” sites like Crowdflower may be the face of the future—but their wages are stuck in a sweatshop past.
Jan 5, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Antonin Scalia: Torture’s Not Torture Unless He Says It Is Antonin Scalia: Torture’s Not Torture Unless He Says It Is
The Supreme Court justice might need to brush up on his Eighth Amendment.
Jan 5, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Stuart Scott Was My Strength Stuart Scott Was My Strength
When I was at my lowest, Stuart Scott’s words reframed cancer for me in an indelible manner.
Jan 5, 2015 / Dave Zirin