Elizabeth Warren Just Gave a Really Important—and Revealing—Speech Elizabeth Warren Just Gave a Really Important—and Revealing—Speech

Warren’s focus on the structural problems with the American economy staked out a clear line dividing the moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic party.

Jan 7, 2015 / George Zornick

Breaking Taboos, BDS Gains Ground Among Academics Breaking Taboos, BDS Gains Ground Among Academics

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has a long way to go, but recent endorsements show it’s getting somewhere.

Jan 7, 2015 / David Palumbo-Liu

Comix Nation Comix Nation

Jan 7, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow

Snapshot: Looking Backward Snapshot: Looking Backward

A Shinto priest at the Meiji shrine in Tokyo bids farewell to 2014. The shrine was visited by Hillary Clinton in 2009 on her first trip abroad representing President Obama as his secretary of state. It is surrounded by 175 acres of evergreen forest.

Jan 7, 2015 / Thomas Peter

Bill de Blasio Is Just Getting Started Bill de Blasio Is Just Getting Started

The former activist and New York public advocate discusses his first year as mayor.

Jan 7, 2015 / Feature / Eric Alterman

America’s Workplaces Are Hostile to Families America’s Workplaces Are Hostile to Families

To fix social problems, we need to stop looking to marriage, and start creating more equitable public policy.

Jan 7, 2015 / Michelle Chen

How Unstable Is the Saudi Petro-Kingdom? How Unstable Is the Saudi Petro-Kingdom?

From plummeting petroleum prices to political unrest, it has been decades since the fortunes of the kingdom were so much in doubt.

Jan 7, 2015 / Juan Cole

Edward Brooke and the Republican Party That Might Have Been Edward Brooke and the Republican Party That Might Have Been

The late senator, who was once considered a vice presidential prospect, tried to prevent the GOP’s lurch to the right.

Jan 7, 2015 / John Nichols

January 7, 1999: The Impeachment Trial of Bill Clinton Begins January 7, 1999: The Impeachment Trial of Bill Clinton Begins

In The Nation Jonathan Schell laid to rest any comparisons between Clinton’s crimes, such as they were, and those of Richard Nixon.

Jan 7, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas. We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas.

In a country that has always used race to justify inequality, ending police brutality is just the start.

Jan 7, 2015 / Feature / Jesse A. Myerson and Mychal Denzel Smith