Social Movements Didn’t Kill the NYPD Officers. A Man With Untreated Mental Illness and a Gun Did. Social Movements Didn’t Kill the NYPD Officers. A Man With Untreated Mental Illness and a Gun Did.
From Bill de Blasio to Eric Holder to Barack Obama to #BlackLivesMatter, right-wing pundits are blaming everyone and everything but the obvious.
Dec 23, 2014 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Day the Troops Refused to Fight: December 25, 1914 The Day the Troops Refused to Fight: December 25, 1914
It’s the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Truce of WWI.
Dec 23, 2014 / Jon Wiener
The Change in Cuba Policy Is a Nod to Reality The Change in Cuba Policy Is a Nod to Reality
The president's announcement this week was a long overdue step into the twenty-first century.
Dec 23, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Why Climate Change Is Not Inevitable Why Climate Change Is Not Inevitable
As Ursula K. Le Guin reminds us, any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
Dec 23, 2014 / Rebecca Solnit
Why Is No One Talking About the NYPD Shooter’s Other Target? Why Is No One Talking About the NYPD Shooter’s Other Target?
Before Ismaaiyl Brinsley killed two police officers, he shot Shaneka Thompson. That matters more than law enforcement’s blame game.
Dec 23, 2014 / Dani McClain
Thank Postal Workers by Fighting to Save the Postal Service Thank Postal Workers by Fighting to Save the Postal Service
The USPS will deliver 15.5 billion pieces of mail this season. Yet it is threatened by devastating closures and cuts.
Dec 23, 2014 / John Nichols
Introducing ‘The Almanac’: This Day in ‘Nation’ History Introducing ‘The Almanac’: This Day in ‘Nation’ History
Andrew Johnson’s and Bill Clinton’s impeachment trials; obituaries for Theodore Roosevelt, Vladimir Lenin and Winston Churchill; the beginnings of the Prague Spring and...
Dec 23, 2014 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
After Cuba, Obama Can Make History by Recognizing Palestine After Cuba, Obama Can Make History by Recognizing Palestine
Now that President Obama has broken the taboo on recognizing Cuba, he should send a US ambassador to Palestine as a prerequisite for a comprehensive peace treaty.
Dec 23, 2014 / Juan Cole
Dancing With Shiva Dancing With Shiva
Shantala Shivalingappa smolders as she dances the lives of the gods.
Dec 23, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
Liberalism Doesn’t Start With Liberty Liberalism Doesn’t Start With Liberty
In Edmund Fawcett’s new history, liberalism begins with capitalism and revolution.
Dec 23, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Katrina Forrester