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What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 9/25/14?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 9/25/14? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 9/25/14?

What are interns reading for the week of 9/25/14?

Oct 3, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Former NBA Players Ask: Why Is Barclays Center Hosting Friends of the IDF?

Former NBA Players Ask: Why Is Barclays Center Hosting Friends of the IDF? Former NBA Players Ask: Why Is Barclays Center Hosting Friends of the IDF?

There will be a protest this Tuesday in Brooklyn before a preseason basketball game. It is difficult to comprehend, given his conciliatory approach, that NBA Commissioner Adam Silv...

Oct 3, 2014 / Dave Zirin

Michael Dunn Was Found Guilty—but That’s Not Enough to Ensure Justice in an Unjust World

Michael Dunn Was Found Guilty—but That’s Not Enough to Ensure Justice in an Unjust World Michael Dunn Was Found Guilty—but That’s Not Enough to Ensure Justice in an Unjust World

A guilty verdict does not undo the racist world we live in.

Oct 2, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith

Here’s Everything Wrong With the White House’s War on the Islamic State

Here’s Everything Wrong With the White House’s War on the Islamic State Here’s Everything Wrong With the White House’s War on the Islamic State

The Obama administration’s war plans in Iraq and Syria are illegal, ill-conceived and destined to fail. Here’s what the US—and you—can do instead.

Oct 2, 2014 / Peter Certo and Foreign Policy In Focus

Which Cable Network Nearly Skipped Out on Climate Week?

Which Cable Network Nearly Skipped Out on Climate Week? Which Cable Network Nearly Skipped Out on Climate Week?

CNN’s climate change coverage almost disappeared like Malaysian Flight 370.

Oct 2, 2014 / Leslie Savan

10 ‘Nation’ Articles on the Roosevelts, From TR’s Early Days to Eleanor’s Death

10 ‘Nation’ Articles on the Roosevelts, From TR’s Early Days to Eleanor’s Death 10 ‘Nation’ Articles on the Roosevelts, From TR’s Early Days to Eleanor’s Death

Contemporaneous accounts of the Roosevelts ranging over seventy years.

Oct 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

A League of Our Own A League of Our Own

The wordplay of the National Puzzlers’ League

Oct 2, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Don’t Fall for the GOP’s Over-the-Counter Contraception Racket

Don’t Fall for the GOP’s Over-the-Counter Contraception Racket Don’t Fall for the GOP’s Over-the-Counter Contraception Racket

Calls for the pill to be available without a prescription are just naked attempts to woo female voters and mask opposition to the Obamacare birth control mandate.

Oct 2, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: How the Koch Brothers Are Molding the Next Scott Walkers

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: How the Koch Brothers Are Molding the Next Scott Walkers EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: How the Koch Brothers Are Molding the Next Scott Walkers

At a June, Koch-organized summit, Arizona Republican Doug Ducey begged billionaire favor by linking himself to the union-busting Wisconsinite and announcing, “I can't emphasize eno...

Oct 2, 2014 / John Nichols

Why Future Generations Will Ask Where You Were on September 21, 2014

Why Future Generations Will Ask Where You Were on September 21, 2014 Why Future Generations Will Ask Where You Were on September 21, 2014

The People's Climate March proves the climate movement has reached critical mass, like the civil rights movement, antiwar, feminist and gay movements before it.

Oct 2, 2014 / Todd Gitlin

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