Stephen Cohen: In Kiev, We Can’t Ignore the Fascist Minority Stephen Cohen: In Kiev, We Can’t Ignore the Fascist Minority
This week, Nation contributing editor Stephen Cohen appeared on the John Batchelor Show and The O'Reilly Factor to discuss the geopolitical stakes of the unrest ...
Feb 19, 2014 / Press Room
Where Have All the Lobbyists Gone? Where Have All the Lobbyists Gone?
On paper, the influence-peddling business is drying up. But lobbying money is flooding into Washington, DC, like never before. What’s going on?
What’s Next for the Moral Monday Movement? What’s Next for the Moral Monday Movement?
This multiracial, multi-issue progressive coalition is not only remobilizing in North Carolina—its model of activism is now spreading all over the South.
Feb 19, 2014 / Feature / Ari Berman
What’s Wrong With the Comcast/Time Warner Merger What’s Wrong With the Comcast/Time Warner Merger
If it’s not blocked, a single corporation will be able to dictate digital communications and media content for decades to come.
Feb 19, 2014 / The Editors
Why Woody Allen Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt Why Woody Allen Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt
A society hot for punishment is quick to play judge and jury. But there’s nothing feminist or radical about pretending to know the truth.
Feb 19, 2014 / JoAnn Wypijewski
Whodunit? Liberals! Whodunit? Liberals!
From celebrity deaths to the crisis of the middle class, it’s all their fault.
Feb 19, 2014 / Column / Eric Alterman
Freelance Stop-and-Shoot Freelance Stop-and-Shoot
The murder of Jordan Davis—like that of Renisha McBride, Trayvon Martin and so many others—reflects a racist culture in which the black body is considered fair game.
Feb 19, 2014 / Column / Gary Younge
The Legacy of LBJ The Legacy of LBJ
Some say that the Vietnam War has obscured Johnson's extraordinary domestic accomplishments. —News reports Well, yes, there was that awful war, That he pushed hell for leather. But now, they say, we miss his skill In knocking heads together.
Feb 19, 2014 / Column / Calvin Trillin
How US Aid Fosters Human Rights Violations in the Philippines How US Aid Fosters Human Rights Violations in the Philippines
As the human rights situation has deteriorated, US military aid has ramped up.
Feb 19, 2014 / Vanessa Lucas, Azadeh Shahshahani, and Foreign Policy In Focus
How Pro-Austerity Groups Lost the Deficit Wars How Pro-Austerity Groups Lost the Deficit Wars
A funny thing happened on the way to the fiscal cliff: real people fought back.
Feb 19, 2014 / Mary Bottari