After Osama bin Laden After Osama bin Laden
The purpose of terrorism is to provoke an irrational response that makes a nation less secure and less free. In the wake of 9/11, America became that place. Can we change course?
May 5, 2011 / The Editors
After Osama bin Laden’s Death, an End to ‘Bad Guys’ After Osama bin Laden’s Death, an End to ‘Bad Guys’
It's time to banish our dangerously-simplified us-versus-them mentality and recognize the world as it is: shot through with suffering and complexity.
May 5, 2011 / Chris Hayes
Noted. Noted.
Jeff Biggers on student protests in Arizona, John Nichols on Canada's New Democratic Party, and Kate Murphy on FAIR's twenty-fifth anniversary.
May 4, 2011 / Various Contributors
Osama’s Assassins Osama’s Assassins
Meet the Special Operations unit that killed Osama bin Laden.
May 4, 2011 / Jeremy Scahill
Osama bin Laden Has Been Killed Osama bin Laden Has Been Killed
All cheered as the president said it. ’Midst cheering, though, some folks said, “Let it Be quite clear right now That some way, somehow, The Donald will try to claim credit.”
May 4, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin
Grace Lee Boggs: The Next American Revolution Grace Lee Boggs: The Next American Revolution
The legendary philosopher, activist and community organizer says that now is the moment for a fundamental change in the United States, one that involves an evolution of humanity.
May 4, 2011 / Palenque Films and Kique Cubero
Gender Trouble Gender Trouble
Transgender people face assaults that run the gamut from physical to emotional. It's past time to resolve our society's discomfort with those outside the gender binary.
May 4, 2011 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Bin Gotten Bin Gotten
The killing of Osama bin Laden was a just and necessary undertaking, but it should not be an occasion for joy.
May 4, 2011 / Column / Eric Alterman
Nation Readers’ Top Ten Protest Songs Nation Readers’ Top Ten Protest Songs
An incomplete list in random order.
May 4, 2011 / The Nation
Egypt After Mubarak Egypt After Mubarak
On campuses, in syndicates and even inside the Muslim Brotherhood—the revolution lives on.