Beltway Foreign Policy Groups to Congress: Stay Out of the Way on Iran! Beltway Foreign Policy Groups to Congress: Stay Out of the Way on Iran!
Congress may lean hawkish but progressive groups in the beltway are throwing their weight behind the White House’s efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement on Iran’s nuc...
Oct 24, 2014 / Eli Clifton
The Gutsy, Radical Journalism of Andy Kopkind, Who Died 20 Years Ago This Week The Gutsy, Radical Journalism of Andy Kopkind, Who Died 20 Years Ago This Week
Definitive assessments of Ronald Reagan and “the warrior state,” plus early looks at Bernie Sanders and Bill Clinton, and zeitgeist-defining essays on “cold war l...
Oct 24, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
Do You Realize How Dangerous It Is to Drive a Taxi? Do You Realize How Dangerous It Is to Drive a Taxi?
Taxi and livery drivers suffer homicide rates twenty to thirty times higher than other occupations.
Oct 24, 2014 / Michelle Chen
The Women’s Equality Party Is a Joke The Women’s Equality Party Is a Joke
Cuomo's creation of the Women’s Equality Party is an attempt to use feminism against the Working Families Party, the real champions of New York’s women.
Oct 24, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg
Mitch McConnell Reminds Everyone He Tried to Privatize Social Security Mitch McConnell Reminds Everyone He Tried to Privatize Social Security
The Senate minority leader also didn’t rule out trying privatization again in the future.
Oct 24, 2014 / George Zornick
Chris Christie’s Latest Terrible Idea: Let GOP Governors Control Voting for 2016 Chris Christie’s Latest Terrible Idea: Let GOP Governors Control Voting for 2016
He wants Republicans controlling the “political apparatus” and the “governmental apparatus” of voting.
Oct 24, 2014 / John Nichols
What Would Bernie Do? What Would Bernie Do?
It’s time to look past the Democratic Party for a truly progressive agenda.
Oct 23, 2014 / William Greider
The Anti-Socialist Origins of Big Data The Anti-Socialist Origins of Big Data
The genesis for the data-driven society of today can be traced to socialist Chile in the 1970s.
Oct 23, 2014 / Greg Grandin
Revealed: A New Ethics Scandal Involving the GOP’s South Dakota Senate Candidate Revealed: A New Ethics Scandal Involving the GOP’s South Dakota Senate Candidate
Documents obtained by The Nation show former Governor Mike Rounds’s campaign manager may have improperly awarded state economic incentives to firms in which he and the candidate he...
Oct 23, 2014 / Lee Fang
The Stealth Campaign to Buy America’s Courts The Stealth Campaign to Buy America’s Courts
With political groups increasingly eager to buy seats on state-level benches, judges are forced to act more like politicians.
Oct 23, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter