The Enduring Shame of ‘Separate and Unequal’ The Enduring Shame of ‘Separate and Unequal’
The unrest in Baltimore is about more than a single death—it’s about the structural racism, inequality, and poverty that have plagued our society for too long.
May 5, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
5 Tools the Police Are Using in Their War Against Activists 5 Tools the Police Are Using in Their War Against Activists
From Ferguson to Baltimore, the message is clear: protest at your peril.
May 5, 2015 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky
Helpful Responses to Baltimore Helpful Responses to Baltimore
Helpfulness not guaranteed.
May 5, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow
Carly Fiorina Is Running to Be 2016’s Sarah Palin Carly Fiorina Is Running to Be 2016’s Sarah Palin
Conservatives say they hate identity politics, but they practice a particularly crude version of them.
May 4, 2015 / Michelle Goldberg
When It Comes to Drone Body Counts, Whose Body Counts? When It Comes to Drone Body Counts, Whose Body Counts?
From Vietnam to Pakistan, the business of counting deaths by American hands has never been simple math.
May 4, 2015 / Tom Engelhardt
At Least 240,000 People Want to Cancel All Student Debt At Least 240,000 People Want to Cancel All Student Debt
A coalition including Coalition for America's Future, Daily Kos, Student Debt, and The Nation delivered a petition to Elizabeth Warren calling for the cancelation of all studen...
May 4, 2015 / Nadia Kanji
Privacy and the Profit Motive Privacy and the Profit Motive
The fallout from the Edward Snowden fiasco wasn’t just political—it was largely economic.
May 4, 2015 / Lawrence Cappello
May 2, 1972: J. Edgar Hoover Dies May 2, 1972: J. Edgar Hoover Dies
"Hoover was not only the nation’s police chief; he filled a far more important post—he was its minister of internal security, an office of tremendous, if unacknowledged, power."
May 2, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
We’re Living Through a Geopolitical Transition We’re Living Through a Geopolitical Transition
"These are really historic times, and the epicenter is Ukraine."
May 1, 2015 / Stephen F. Cohen
‘And the Youth Shall Lead!’ Ten Voices From a Generational Moment ‘And the Youth Shall Lead!’ Ten Voices From a Generational Moment
In Baltimore and beyond, a generational uprising.
May 1, 2015 / StudentNation / StudentNation