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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is applauded

We Need to Do More Than Fix the Pipeline to Get Parity for Women in Office We Need to Do More Than Fix the Pipeline to Get Parity for Women in Office

Without Title IX, women athletes would not have had the opportunities that they do today. We need a similar movement for women candidates.

Jun 19, 2015 / Cynthia Terrell

Army Humvees

ISIS Is Using US Military Hardware to Fight the Iraqi Army ISIS Is Using US Military Hardware to Fight the Iraqi Army

And the Pentagon wants to send even more to the country.

Jun 19, 2015 / Andrew J. Bacevich

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Executed June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Executed

“Abroad this execution will be thrown in our faces for a long time to come.”

Jun 19, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

An agent of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction

The Reconstruction-Era Violence Lurking in the Southern Air The Reconstruction-Era Violence Lurking in the Southern Air

An editorial in The Nation’s first issue, 150 years ago, shows the long history leading to yesterday’s attack in Charleston, South Carolina.

Jun 19, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

Prayer circle following Charleston shooting

Charleston’s ‘Mother Emanuel Church’ Has Stared Down Racist Violence for 200 Years Charleston’s ‘Mother Emanuel Church’ Has Stared Down Racist Violence for 200 Years

Bullets will not end a church whose history speaks to its heroic resilience.

Jun 18, 2015 / Dave Zirin

I.F. Stone

June 18, 1989: I.F. Stone Dies June 18, 1989: I.F. Stone Dies

“He combined the meat-and-potatoes moxie of a police reporter, the instinct for precision of a scholar, the question-phrasing skill of a Socrates...and the political philosophy of ...

Jun 18, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

The Charleston Massacre and the Cunning of White Supremacy

The Charleston Massacre and the Cunning of White Supremacy The Charleston Massacre and the Cunning of White Supremacy

He didn’t just target Denmark Vesey’s church—it was the anniversary of Vesey’s suppressed uprising.

Jun 18, 2015 / Greg Grandin

Prayer vigil outside church

A Civil-Rights Champion Was Lost in the Attack on Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church A Civil-Rights Champion Was Lost in the Attack on Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

The church has been linked for centuries to struggles against slavery and segregation and for economic and social justice.

Jun 18, 2015 / John Nichols

How Instagram Made Basketball Fans See Black Dads

How Instagram Made Basketball Fans See Black Dads How Instagram Made Basketball Fans See Black Dads

Players are providing lasting examples of loving relationships with their children that debunk decades of racist narratives about their absence.

Jun 18, 2015 / Jamilah King

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Magic Bullets, Dangerous Shields Katha Pollitt’s clarion essay [“Magic-Bullet Birth Control,” June 8] is a stark indictment of male politicians who want to make pregnancy irreversi…

Jun 18, 2015 / Our Readers

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