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Can Chris Christie Change the Gun Control Debate?

Can Chris Christie Change the Gun Control Debate? Can Chris Christie Change the Gun Control Debate?

A series of gun bills are sitting on the desk of the New Jersey governor, who likes to project a law-and-order image, but who is ever-mindful of national Republican politics as he ...

Aug 7, 2013 / George Zornick

Katrina vanden Heuvel: House Republicans Are ‘Governing by Sabotage’

Katrina vanden Heuvel: House Republicans Are ‘Governing by Sabotage’ Katrina vanden Heuvel: House Republicans Are ‘Governing by Sabotage’

Nation editor-in-chief Katrina vanden Heuvel spoke on MSNBC’s NOW with Alex Wagner about the Republican Party’s “suicidal course” and argued that the GOP is...

Aug 7, 2013 / Press Room

Reminiscing About ‘The Washington Post’

Reminiscing About ‘The Washington Post’ Reminiscing About ‘The Washington Post’

In the wake of the news that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post, William Greider looks back on the paper’s glory days.

Aug 7, 2013 / William Greider

A Debt-Free College Education

A Debt-Free College Education A Debt-Free College Education

Many students leave school far worse than they arrived: saddled with loans, but with no degree to help them land a job and pay off the debt.

Aug 6, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Jeff Bezos’s Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms

Jeff Bezos’s Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms Jeff Bezos’s Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms

Will Bezos’s interest in changing education policy affect his control of the Post?

Aug 6, 2013 / Lee Fang

Dave Zirin: The Hypocrisy of Major League Baseball

Dave Zirin: The Hypocrisy of Major League Baseball Dave Zirin: The Hypocrisy of Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball—which reaped the financial rewards of the steroids era through feigned naïveté—is now content to scapegoat the players for the current...

Aug 6, 2013 / Press Room

I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours

I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours

The crime of the century.

Aug 6, 2013 / Tom Engelhardt

The NSA Comes Clean

The NSA Comes Clean The NSA Comes Clean

The agency is either looking at you or looking out for you.

Aug 6, 2013 / Tom Tomorrow

Big Media Story Isn’t Bezos and the Post, It’s the RNC Threatening CNN, NBC

Big Media Story Isn’t Bezos and the Post, It’s the RNC Threatening CNN, NBC Big Media Story Isn’t Bezos and the Post, It’s the RNC Threatening CNN, NBC

Rich guys buy newspapers. Often. But when Reince Priebus makes programming demands on major networks, that's a real measure of the corruption of our democratic discourse.

Aug 6, 2013 / John Nichols

Alex Rodriguez and the True Pink Elephant (Elefante Rosa) in the Room

Alex Rodriguez and the True Pink Elephant (Elefante Rosa) in the Room Alex Rodriguez and the True Pink Elephant (Elefante Rosa) in the Room

Any serious discussion about performance enhancing drugs in baseball needs to address the fact that it is Latin American players who are getting caught.

Aug 5, 2013 / Dave Zirin

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