It Begins: 4 LGBT Activists Arrested in Russia for Quoting the Olympic Charter It Begins: 4 LGBT Activists Arrested in Russia for Quoting the Olympic Charter
Athletes are going to need to ally with four people we can now call the first political prisoners of this Olympiad.
Feb 7, 2014 / Dave Zirin
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/7/2014? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/7/2014?
This week: Philip Seymour Hoffman and addiction, gentrification's aesthetics and a GMO battle in Hawaii.
Feb 6, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Skip Meals or Go to Jail? How the For-Profit Probation Industry Preys on the Poor Skip Meals or Go to Jail? How the For-Profit Probation Industry Preys on the Poor
Human Rights Watch finds that private probation companies are fostering a new form of debtors’ prisons.
Feb 6, 2014 / Steven Hsieh
Stand With the Girl Scouts Stand With the Girl Scouts
The right-wing “CookieCott” is about a lot more than Thin Mints.
Feb 6, 2014 / John Nichols
The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters
It's increasingly clear that the online world is, for both government surveillance types and corporate sellers, a new Wild West where anything goes.
Feb 6, 2014 / Pratap Chatterjee
Beyond Belief Beyond Belief
Conservative religious thinkers and their intellectual crusades.
Feb 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
This Band Billed the Pentagon $666,000 for Using Its Music to Torture GITMO Prisoners This Band Billed the Pentagon $666,000 for Using Its Music to Torture GITMO Prisoners
Industrial rock band Skinny Puppy doesn't want its music to be used "as a weapon."
Feb 5, 2014 / Steven Hsieh
Dave Zirin: Controversy Surrounds the 2014 Sochi Olympics Dave Zirin: Controversy Surrounds the 2014 Sochi Olympics
Samantha Retrosi and Dave Zirin appear on Democracy Now! just two days before the opening ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Olympics.
Feb 5, 2014 / Press Room
The Teacher Commitment That Cannot Be Evaluated With Tests The Teacher Commitment That Cannot Be Evaluated With Tests
When a winter storm gridlocked Georgia, teachers and school employees proved their worth.
Feb 5, 2014 / John Nichols
Would You Want Your 12-Year-Old Child Picking Tobacco? Would You Want Your 12-Year-Old Child Picking Tobacco?
Fusion and the Nation I-Fund report on the thousands of child farmworkers laboring in American tobacco fields.
Feb 5, 2014 / Press Room