How the Obama Administration Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb How the Obama Administration Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
US nuclear policy is undermining our safety and national security.
Dec 10, 2014 / Feature / Theodore A. Postol
Is Racial Justice Possible in America? Is Racial Justice Possible in America?
We need law and policing reform, but first we have to want to end state-sanctioned violence against African-Americans.
Dec 10, 2014 / Feature / David Dante Troutt
To Save the Planet, We Need to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground—but Oil Companies Have Other Plans To Save the Planet, We Need to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground—but Oil Companies Have Other Plans
They say no to any “stranded assets.”
Dec 10, 2014 / Feature / William D. Cohan
The State Where Giving Birth Can Be Criminal The State Where Giving Birth Can Be Criminal
Tennessee is arresting new mothers for having used drugs in pregnancy—but in a cruel Catch-22, many can’t get the treatment they need.
Dec 10, 2014 / Feature / Rosa Goldensohn and Rachael Levy
Remembering Mario Savio, ‘Freedom’s Orator’ Remembering Mario Savio, ‘Freedom’s Orator’
The man who helped spark Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement fifty years ago would have championed today’s activism, from the Dreamers to Occupy to Ferguson.
Dec 10, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden
The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia
Renditions, an underground prison and a new CIA base are elements of an intensifying US war, according to a Nation investigation in Mogadishu.
Dec 10, 2014 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
How David Brock Built an Empire to Put Hillary in the White House How David Brock Built an Empire to Put Hillary in the White House
The Clintons’ former nemesis created an apparatus to fend off their enemies—right and left.
Nov 25, 2014 / Feature / Michelle Goldberg
A Hawk Named Hillary A Hawk Named Hillary
As her record shows, Clinton has embraced destructive nationalist myths about America’s role in the world.
Nov 25, 2014 / Feature / Anatol Lieven
Who’s Ready for Hillary? Who’s Ready for Hillary?
Depending on whom you ask, Clinton is a triangulating pro-corporate Democrat or a heroic shatterer of glass ceilings—or both.
Nov 24, 2014 / Feature / Kathleen Geier, Joan Walsh, Jamelle Bouie, Doug Henwood, Heather Digby Parton, Steven Teles, and Richard Yeselson
Democrats: The Party of Pablum Democrats: The Party of Pablum
How else can we explain voters who chose Mitch McConnell senators and Elizabeth Warren policies?
Nov 11, 2014 / Feature / John Nichols