Jobs and Empire Jobs and Empire
The music of Empire is the theology of capitalism.
Apr 8, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Development and Humanitarian Politics Development and Humanitarian Politics
Why debates about community development sidestep the issue of inequality.
Apr 8, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jamie Martin
‘The Nation’ and WILPF: Entwined Histories, Entwined Destinies ‘The Nation’ and WILPF: Entwined Histories, Entwined Destinies
The League’s co-founder, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a Nation staff editor, was known in the magazine’s offices for her habit of “absently nibbling raisins a...
Apr 8, 2015 / Back Issues
April 8, 1935: FDR Forms the Works Progress Administration April 8, 1935: FDR Forms the Works Progress Administration
“Through WPA the unemployed have redeemed the idea of work relief; the ‘boondogglers’ have made good.”
Apr 8, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
Radical Histories: From Sojourner Truth’s ‘Ain’t I A Woman?’ to FDA Approval of the Birth Control Pill Radical Histories: From Sojourner Truth’s ‘Ain’t I A Woman?’ to FDA Approval of the Birth Control Pill
Do you know the key moments in the struggle for gender equality?
Apr 7, 2015 / The Nation
How the ‘Biden Plan’ Will Worsen the Plight of Central American Refugee Children How the ‘Biden Plan’ Will Worsen the Plight of Central American Refugee Children
The vice president is promoting a 2016 budget that deepens the drug-war and free-trade agendas that contributed to the crisis.
Apr 7, 2015 / Laura Carlsen and Foreign Policy In Focus
Rand Paul Loves Big Government Rand Paul Loves Big Government
When it counts, the newest Republican presidential candidate sides with autocrats who thwart local control, democracy and, yes, liberty.
Apr 7, 2015 / John Nichols
Forensic Translation Forensic Translation
Translation is not the art of failure but the art of the possible.
Apr 7, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff
Ralph Nader’s Unanswered Letters to the President Ralph Nader’s Unanswered Letters to the President
His critiques of US policy are sharp, impassioned and true to democratic principles. If only Bush and Obama had bothered to listen.
Apr 7, 2015 / Ralph Nader
Why ‘The Nation’ Has Joined With the ACLU to Sue the NSA Why ‘The Nation’ Has Joined With the ACLU to Sue the NSA
Our intelligence apparatus, operating in the dark.
Apr 7, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel