How Art Inspires Change How Art Inspires Change
The Nation and the Center for Community Change partnered together for an essay contest in which young people were asked to submit a photo they found meaningful and an essay ex...
Sep 17, 2014 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation and Faron Manuel
Scotland’s Referendum on Austerity Scotland’s Referendum on Austerity
A remarkable democratic debate over independence has forced an admission that austerity is a vital, perhaps definitive, issue.
Sep 17, 2014 / John Nichols
Women of Color and the Hidden Trauma of Police Brutality Women of Color and the Hidden Trauma of Police Brutality
Calling out discrimination can be a slippery thing, but the shame, humiliation and powerlessness we feel because of overly aggressive policing is real.
Sep 16, 2014 / Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits? Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?
Talking heads like former General Jack Keane are all over the news media fanning fears of IS. Shouldn’t the public know about their links to Pentagon contractors?
Sep 16, 2014 / Lee Fang
Comix Nation Comix Nation
Sep 16, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow
Snapshot: A Hard Rain in a Changing Climate Snapshot: A Hard Rain in a Changing Climate
Residents of Indian-administered Kashmir struggle against a strong current after incessant rains inundated the region, causing the worst flooding in decades. The floods have caused over 500 deaths, and over 500,000 people have needed to be rescued. Another 75,000 people are still waiting to be rescued a week after the flooding began.
Sep 16, 2014 / Dar Yasin
Climate Change Is a People’s Shock Climate Change Is a People’s Shock
What if, instead of accepting a future of climate catastrophe and private profits, we decide to change everything?
Sep 16, 2014 / Naomi Klein
Whatever Happened to Gun Control? Whatever Happened to Gun Control?
The Newtown tragedy was supposed to change everything about gun politics. Why it didn’t—and how reformers might still win.
Sep 16, 2014 / George Zornick
What Is India? What Is India?
Why India’s boom years have been a bust.
Sep 16, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb
Gordimer’s Way Gordimer’s Way
The Nobel laureate’s short stories are her lasting legacy to the literary world.
Sep 16, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Tony Eprile