Why It’s Legal When the US Does It Why It’s Legal When the US Does It
How the United States military has become a global police force for the superrich and superpowerful.
Feb 4, 2013 / Noam Chomsky
‘The Blackout Bowl,’ or ‘The Most Depressing Super Bowl Column You’ll Read’ ‘The Blackout Bowl,’ or ‘The Most Depressing Super Bowl Column You’ll Read’
The Super Bowl's thirty-four-minute blackout was a moment that says so much about the USA in the twenty-first century.
Feb 4, 2013 / Dave Zirin
Skeeters Bit by Image of President Who Opposes Violence—Not the Second Amendment Skeeters Bit by Image of President Who Opposes Violence—Not the Second Amendment
One picture might just speak a thousand words about Obama's balance stance on gun safety.
Feb 4, 2013 / John Nichols
Ed Koch and the Cost of the Closet Ed Koch and the Cost of the Closet
There is a special place reserved for the late New York City mayor in gay hell.
Feb 2, 2013 / Richard Kim
Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: ‘Survivalism’ Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: ‘Survivalism’
Today’s culture of “doomsday preppers,” suddenly now much in the news, runs back in a line of continuity back to the days of the Kennedy administration.
Feb 2, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
This Week: Movements Making Noise. Plus: Super Bowl XLVII This Week: Movements Making Noise. Plus: Super Bowl XLVII
A weekly roundup from The Nation's editor and publisher.
Feb 2, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What’s Next For the Voting Rights Movement? What’s Next For the Voting Rights Movement?
Voter suppression efforts in Virginia and Florida have galvinated activists to fight harder to protect--and expand--the vote in 2016.
Feb 1, 2013 / Brentin Mock
Comments of the Week: Chuck Hagel, Homelessness and the Criminalization of Youth of Color Comments of the Week: Chuck Hagel, Homelessness and the Criminalization of Youth of Color
Our readers sound off on Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing, homelessness in the United States and the routine criminalization of youth of color.
Feb 1, 2013 / Sarah Arnold
Dispatches from the US Student Movement: Feb. 1 Dispatches from the US Student Movement: Feb. 1
This week, students host convergences, boycott standardized tests and chain themselves to a potted tree. Can need-blind admissions be saved at Wesleyan? After Adios Arpaio, what...
Feb 1, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
A Big Day for Obamacare A Big Day for Obamacare
The administration largely protected universal contraception coverage, but also made it harder for millions of familes to get health insurance.
Feb 1, 2013 / George Zornick