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
How Drones Turned American Wars Into Manhunts and Humans Into Prey How Drones Turned American Wars Into Manhunts and Humans Into Prey
The remote-controlled hunting of human beings has become standard practice in American warfare.
Apr 7, 2015 / Grégoire Chamayou
What Can Stop the Ongoing Assault on Black Families? What Can Stop the Ongoing Assault on Black Families?
Through a shared desire to balance a critique of racism with a call for personal responsibility, liberals and conservatives have been united in looking with exasperation at the bla...
Apr 7, 2015 / Dani McClain
The Absurdly Rational Logic of Wages for Wives The Absurdly Rational Logic of Wages for Wives
A radical re-evaluation of caregiving work—proposed in The Nation in 1926—is still potent today.
Apr 7, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Radical Histories: From Helen Gurley Brown to the Criminalization of Pregnancy Radical Histories: From Helen Gurley Brown to the Criminalization of Pregnancy
The feminist movement surges into public consciousness, but backlash to basic freedoms never goes away.
Apr 7, 2015 / The Nation
US Soldiers and Contractors Accused of Sexually Abusing Children in Colombia Between 2003 and 2007 US Soldiers and Contractors Accused of Sexually Abusing Children in Colombia Between 2003 and 2007
What the media don’t cover when Colombian women are raped by members of the US military.
Apr 7, 2015 / Greg Grandin