Snapshot: Looking Backward Snapshot: Looking Backward
A Shinto priest at the Meiji shrine in Tokyo bids farewell to 2014. The shrine was visited by Hillary Clinton in 2009 on her first trip abroad representing President Obama as his secretary of state. It is surrounded by 175 acres of evergreen forest.
Jan 7, 2015 / Thomas Peter
Bill de Blasio Is Just Getting Started Bill de Blasio Is Just Getting Started
The former activist and New York public advocate discusses his first year as mayor.
Jan 7, 2015 / Feature / Eric Alterman
America’s Workplaces Are Hostile to Families America’s Workplaces Are Hostile to Families
To fix social problems, we need to stop looking to marriage, and start creating more equitable public policy.
Jan 7, 2015 / Michelle Chen
How Unstable Is the Saudi Petro-Kingdom? How Unstable Is the Saudi Petro-Kingdom?
From plummeting petroleum prices to political unrest, it has been decades since the fortunes of the kingdom were so much in doubt.
Jan 7, 2015 / Juan Cole
Edward Brooke and the Republican Party That Might Have Been Edward Brooke and the Republican Party That Might Have Been
The late senator, who was once considered a vice presidential prospect, tried to prevent the GOP’s lurch to the right.
Jan 7, 2015 / John Nichols
January 7, 1999: The Impeachment Trial of Bill Clinton Begins January 7, 1999: The Impeachment Trial of Bill Clinton Begins
In The Nation Jonathan Schell laid to rest any comparisons between Clinton’s crimes, such as they were, and those of Richard Nixon.
Jan 7, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas. We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas.
In a country that has always used race to justify inequality, ending police brutality is just the start.
Jan 7, 2015 / Feature / Jesse A. Myerson and Mychal Denzel Smith
Do You Think Products Made in China Should Be Called ‘US Exports’? Do You Think Products Made in China Should Be Called ‘US Exports’?
If not, we must stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership before it does more damage to our country.
Jan 7, 2015 / Feature / William Greider
Faith and Suspicion: On Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Lila’ Faith and Suspicion: On Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Lila’
The novelist offers an elegant answer to the question, “What is it to be human?”
Jan 7, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Roxana Robinson
A Conversation With Marilynne Robinson A Conversation With Marilynne Robinson
The novelist talks about liberalism, the language of fiction, and the humanism of John Calvin.
Jan 7, 2015 / Books & the Arts / The Nation