What the Twin Plagues of ISIS and Ebola Have in Common What the Twin Plagues of ISIS and Ebola Have in Common
Both thrive on the breakdown of the existing social order.
Aug 28, 2014 / John Feffer and Foreign Policy In Focus
Immigrant Rights Advocates Stage Civil Disobedience at the White House Immigrant Rights Advocates Stage Civil Disobedience at the White House
Immigrants and allies rallied in more than a dozen US cities on Thursday to ask President Obama to use his executive authority to stop deportations of undocumented workers and thei...
Aug 28, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
Black Millennials Are Emerging as the ‘Movement Generation’ Black Millennials Are Emerging as the ‘Movement Generation’
If you’re asking the question “Where is the movement?” you simply haven’t been paying attention.
Aug 28, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Alison Lundergan Grimes: Secret Koch Conference Recording Is Mitch McConnell’s ‘47 Percent Moment’ Alison Lundergan Grimes: Secret Koch Conference Recording Is Mitch McConnell’s ‘47 Percent Moment’
McConnell and his opponent respond to secret recordings—obtained by the The Nation—of McConnell speaking to a roomful of millionaires and billionaires.
Aug 28, 2014 / Press Room
The ‘Washington Post’ Op-Ed Page Wants More War (Again) The ‘Washington Post’ Op-Ed Page Wants More War (Again)
Eric on this week's concerts and Reed on The Washington Post's call for war.
Aug 28, 2014 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
A Kentucky Objection to McConnell’s Pandering to Millionaires and Billionaires A Kentucky Objection to McConnell’s Pandering to Millionaires and Billionaires
A secret tape of a senator at a Koch brothers event becomes an issue in a key Senate race.
Aug 28, 2014 / John Nichols
Stephen Cohen: Kiev Intensifies Mortar Attacks in Eastern Ukraine Stephen Cohen: Kiev Intensifies Mortar Attacks in Eastern Ukraine
Stephen Cohen has the latest analysis of the situation in Ukraine.
Aug 28, 2014 / Stephen F. Cohen
Puzzling Women Puzzling Women
Where are the female constructors?
Aug 28, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Why the ‘Unhiring’ of Steven Salaita Is a Threat to Academic Freedom Why the ‘Unhiring’ of Steven Salaita Is a Threat to Academic Freedom
Under the spurious claim of protecting “civility,” the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has caved in to the McCarthyite bullying of the Israel lobby.
Aug 27, 2014 / David Palumbo-Liu
How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism
A host of new groups are reviving the grassroots fight for racial equality.
Aug 27, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith