How to Turn a Grueling, Thankless Job Into a Movement How to Turn a Grueling, Thankless Job Into a Movement
The journey one of the first domestic workers’ groups in New York attests to the power of grassroots labor activism and the hurdles that come with it.
Jul 3, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Here’s Something Patriotic You’ll Want to Support Here’s Something Patriotic You’ll Want to Support
Join The Nation and Green America in calling on Congress to pass the Clean Energy Victory Bonds Act of 2014.
Jul 3, 2014 / NationAction
DREAMers in Grad School DREAMers in Grad School
Four states have granted in-state tution to undocumented students, but the higher education pipeline continues to be plagued.
Jul 2, 2014 / StudentNation / Jude Paul Dizon and StudentNation
50 Years After Freedom Summer, America Needs a Revived Movement for Racial Justice 50 Years After Freedom Summer, America Needs a Revived Movement for Racial Justice
There is much to celebrate in Mississippi, and yet America still needs a year of action on voting rights.
Jul 2, 2014 / The Editors
Postcards Post-Stonewall Postcards Post-Stonewall
We can pretend the politics of liberation can be tracked along clearly marked lines, or we can remember that history is like desire.
Jul 2, 2014 / JoAnn Wypijewski
Half a Century After Freedom Summer, It’s Time for America to ‘Earn Our Insurgencies’ Half a Century After Freedom Summer, It’s Time for America to ‘Earn Our Insurgencies’
There is much to celebrate in Mississippi, yet America still needs a year of action on voting rights.
Jul 2, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
When the Republicans Really Were the Party of Lincoln When the Republicans Really Were the Party of Lincoln
What happened to the party that fifty years ago played such a vital role in passing the Civil Rights Act?
Jul 2, 2014 / John Nichols
How the Moral Mondays ‘Fusion Coalition’ Is Taking North Carolina Back How the Moral Mondays ‘Fusion Coalition’ Is Taking North Carolina Back
The state’s rightward lurch mobilized thousands, but the progressive movement behind Moral Mondays has deep, enduring roots.
Jul 2, 2014 / Feature / Dani McClain
Endgame? Endgame?
How the rhetoric of ecoetiquette muddies writing about global warming.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
We Denounced the Israel Lobby Back in 1976 We Denounced the Israel Lobby Back in 1976
Early warnings of an American policy in thrall to the Israeli right.
Jul 1, 2014 / Richard Kreitner