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
From Pride to Freedom Summer to ‘Aycock’ Hall, Students Mass for Racial Justice From Pride to Freedom Summer to ‘Aycock’ Hall, Students Mass for Racial Justice
Across the country, the summer is heating up with youth-led direct action.
Jul 1, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Moral Mondays Has Managed to Go Beyond the Color Line—but Is That So Unprecedented? Moral Mondays Has Managed to Go Beyond the Color Line—but Is That So Unprecedented?
Moral Mondays may seem exceptional, but it is actually part of a long history of interracial political coalitions in the South.
Jun 27, 2014 / Press Room and Melissa Harris-Perry
Seeking Justice—or At Least the Truth—for ‘Comfort Women’ Seeking Justice—or At Least the Truth—for ‘Comfort Women’
A growing global movement is ensuring that if the Japanese government won’t hold itself accountable for its crimes against women, then history will.
Jun 25, 2014 / Christine Ahn and Foreign Policy In Focus