Evangeline Lilly Explains How the Government Tracks You Evangeline Lilly Explains How the Government Tracks You
“The government has turned the Internet we love into something it was never intended to be: a tool for surveilling everyone.”
Oct 17, 2013 / Peter Rothberg
How Congress Just Stuck It to Monsanto How Congress Just Stuck It to Monsanto
Farmers, civil liberties and food safety advocates had worried that a funding resolution would extend the rider, which crippled oversight over GMOs.
Oct 17, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter
Farmworkers Hit NYC to Protest Wendy’s Labor Practices Farmworkers Hit NYC to Protest Wendy’s Labor Practices
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers protests the fast-food company’s refusal to sign on to its fair labor initiative.
Oct 17, 2013 / Aaron Miguel Cantú
Netroots Goes Global Netroots Goes Global
A new wave of online organizations are replicating the MoveOn model across the world.
Oct 16, 2013 / Feature / David Karpf
Praying for Broken Hearts in the GOP Praying for Broken Hearts in the GOP
A hundred and fifty people of faith and furloughed workers marched on the offices of GOP leaders.
Oct 16, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Why Bartolomé de las Casas should have nothing to do with it.
Oct 15, 2013 / Aura Bogado
The Time To Divest: A Response to Harvard President Drew Faust The Time To Divest: A Response to Harvard President Drew Faust
Divestment is a moral and political strategy to expose the reckless business model of the fossil fuel industry that puts our world at risk.
Oct 15, 2013 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin, Hannah Borowsky, and StudentNation
Should It Cost Less to Get Out of Jail if You’re Rich? Should It Cost Less to Get Out of Jail if You’re Rich?
Thanks to the $14 billion commercial bail industry, we have two criminal justice systems: one for the rich and one for the rest of us.
Oct 15, 2013 / NationAction
Eric Schlosser and the Illusion of Nuclear Weapons Safety Eric Schlosser and the Illusion of Nuclear Weapons Safety
A new book explores the alarming threat of accidental nuclear detonations.
Oct 15, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Robert Jervis
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Our Nobel Peace Prize–Winning Writers (and One Editor) This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Our Nobel Peace Prize–Winning Writers (and One Editor)
Former staff editor Emily Greene Balch's 1946 Peace Prize win “recognized how much private citizens can contribute to the conditions for international peace.”
Oct 12, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel