Wendell Berry on the Kentucky Statehouse Sit-in to Stop Mountaintop Mining Wendell Berry on the Kentucky Statehouse Sit-in to Stop Mountaintop Mining
A harmful coal extraction technique has sparked a growing movement across the central Appalachian region.
Feb 15, 2011 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Slide Show: The Nation Celebrates Black History Month Slide Show: The Nation Celebrates Black History Month
The Nation’s editors—from its abolitionist founders to the present—have always provided space for those persistent and too-often lonely voices inveighing against the evils of racial injustice. In this archival slide show, we present a small sampling of the many timeless articles highlighting issues of race and civil rights from The Nation’s past 146 years.
Feb 14, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
On Civil Liberties, War, Crony Capitalism: Ron Paul Is Saying Some Things Democrats Should Be Saying On Civil Liberties, War, Crony Capitalism: Ron Paul Is Saying Some Things Democrats Should Be Saying
Paul is wrong about a lot of things. But his willingness to defend civil liberties without apology, to criticize dictators and the US policies that support them, to call for b...
Feb 14, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Marking Black History Month Marking Black History Month
To mark Black History Month, here's a list of groups working to confront the persistent and pernicious stain of racism.
Feb 14, 2011 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Valentine’s Message: Home Is Where the Heart Is Valentine’s Message: Home Is Where the Heart Is
Tenant leaders around the country unite for Valentine's Day demonstrations and direct actions against cuts to Housing and Urban Development programs.
Feb 14, 2011 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama and Egypt’s Revolution Obama and Egypt’s Revolution
It was the strength of the Egyptian people who brought down Mubarak and Obama made it clear that it was Egypt, not the US, which would decide Egypt's future.
Feb 14, 2011 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
Saudi Arabia’s Fear of Egypt Saudi Arabia’s Fear of Egypt
The Saudis are nervous. And they should be. They're a wealthy gated community next to a teeming slum. And the slum dwellers are angry.
Feb 13, 2011 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
Ramona Steps Down Ramona Steps Down
Ramona Ripston, who is stepping down after forty years as the head of the ACLU of Southern California, transformed the meaning of civil liberties.
Feb 11, 2011 / Jon Wiener
Calling Out the Climate Cranks Calling Out the Climate Cranks
It’s time to unmask those who are holding our nation's climate policy hostage.
Feb 11, 2011 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Credit Obama, Not the Bush Administration, for Seeds of the Egyptian Revolution Credit Obama, Not the Bush Administration, for Seeds of the Egyptian Revolution
The Egypt pro-democracy movement has much more in common with the grassroots, bottom-up Obama campaign than the Bush admininistration's barrel of a gun “freedom agenda.&rdquo...
Feb 11, 2011 / The Notion / Ari Berman