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The Case Against Prisons
Alternatives to imprisonment are working around the world—so why isn’t the United States on board?
Rebecca Gordon
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September 23, 2016
How to Protest Without Offending Anyone
Alternatives for kneeling during the National Anthem, blocking traffic, and more.
Khalid Rahmaan
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September 23, 2016
‘The Nation’ Has New Digs
From our new offices crosstown, we can see not only the Hudson River but a good stretch of our own history.
Richard Kreitner
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September 22, 2016
The Black Panthers’ Overlooked Revolution
Fifty years later, four women who helped build the party look back on the less-attention-grabbing part of its history.
Yohuru Williams and Bryan Shih
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September 22, 2016
A Poet Undone
Poetry defeats poems. Beguiled by this decorous paradox, Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry evades the art’s difficulty and strangeness.
John Palattella
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September 21, 2016
The ‘Chicago Boys’ in Chile: Economic Freedom’s Awful Toll
Repression for the majorities and “economic freedom” for small privileged groups are two sides of the same coin.
Orlando Letelier
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September 20, 2016
Remembering Stanley Sheinbaum, an Early Backer of ‘The Nation’ and a Voice for Peace and Justice
Part of the progressive so-called “Malibu Mafia,” he was a force for change among the left and a vital help to this magazine.
Victor Navasky
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September 20, 2016
How Journalism Can Mend Its Broken Relationship With Young People
If it doesn’t, everybody loses.
Will Anderson
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September 20, 2016
A Part of Denise Riley’s Song
The shadow of ballad meter haunts Riley’s poems, which can never not be a sign of vitality.
Ange Mlinko
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September 19, 2016
Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ Is a Horror Movie—and the Monster Is Our National Security State
For Trump to have these instruments of power would be a catastrophe.
Juan Cole