When Did ‘To Serve & Protect’ Become ‘To Seize & Profit?’ When Did ‘To Serve & Protect’ Become ‘To Seize & Profit?’
How police across the country are using civil asset forfeiture to seize people’s houses, cars and cash to make money for their departments.
Oct 29, 2013 / Jesse Lava and Sarah Solon
JPMorgan, Outlaw JPMorgan, Outlaw
Maybe it’s not too big to face criminal charges after all.
Oct 23, 2013 / William Greider
Meet the Medical Company Making $1.4 Billion a Year Off Sick Prisoners Meet the Medical Company Making $1.4 Billion a Year Off Sick Prisoners
In states that use Corizon to provide healthcare in their prisons, medical neglect and abuse run rampant.
Oct 8, 2013 / NationAction
Tell the FCC: Prison Phone Companies Shouldn’t Profit Off Indigent Families Tell the FCC: Prison Phone Companies Shouldn’t Profit Off Indigent Families
Prison phone companies like Global Tel* Link get away with charging prisoners exorbitant rates just to keep in touch with their families. Tell the Federal Communications Commission...
Oct 1, 2013 / NationAction
Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, the New Dissidents? Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, the New Dissidents?
The United States is no Soviet Union—and yet it has set up machinery that satisfies certain tendencies that are in the genetic code of totalitarianism.
Sep 4, 2013 / Jonathan Schell
I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours
The crime of the century.
Aug 6, 2013 / Tom Engelhardt
Help Iraqis and Iraq Veterans Gain the Right to Heal Help Iraqis and Iraq Veterans Gain the Right to Heal
Iraq Veterans Against the War and human rights organizations in both the US and Iraq are collecting signatures for a petition to pressure the Inter-American Commission on Human Rig...
Jul 16, 2013 / The Nation Video
Race at the Supreme Court Race at the Supreme Court
Affirmative action survives, for now, but the Court erects new hurdles for employment discrimination suits.
Jun 24, 2013 / David Cole
INFOGRAPHICS: How the Anti-Prostitution Pledge Hinders AIDS Prevention INFOGRAPHICS: How the Anti-Prostitution Pledge Hinders AIDS Prevention
Recipients of AIDS/HIV funding from the United States may soon be free of the harmful anti-prostitution requirement.
Jun 12, 2013 / Melissa Gira Grant
What Is in Bradley Manning’s Leaks, Anyway? What Is in Bradley Manning’s Leaks, Anyway?
The drama about the leaks shouldn't overwhelm the drama in the leaks themselves
Jun 6, 2013 / Chase Madar