How Bernie Sanders Is Challenging a Downsized Politics of Excluded Alternatives How Bernie Sanders Is Challenging a Downsized Politics of Excluded Alternatives
Why we need a grown-up conversation about taxes.
Feb 2, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Fight for 15 in Iowa The Fight for 15 in Iowa
A platform built on workers’ stories rather than political rhetoric will keep the movement alive long past Election Day.
Feb 1, 2016 / Michelle Chen
What’s Life Like in America’s First City With a Muslim-Majority City Council? What’s Life Like in America’s First City With a Muslim-Majority City Council?
While the media highlight “conflict,” residents say there’s not much ethnic tension worth mentioning.
Feb 1, 2016 / Tom Perkins
Freedom From Ammon Bundy Freedom From Ammon Bundy
With the occupation quickly unraveling, there are outstanding questions about the death of one occupier and the future of Harney County.
Jan 29, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Sports Taught America That ‘Bigotry Is Not a Cool Thing’ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Sports Taught America That ‘Bigotry Is Not a Cool Thing’
The sports legend sits down with The Nation’s Dave Zirin.
Jan 29, 2016 / Video / The Nation
In a Gay-Friendly Age, Poor LGBT New Yorkers Still Struggle In a Gay-Friendly Age, Poor LGBT New Yorkers Still Struggle
Marriage equality is progress, but the LGBT movement needs to tackle economic oppression as well if it is to achieve broader equality.
Jan 29, 2016 / Michelle Chen
How the EPA Has Failed to Challenge Environmental Racism in Flint—and Beyond How the EPA Has Failed to Challenge Environmental Racism in Flint—and Beyond
Since the early 1990s, the agency has received over 300 discrimination complaints. It’s never once issued a formal finding of a violation.
Jan 28, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
How Populists Like Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Racism How Populists Like Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Racism
To mobilize a multiracial coalition, progressives need to demonstrate how racism hurts us all.
Jan 28, 2016 / Feature / Ian Haney López and Heather McGhee
After I Lived in Norway, America Felt Backward. Here’s Why. After I Lived in Norway, America Felt Backward. Here’s Why.
A crash course in social democracy.
Start Making Sense: Frank Rich on How the GOP Is Learning to Live With Donald Trump Start Making Sense: Frank Rich on How the GOP Is Learning to Live With Donald Trump
Plus Bill McKibben on climate change, and Anna Deavere Smith on Baltimore.
Jan 28, 2016 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener