The Breakdown: On ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal, What Are We Waiting For? The Breakdown: On ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal, What Are We Waiting For?
Last month, the House of Representatives took steps toward repealing the military's discriminatory DADT policy, pending the results of a Pentagon study on the issue. But what impac...
Jun 4, 2010 / Audio / Chris Hayes
Choice v. Freedom? Choice v. Freedom?
The abortion rights cause has suffered by being cut off from the larger story of reproductive and sexual life, which is much more complex than can be captured by either "cho...
Jun 2, 2010 / Blog / Katha Pollitt
When Teen Pregnancy Is No Accident When Teen Pregnancy Is No Accident
We blame girls—but it's the boys who are sabotaging attempts at safer sex, studies suggest.
May 24, 2010 / Lynn Harris
Irony Alert: Another Advocate for Abstinence Quits Congress After His Failure to Abstain is Revealed Irony Alert: Another Advocate for Abstinence Quits Congress After His Failure to Abstain is Revealed
An Indiana congressman had a lot to say about how others should have sex, until he got caught having sex with someone other than his wife.
May 22, 2010 / Blog / John Nichols
Rand Paul: ‘Principled Libertarian’? Not. Rand Paul: ‘Principled Libertarian’? Not.
The Kentucky crackpot wants less regulation on businesses, but more regulation on women's health.
May 22, 2010 / Blog / Katha Pollitt
Pedophilia is Fine, but Hold the Abortion Pedophilia is Fine, but Hold the Abortion
A nun in Phoenix has been ex-communicated after approving a life-saving abortion. What?
May 21, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
What We’ve Become What We’ve Become
Three thousand Americans, imprisoned for being "sexually dangerous," are locked up not for what they've done but for what someone fears they will do.
May 20, 2010 / Editorial / JoAnn Wypijewski
She-Lawyers and Other Improbable Creatures She-Lawyers and Other Improbable Creatures
We're not anxious about whether Elena Kagan is gay. We're anxious about whether she's masculine.
May 20, 2010 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Ain’t That America… Ain’t That America…
"Real America" is nothing more than a state of mind.
May 20, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman
Noted. Noted.
Spring laurels for The Nation, plus Peter Weiss on Rhonda Copeland, and John Nichols on David Obey.
May 13, 2010 / Editorial / The Nation