El Salvador Votes for Water Over Gold El Salvador Votes for Water Over Gold
Against overwhelming odds, an international grassroots campaign has won the world’s first comprehensive ban on metals mining.
Apr 4, 2017 / Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
Fifty Years Later, King’s Warning Still Resonates Fifty Years Later, King’s Warning Still Resonates
It is time to revive a peace and justice movement calling for the United States to stop its endless wars and turn its resources and attention to rebuilding our own country.
Apr 4, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘A Society Gone Mad on War’: The Enduring Importance of Martin Luther King’s Riverside Speech ‘A Society Gone Mad on War’: The Enduring Importance of Martin Luther King’s Riverside Speech
Fifty years ago today, the civil-rights leader described the nightmare to come: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of...
Apr 4, 2017 / Eric Tang
Police Arrested This Cop Watch Activist—But Then Recorded Themselves by Accident Police Arrested This Cop Watch Activist—But Then Recorded Themselves by Accident
The activist, Jose LaSalle, used a set of apps to record the police, and has shared those recordings with The Nation.
Apr 3, 2017 / George Joseph
How You Can Join the International Women’s Strike on March 8 How You Can Join the International Women’s Strike on March 8
Strike, march, plug into local campaigns, or find your own way of getting involved.
Mar 1, 2017 / no-paywall / NationAction
Has Spain’s Podemos Party Squandered Its Prospects? Has Spain’s Podemos Party Squandered Its Prospects?
While the Madrid-based leadership has been mired in factional infighting, regional representatives and allies offer inspiring alternatives.
Mar 1, 2017 / Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín
Progressives Need to Build Their Own Media Progressives Need to Build Their Own Media
Trump would not be president today were it not for the help of Fox, Breitbart, Limbaugh, & Co.
Mar 1, 2017 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
Trump’s Machismo vs. Sweden’s ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’ Trump’s Machismo vs. Sweden’s ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’
Investing in women and girls does much more to keep us safe and promote peace than does spending even greater amounts on weapons designed to cause mass devastation.
Feb 28, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A People’s Globalism: Notes Toward a New Left Internationalism A People’s Globalism: Notes Toward a New Left Internationalism
Three writers consider the major foreign-policy questions facing the left today.
Feb 16, 2017 / That’s Debatable / Michael Walzer, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, and Jedediah Britton-Purdy
It’s Time for the Congressional Progressive Caucus to Raise Its Game It’s Time for the Congressional Progressive Caucus to Raise Its Game
The CPC must move from being the conscience of the Democratic caucus to being its captain, from defining the alternative to defining the agenda.
Feb 8, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel