NBC’s Farcical Commander-in-Chief Forum NBC’s Farcical Commander-in-Chief Forum
This was a big missed opportunity for the network—and for voters.
Sep 8, 2016 / James Carden
Letters From the September 26-October 3, 2016, Issue Letters From the September 26-October 3, 2016, Issue
Strength in weekness… Making herstory?… Private pain, public shame… Departure from the norm?… To The Nation, with love…
Sep 8, 2016 / Letters / Our Readers
Cyber Hacks: The Washington Post’s Baseless Crusade Against Russia Cyber Hacks: The Washington Post’s Baseless Crusade Against Russia
If you’re going to point the finger of blame at one country in particular you should have more, you know, proof.
Sep 7, 2016 / James Carden
More Lost Opportunities to Diminish the New Cold War More Lost Opportunities to Diminish the New Cold War
Obama rejects a partnership with Russia against ISIS in Syria and reneges on his own proposals to reduce nuclear dangers while Ukraine’s President Poroshenko reneges on an agreemen...
Sep 7, 2016 / Audio / Stephen F. Cohen
What the 21st Century Has Done to Our News What the 21st Century Has Done to Our News
Thanks, Twitter.
Sep 6, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow
The Burkini Ban Represents Everything That Is Wrong About France’s Approach to Minorities The Burkini Ban Represents Everything That Is Wrong About France’s Approach to Minorities
The country’s militant secularism treats otherness as a temporary phase on the road to assimilation.
Sep 2, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Notes From Many Years Notes From Many Years
Helen Gurley Brown’s ideas about women were often as retrograde as the ones she claimed to fight. Why is she still appealing?
Sep 1, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Madeleine Schwartz
Will Trump’s Poisonous Politics Leave Lasting Damage? Will Trump’s Poisonous Politics Leave Lasting Damage?
The danger in this election is not just that Trump could win. It’s that—win or lose—he could poison our politics for a generation.
Aug 30, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Media Are Doing an Abysmal Job of Covering Donald Trump’s Racism The Media Are Doing an Abysmal Job of Covering Donald Trump’s Racism
Too many outlets have equated Hillary Clinton’s speech documenting Trump’s racism with his baseless accusation that she is a bigot.
Aug 30, 2016 / Joan Walsh
Warren Hinckle’s Truth-to-Power Journalism and Politics Broke the Conventional Wisdom Warren Hinckle’s Truth-to-Power Journalism and Politics Broke the Conventional Wisdom
As the editor of Ramparts, he helped shape the radicalism of the 1960s, and kept on challenging injustice and “professional megabuck politics.”
Aug 26, 2016 / John Nichols