Dean Spade: Why the Law Is Not Enough Dean Spade: Why the Law Is Not Enough
Our civil rights discourse must address the ways our institutions systemically oppress certain communities.
Dec 20, 2012 / Video / Laura Flanders
Dan Inouye’s Epic Civil Rights Championship Dan Inouye’s Epic Civil Rights Championship
No senator fought longer and harder for the rights of people of color, people with disabilities, women and the LGBT community.
Dec 18, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols
Rupert Murdoch and the ‘Jewish Owned Press’ Rupert Murdoch and the ‘Jewish Owned Press’
The Fox News owner resorted to an anti-Semitic canard in attacking alleged media bias against Israel.
Nov 28, 2012 / Column / Eric Alterman
Motives and Apprehensions: On Edward P. Jones Motives and Apprehensions: On Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones’s characters know that everything they’ve worked for might suddenly be taken from them.
Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
Chicken Wire and Telephone Calls: On Robert Caro’s LBJ Chicken Wire and Telephone Calls: On Robert Caro’s LBJ
In The Passage of Power, Robert Caro shows that LBJ’s brilliance as a politician lay not in his idealism but his opportunism.
Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney
Colleges’ Elitist Legacy Preference Colleges’ Elitist Legacy Preference
In university admissions, why are we preferencing the already-privileged?
Nov 20, 2012 / StudentNation / Scott Stern
Rinku Sen: ‘We Are the Majority and We Demand Justice’ Rinku Sen: ‘We Are the Majority and We Demand Justice’
As we saw in this election, people of color can no longer be called "minorities." It's time to seize that power in the fight for true equality.
The Modern GOP Thrives on Lee Atwater’s Strategy of Coded Racism The Modern GOP Thrives on Lee Atwater’s Strategy of Coded Racism
In the recent election cycle, the GOP played to racial anxieties the same way Lee Atwater did two decades ago.
Nov 16, 2012 / Nation in the News / Press Room
The Real Loser of 2012: White Supremacy The Real Loser of 2012: White Supremacy
In 2012, white supremacy not only lost the election. It was a crucial factor in explaining how Obama won.
Nov 15, 2012 / Editorial / William Greider
The Noble and the Base: Poland and the Holocaust The Noble and the Base: Poland and the Holocaust
Can the two central images of Poland during World War II—a country of heroes and a country of collaborators—ever be combined?
Nov 14, 2012 / Books & the Arts / John Connelly