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Why Some People Just Aren’t Buying Glenn Beck’s ‘Evolved’ Politics

Why Some People Just Aren’t Buying Glenn Beck’s ‘Evolved’ Politics Why Some People Just Aren’t Buying Glenn Beck’s ‘Evolved’ Politics

Has Glenn Beck really changed? 

Aug 8, 2014 / Blog / Leslie Savan

Why Has It Taken This Long for a Men’s Pro-Sports Team to Hire a Female Coach?

Why Has It Taken This Long for a Men’s Pro-Sports Team to Hire a Female Coach? Why Has It Taken This Long for a Men’s Pro-Sports Team to Hire a Female Coach?

Becky Hammon will be the first full-time female assistant coach in any major professional men’s sport in the United States.

Aug 7, 2014 / Blog / Dave Zirin

Why Are 50,000 South Sudanese Children on the Brink of Death?

Why Are 50,000 South Sudanese Children on the Brink of Death? Why Are 50,000 South Sudanese Children on the Brink of Death?

A man-made famine in South Sudan is brutal evidence of the limits of American nation-building in Africa.

Aug 7, 2014 / Nick Turse

Why It’s Absolutely No Surprise Mayor de Blasio Is Defending ‘Broken Windows’

Why It’s Absolutely No Surprise Mayor de Blasio Is Defending ‘Broken Windows’ Why It’s Absolutely No Surprise Mayor de Blasio Is Defending ‘Broken Windows’

The de Blasio administration says it supports “broken windows” so long as it is done in a “respectful” manner. But that’s impossible. It is by definit...

Aug 6, 2014 / Blog / Mychal Denzel Smith

How Gender Changes Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’

How Gender Changes Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ How Gender Changes Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’

Reading the economist’s book through a feminist lens reveals the need for a richer array of anti-inequality policies.

Aug 6, 2014 / The Curve / Kathleen Geier, Kate Bahn, Joelle Gamble, Zillah Eisenstein, and Heather Boushey

Could Obama Solve the Immigration Crisis Through Executive Action?

Could Obama Solve the Immigration Crisis Through Executive Action? Could Obama Solve the Immigration Crisis Through Executive Action?

A surprise announcement planned for after Labor Day could stop millions of deportations.

Aug 6, 2014 / Blog / William Greider

What’s Behind the Media’s Ebola Sensationalism?

What’s Behind the Media’s Ebola Sensationalism? What’s Behind the Media’s Ebola Sensationalism?

Ebola is a symbol to the political right of all the Third World horrors that liberals are inviting past the walls of our city on the hill.

Aug 5, 2014 / Blog / Leslie Savan

Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I

Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I

The Nation recognized that US isolation would be tested as never before, but didn’t even consider intervention as a possibility.

Aug 5, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues

The High Price That Surveillance Costs the Press and Our Democracy

The High Price That Surveillance Costs the Press and Our Democracy The High Price That Surveillance Costs the Press and Our Democracy

Eric on this week's concerts and Reed on electronic surveillance. 

Aug 5, 2014 / Blog / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson

Is the Attack on Abortion Rights Backfiring in the South?

Is the Attack on Abortion Rights Backfiring in the South? Is the Attack on Abortion Rights Backfiring in the South?

Alabama’s backdoor abortion ban was just declared unconstitutional. Will this decision send a message to anti-choice legislators elsewhere?

Aug 5, 2014 / Blog / Dani McClain

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