Five Fears About ’42’ Five Fears About ’42’
If the new Jackie Robinson biopic follows standard Hollywood procedure, here's the complicated legacy it'll whitewash.
Apr 1, 2013 / Blog / Dave Zirin
Democratic Majority Is Not Demographic Inevitability (Part the Last: Do Something!) Democratic Majority Is Not Demographic Inevitability (Part the Last: Do Something!)
Ultimately, whether a party cements its gains depends not on demographics but performance.
Apr 1, 2013 / Blog / Rick Perlstein
This Week: Deliberating on DOMA and Prop 8 This Week: Deliberating on DOMA and Prop 8
A watershed moment for marriage equality—and Tony Kushner’s moving essay nearly two decades ago: Introducing The Nation Archive!
Mar 30, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Shocking Rahm’s Shock Doctrine Shocking Rahm’s Shock Doctrine
Mayor Emanuel’s flash school-closing announcement is meeting civil disobeidence from Chicago teachers—who are having no trouble poking gaping holes in every one of the city’s argum...
Mar 29, 2013 / Blog / Rick Perlstein
Coming Out of the Shadows in Union Square Coming Out of the Shadows in Union Square
Undocumented youth are taking to public and online spaces to represent themselves—in some cases, without the support of important allies.
Mar 29, 2013 / Blog / Aura Bogado
Why Today’s Argument Could Decide the Gay Marriage Debate Why Today’s Argument Could Decide the Gay Marriage Debate
Hollingsworth v. Perry has a chance of being dismissed without a ruling, leaving a better case to serve as the vehicle for the court's opinion on marriage.
Mar 29, 2013 / Blog / Nan D. Hunter
Is ‘Game of Thrones’ Escapist Enough? Is ‘Game of Thrones’ Escapist Enough?
We need escapist fantasies like Game of Thrones. But what’s it doing to our revolutionary imagination?
Mar 29, 2013 / Blog / Michelle Dean
Dave Zirin: What’s to Love About Baseball? Dave Zirin: What’s to Love About Baseball?
Baseball is neither poor, nasty, brutish nor short—at least, if sports fans have their way.
Mar 29, 2013 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Propaganda Propagation Propaganda Propagation
A column arguing that a liberal foundation outspent the Koch brothers disproves its own assertion in a disclaimer—which conveniently gets forgotten when the initial claim is ...
Mar 28, 2013 / Blog / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
‘We Were Handcuffing Kids For No Reason’: Stop-And-Frisk Goes On Trial ‘We Were Handcuffing Kids For No Reason’: Stop-And-Frisk Goes On Trial
At the same time that Brooklyn residents poured into the streets over the killing of Kimani Gray, NYPD officers took the stand to describe the department's racist tactics.
Mar 28, 2013 / Ryan Devereaux