Are Universities Actively Thwarting Efforts to Combat Climate Change? Are Universities Actively Thwarting Efforts to Combat Climate Change?
Just as the world is starting to come to its senses about climate change, universities are strangely obstructing progress.
May 12, 2016 / StudentNation / Benjamin Franta
Dispatch From Rio: An Interview With the Activist Behind the ‘Olympic Anti-Souvenir Shop’ Dispatch From Rio: An Interview With the Activist Behind the ‘Olympic Anti-Souvenir Shop’
The exhibit is meant to highlight the injustices that have arrived along with the summer games.
May 12, 2016 / Dave Zirin
The Anthropocene Truism The Anthropocene Truism
Humans and the environment have never been separable. But what does the idea mean for politics?
May 12, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Katrina Forrester
Michael Ratner, 1943–2016 Michael Ratner, 1943–2016
He pursued justice fearlessly, in the face of daunting odds.
May 11, 2016 / David Cole
The Roots of Today’s Racism and Police Violence, in an ‘Inconceivably Brutal’ Riot 150 Years Ago The Roots of Today’s Racism and Police Violence, in an ‘Inconceivably Brutal’ Riot 150 Years Ago
“The police headed the butchery” in Memphis in May of 1866, The Nation reported at the time, “and occupied themselves in shooting down every colored person, of whatever sex, of who...
May 11, 2016 / Richard Kreitner
Vladimir Putin: The 21st Century’s Greatest Statesman or Its Greatest Threat? Vladimir Putin: The 21st Century’s Greatest Statesman or Its Greatest Threat?
The demonization of Putin seems to answer the question, but is it balanced and factual?
May 11, 2016 / Stephen F. Cohen
How Will Philadelphia’s District Attorney Handle Resentencing Its Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Population? How Will Philadelphia’s District Attorney Handle Resentencing Its Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Population?
Seth Williams says he’s “smart on crime,” but his record says otherwise.
May 11, 2016 / Jessica Pishko
These Grannies Are Helping to Plug the School-to-Military Pipeline at Its Source These Grannies Are Helping to Plug the School-to-Military Pipeline at Its Source
When teachers are underpaid and schools are underserved, why do we pay veterans to encourage young students to join the military?
Don DeLillo’s American Dream Don DeLillo’s American Dream
His recent protagonists dream only of money, except perhaps for the technological advances that will allow them to go on acquiring it indefinitely.
May 11, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Jon Baskin
These Haunting Photos Show the Deadly Absurdity of the US-Mexico Border Wall These Haunting Photos Show the Deadly Absurdity of the US-Mexico Border Wall
A collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and experimental composer Guillermo Galindo captures the austere brutality of the borderlands.
May 11, 2016 / Photo Essay / John Washington