Tony Kushner Denied CUNY Honor: His Letter to the Trustees Tony Kushner Denied CUNY Honor: His Letter to the Trustees
Tony Kushner's full letter to the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York—plus, how you can take action on Kushner's behalf.
May 6, 2011 / The Nation
Tony Kushner Denied Honors Over Palestine Tony Kushner Denied Honors Over Palestine
This week, the news hit that Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, perhaps best known for his Angels in America, was being blocked from receiving an honorary degree from ...
May 5, 2011 / Laura Flanders
The Post, Toasted (Again) The Post, Toasted (Again)
Eric takes on the Washington Post, Reed Richardson dives into the Proposition 8 marriage equality battle, and the mail.
May 5, 2011 / Eric Alterman
Help Defeat The ‘No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act’ Help Defeat The ‘No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act’
Extremists in the House are looking to end all insurance coverage for all abortion-related services.
May 5, 2011 / Peter Rothberg
CNBC Hypes Bogus US Debt Rating CNBC Hypes Bogus US Debt Rating
CNBC reports that a ratings agency downgraded America's debt to "C"—without disclosing that a CNBC anchor recently owned the agency.
May 4, 2011 / Mark Ames
Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education
The exploitation of contingent labor, a shrinking middle class, administrative elephantiasis: the turmoil in academia is a microcosm of American society as a whole.
May 4, 2011 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Shut Up and Play? Patriotism, Jock Culture and the Limits of Free Speech Shut Up and Play? Patriotism, Jock Culture and the Limits of Free Speech
Some athletes have dared to buck the patriotic trend, and in the process have learned a tough lesson about the limits of free speech in the jockocracy.
May 4, 2011 / Dave Zirin
An Appeal From Journalists to Iran on World Press Freedom Day An Appeal From Journalists to Iran on World Press Freedom Day
Editors and colleauges of Shane Bauer, a Nation contributor, urge Iran to release him and his friend Josh Fattal.
May 3, 2011 / Richard Kim
The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors
What if, from the beginning, everyone killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars had been buried in a single large cemetery easily accessible to the American public? Would it bring the fig...
May 3, 2011 / Adam Hochschild
Arizona’s Choice Today: Tucson Students Lead New Civil Rights Movement Arizona’s Choice Today: Tucson Students Lead New Civil Rights Movement
Stumbling further into the quagmire of a national public relations disaster, drastic new measures by the Tucson Unified School District officials have turned the “manufacture...
May 3, 2011 / StudentNation / Jeff Biggers