What’s Wrong With the Comcast/Time Warner Merger What’s Wrong With the Comcast/Time Warner Merger
If it’s not blocked, a single corporation will be able to dictate digital communications and media content for decades to come.
Feb 19, 2014 / Editorial / The Editors
Why Woody Allen Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt Why Woody Allen Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt
A society hot for punishment is quick to play judge and jury. But there’s nothing feminist or radical about pretending to know the truth.
Feb 19, 2014 / Carnal Knowledge / JoAnn Wypijewski
Whodunit? Liberals! Whodunit? Liberals!
From celebrity deaths to the crisis of the middle class, it’s all their fault.
Feb 19, 2014 / Column / Eric Alterman
Freelance Stop-and-Shoot Freelance Stop-and-Shoot
The murder of Jordan Davis—like that of Renisha McBride, Trayvon Martin and so many others—reflects a racist culture in which the black body is considered fair game.
Feb 19, 2014 / Beneath the Radar / Gary Younge
Sochi 2014: Where Pussy Riot Gets Whipped by Cossacks Sochi 2014: Where Pussy Riot Gets Whipped by Cossacks
In a sickening display, Putin’s security forces unleash barbarism as a stark warning to others.
Feb 19, 2014 / Blog / Dave Zirin
Sochi Unofficially Bans Protest (Unless You’re an American Homophobe) Sochi Unofficially Bans Protest (Unless You’re an American Homophobe)
The brief detention of Pussy Riot members is only the latest in a series of oppressive arrests at this Olympics.
Katrina vanden Heuvel: An Important Month for Obamacare Katrina vanden Heuvel: An Important Month for Obamacare
The Nation’s editor celebrated the recent successes of the Affordable Care Act in a roundtable on ABC’s This Week.
Feb 18, 2014 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Mychal Denzel Smith: We Live in a ‘Racist Society’ Mychal Denzel Smith: We Live in a ‘Racist Society’
Just by virtue of being born black in America, young men like Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin face violence daily.
Feb 18, 2014 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Jordan Davis and the Refrain of Black Death Jordan Davis and the Refrain of Black Death
Dealing with the deaths of black youths is exhausting, but is the necessary work of undoing American racism.
Feb 18, 2014 / Blog / Mychal Denzel Smith
Edward Snowden Is Not a ‘Traitor’ and Glenn Greenwald Is Not an ‘Accomplice’ Edward Snowden Is Not a ‘Traitor’ and Glenn Greenwald Is Not an ‘Accomplice’
If anything, reporting on the NSA’s overreach has revealed just how dangerous to our freedoms the agency’s surveillance practices really are.
Feb 18, 2014 / Robert Scheer