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10 Points About College Hoops All-American Marcus Smart’s Pushing a ‘Fan’

10 Points About College Hoops All-American Marcus Smart’s Pushing a ‘Fan’ 10 Points About College Hoops All-American Marcus Smart’s Pushing a ‘Fan’

Why did Marcus Smart push someone in the stands? Let’s unpack a moment that’s roiling the sports world.

Feb 9, 2014 / Blog / Dave Zirin

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Long Battle for Progressive, Humane Immigration Reform

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Long Battle for Progressive, Humane Immigration Reform This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Long Battle for Progressive, Humane Immigration Reform

It’s worth recalling that on the issue of immigration, as on much else, there is little new under the sun.

Feb 8, 2014 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

After an FBI Agent Checked the Wrong Box, a Woman Was Barred From US Entry for 9 Years

After an FBI Agent Checked the Wrong Box, a Woman Was Barred From US Entry for 9 Years After an FBI Agent Checked the Wrong Box, a Woman Was Barred From US Entry for 9 Years

A federal ruling reveals a wrongly checked box landed Rahinah Ibrahim on the TSA's no-fly list.

Feb 7, 2014 / Blog / Steven Hsieh

Metanarrative and the Woody Allen Sex Abuse Case

Metanarrative and the Woody Allen Sex Abuse Case Metanarrative and the Woody Allen Sex Abuse Case

For a lot of commentators on all sides, the stakes far exceed the truth of Dylan Farrow’s accusation itself.

Feb 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Lisa Duggan

It Begins: 4 LGBT Activists Arrested in Russia for Quoting the Olympic Charter

It Begins: 4 LGBT Activists Arrested in Russia for Quoting the Olympic Charter It Begins: 4 LGBT Activists Arrested in Russia for Quoting the Olympic Charter

Athletes are going to need to ally with four people we can now call the first political prisoners of this Olympiad. 

Feb 7, 2014 / Blog / Dave Zirin

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/7/2014?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/7/2014? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/7/2014?

This week: Philip Seymour Hoffman and addiction, gentrification's aesthetics and a GMO battle in Hawaii.

Feb 6, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Skip Meals or Go to Jail? How the For-Profit Probation Industry Preys on the Poor

Skip Meals or Go to Jail? How the For-Profit Probation Industry Preys on the Poor Skip Meals or Go to Jail? How the For-Profit Probation Industry Preys on the Poor

Human Rights Watch finds that private probation companies are fostering a new form of debtors’ prisons.

Feb 6, 2014 / Blog / Steven Hsieh

Stand With the Girl Scouts

Stand With the Girl Scouts Stand With the Girl Scouts

The right-wing “CookieCott” is about a lot more than Thin Mints.

Feb 6, 2014 / Blog / John Nichols

The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters

The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters

It's increasingly clear that the online world is, for both government surveillance types and corporate sellers, a new Wild West where anything goes.

Feb 6, 2014 / Pratap Chatterjee

Beyond Belief

Beyond Belief Beyond Belief

Conservative religious thinkers and their intellectual crusades.

Feb 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann

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