A Bold Progressive Vision for the New York City Council (Really!) A Bold Progressive Vision for the New York City Council (Really!)
Council members are working on an agenda that includes labor organizing, public transportation and giving legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections.
Apr 18, 2013 / Brad Lander
Give Me the Bad News First Give Me the Bad News First
Press coverage is hasty, error-prone and frequently depressing—but it nonetheless plays a vital role in our society.
Apr 18, 2013 / Blog / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
How to Beat the Gun Lobby How to Beat the Gun Lobby
The Senate's rejection of universal background checks should be the start of a popular movement to hold our leaders accountable.
Apr 18, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Life in the Cellar Life in the Cellar
New York’s housing crisis has pushed hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers underground.
Apr 18, 2013 / Suketu Mehta
Sexual Assault Survivors Are Telling Their Stories—Are We Listening? Sexual Assault Survivors Are Telling Their Stories—Are We Listening?
As the military finally tackles its sexual assault problem, our society as a whole needs to do the same.
Apr 18, 2013 / Blog / Chloe Angyal
House of Horrors: On Domestic Violence House of Horrors: On Domestic Violence
America's military-masculinity complex is generating violence on a mass scale—at home.
Apr 18, 2013 / Erika Eichelberger
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (4/19/2013) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (4/19/2013)
As Glenn Greenwald and others have written, this week is a time for checking racial stereotypes. Elsewhere from Boston, as this week's Nation intern roundup indicates...
Apr 18, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
The Car-Chasers of Hunts Point The Car-Chasers of Hunts Point
As change nips at the edges of the Bronx, the borough’s iconic auto-glass workers continue their daily street-dance.
Apr 17, 2013 / Charles Rice-González
The Borough That New York Forgot The Borough That New York Forgot
A writer navigates the empty streets and boarded-up businesses of his childhood.
Apr 17, 2013 / Alex Gilvarry
Shame on the Senate: Gun Control Is Dead, For Now Shame on the Senate: Gun Control Is Dead, For Now
A proposal backed by 90 percent of the American people and a majority of Senators won't become law. Why?
Apr 17, 2013 / Blog / George Zornick