Why Are Liberal Democracies So Bad at Creating Economic Equality? Why Are Liberal Democracies So Bad at Creating Economic Equality?
The “Third Wave” of democracy in the Global South went hand in hand with the spread of policies that hobbled the fight for greater economic equality from the outset.
Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Walden Bello
The Case for Disengagement in the Middle East The Case for Disengagement in the Middle East
It is time to walk away and leave the region to its own bad behavior.
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Kai Bird
Weird Bedfellows Weird Bedfellows
In their defense of “tradition” against the liberating potential of architecture, Prince Charles and Xi Jinping find unlikely common ground.
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
Cuba Libre Cuba Libre
Covering the island has been a central concern for The Nation since the beginning—producing scoops, aiding diplomacy, and pushing for a change in policy.
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Peter Kornbluh
The Jim Crow Holy Land The Jim Crow Holy Land
Our own progress against racism in the United States remains too recent, too fragile and too incomplete to go on abetting apartheid in Israel.
Mar 20, 2015 / Phyllis Bennis and Foreign Policy In Focus
At a Jewish Voice For Peace Conference: This Is What Solidarity Looks Like At a Jewish Voice For Peace Conference: This Is What Solidarity Looks Like
When a Palestinian woman went to this Jewish group’s annual conference, she found a growing movement of Jews and other allies.
Mar 20, 2015 / Nadia Hijab
12 Years After Invading, the US Still Has Its Back Turned on Iraqi Refugees 12 Years After Invading, the US Still Has Its Back Turned on Iraqi Refugees
After waiting years for a decision on their visa applications with no explanation for the delay, nine Iraqis are suing the US government they once worked for.
Mar 20, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Republicans Loved Netanyahu’s Racist Election Tactics Republicans Loved Netanyahu’s Racist Election Tactics
House GOP lauds Netanyahu’s win as "hard-fought and well-earned."
Mar 20, 2015 / Ali Gharib
Stephen Cohen, Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Mearsheimer: Will American Triumphalism Lead Us to a New Cold War? Stephen Cohen, Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Mearsheimer: Will American Triumphalism Lead Us to a New Cold War?
US liberalism and "democracy promotion" are in part to blame for current tensions with Russia.
Mar 20, 2015 / Stephen F. Cohen and Katrina vanden Heuvel