What the Climate Movement Can Learn from the Neoliberal Coup What the Climate Movement Can Learn from the Neoliberal Coup
With its strategy and our moral compass, the climate movement could be unstoppable.
Aug 19, 2016 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin
This Town Is Sick of Drinking Polluted Water This Town Is Sick of Drinking Polluted Water
In one of Alabama’s poorest and most segregated regions, activists are demanding their right to clean water.
Aug 19, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Krista Tippett: Speaking of Faith Krista Tippett: Speaking of Faith
In a new book, the host of NPR’s On Being tries to formulate a unified theory of secular spirituality.
Aug 19, 2016 / Michele Moses
Inequality Has Gotten So Bad That We’re Offshoring Our Grandparents Inequality Has Gotten So Bad That We’re Offshoring Our Grandparents
Americans can’t afford to retire in the United States, so many are moving south of the border, trading one form of inequity for another.
Aug 19, 2016 / Katherine Stewart
The Justice Department Will End All Federal Private Prisons, Following a ‘Nation’ Investigation The Justice Department Will End All Federal Private Prisons, Following a ‘Nation’ Investigation
Our yearlong probe uncovered dozens of questionable deaths and years of dire warnings from internal monitors.
Aug 18, 2016 / Seth Freed Wessler
Voters Are Ready to Punish Pro-Gun Politicians. There’s Just One Problem. Voters Are Ready to Punish Pro-Gun Politicians. There’s Just One Problem.
Voters don’t seem to know where key senators actually stand on background checks.
Aug 18, 2016 / George Zornick
Ryan Lochte Is One of Many Privileged First-World Tourists—and Brazilians Are Fed Up Ryan Lochte Is One of Many Privileged First-World Tourists—and Brazilians Are Fed Up
He seems to believe in the old imperial axiom that “there is no sin below the equator.”
Aug 18, 2016 / Dave Zirin
Trump’s Speech on Terrorism Was an Inexcusable Exercise in Scapegoating and Scaremongering Trump’s Speech on Terrorism Was an Inexcusable Exercise in Scapegoating and Scaremongering
From ISIS to the Iraq War to immigration—what wasn’t wrong about Trump’s speech.
Aug 18, 2016 / James Carden
The Woman Behind Trump The Woman Behind Trump
Amy Wilentz on Ivanka, plus Calvin Trillin on Mississippi in 1964, and Rosa Brooks on the militarization of everything.
Aug 18, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Meet the ‘Feminists’ Doing the Koch Brothers’ Dirty Work Meet the ‘Feminists’ Doing the Koch Brothers’ Dirty Work
The Independent Women’s Forum has leveraged its “non-partisan” brand to become an aggressive player in Republican politics.
Aug 18, 2016 / Joan Walsh