This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Time to Return Earth Day to its Radical Origins This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Time to Return Earth Day to its Radical Origins
The most important day to advocate for the Earth is not April 22nd, but April 23rd.
Apr 23, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Your Government Owes You a Job Your Government Owes You a Job
The federal government can easily afford a job guarantee program, becoming our employer of last resort.
Apr 23, 2014 / Raúl Carrillo
Elizabeth Warren May Not Be Ready to Run for President, but Her Book Is Elizabeth Warren May Not Be Ready to Run for President, but Her Book Is
A Fighting Chance is a poignant, populist book that frames a direction for Democrats.
Apr 23, 2014 / John Nichols
Tracking a Marked Population in the US Borderlands Tracking a Marked Population in the US Borderlands
Along the US-Mexico border, the high-powered cameras are pointed at you and the drones are above you.
Apr 23, 2014 / Todd Miller
Rancher Bundy and His Cows in ‘A Visit to the Big Apple’ Rancher Bundy and His Cows in ‘A Visit to the Big Apple’
All American patriots should have the right to bring their cows to the top of the Empire State Building.
Apr 23, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow
This Modern World This Modern World
Apr 22, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow
Snapshot: Don’t Stop and Smell the Flowers Snapshot: Don’t Stop and Smell the Flowers
A student attempting to smell a magnolia blossom in NYC on Earth Day 1970. Now, teenagers in California are suing six federal agencies under the Public Trust Doctrine for failing to devise a climate change recovery plan. The National Association of Manufacturers has intervened against them. The case now goes to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
Apr 22, 2014 / Spring to Action
Song and Dance Song and Dance
Why a production of Prince Igor was a missed opportunity to call a truce between opera and dance.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
The Brand Is My Business The Brand Is My Business
The only mystery about The Black-Eyed Blonde is when publishing derivative works became original.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Weinman
Money / Talks Money / Talks
O that common verb. Dress me in spatulas put the moon around my neck. Parting air the poet waves a hand, too much lace and I wonder if the trolley’s real, a giant upside-down flying spoon. God and hair I knew you in the Mechanical Age. Now I am someone who gets off and on trains with dads and bags everyday. Look, it’s 4:43 in the afternoon people go home. My mother wore Obsession in the eighties. I smell fire which has no hands, did you hear me? I have no horses now. Someone did not make your sweater, someone didn’t make it who loves you.
Apr 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Nadelberg