
Open Letter to Redskins Owner Dan Snyder: Dear Dan, You Can’t Say You Weren’t Warned Open Letter to Redskins Owner Dan Snyder: Dear Dan, You Can’t Say You Weren’t Warned
Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, will be subject to demonstrations this week in Minneapolis. It is just the latest in a groundswell to change the name.
Nov 4, 2013 / Dave Zirin

John Kerry Is a Terrible Secretary of State John Kerry Is a Terrible Secretary of State
The United States’ top diplomat is a figure of his times (and that’s not a good thing.)
Nov 4, 2013 / Peter Van Buren

Chris Christie’s Bully Politics: ‘I Am Tired of You People’ Chris Christie’s Bully Politics: ‘I Am Tired of You People’
The governor returns to form as election day nears, caught poking a finger at a teacher and shouting vitriol—but this time the teacher is pushing back.
Nov 4, 2013 / John Nichols

Texas Voter ID Law Ensnares Former Speaker of the House, Candidates for Governor, State Judge Texas Voter ID Law Ensnares Former Speaker of the House, Candidates for Governor, State Judge
The latest victim of Texas’s new voter ID law is 90-year-old former Speaker of the House Jim Wright.
Nov 4, 2013 / Ari Berman

Seattle’s ‘Another World Is Both Possible and Necessary’ Campaign Seattle’s ‘Another World Is Both Possible and Necessary’ Campaign
A socialist candidate wins significant support for a “Fund Human Needs, Fight Corporate Greed” message.
Nov 3, 2013 / John Nichols

Remembering Doug Ireland Remembering Doug Ireland
To a young journalist in the early 1980s Doug seemed already to have lived an impossible number of lives.
Nov 2, 2013 / Bruce Shapiro

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Life and Times of Eric Hobsbawm This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Life and Times of Eric Hobsbawm
Ramachandra Guha’s essay in next week’s issue is only the latest in a long line of critical appreciations of the late historian’s work to be published in The Nati...
Nov 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel

WATCH: The Story Behind MLK’s Famous ‘Dream’ Speech WATCH: The Story Behind MLK’s Famous ‘Dream’ Speech
Gary Younge and Mychal Denzel Smith on the misremembering of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most famous speech.
Nov 1, 2013 / The Nation

Food Stamp Cuts: A Bipartisan Scandal Food Stamp Cuts: A Bipartisan Scandal
Friday’s punitive and economically damaging food stamp cuts are much less a result of red-team-versus-blue-team politics, and much more a result of a political process where ...
Nov 1, 2013 / George Zornick

Stop-and-Frisk Is Now in Bill de Blasio’s Hands Stop-and-Frisk Is Now in Bill de Blasio’s Hands
A Federal appeals court has put a stay on crucial reforms to the NYPD’s controversial policy—but will next week’s mayoral election render the stay moot?
Nov 1, 2013 / Emily Jane Goodman