Compassion Is Our New Currency Compassion Is Our New Currency
Notes on 2011’s preoccupied hearts and minds.
Dec 22, 2011 / Rebecca Solnit
When GOP Walks, Dems Must Move From Blame to Fight When GOP Walks, Dems Must Move From Blame to Fight
Unless there’s a blueprint to break the Republican strategy of hostage taking, the Dems will be left trumpeting their own weakness to avoid blame.
Dec 22, 2011 / Ilyse Hogue
Why Ron Paul Is Not the Tea Party Candidate Why Ron Paul Is Not the Tea Party Candidate
Ron Paul may be the purest fiscal conservative, but Tea Partiers have the same concerns about him that other Republicans do: foreign policy and electability.
Dec 22, 2011 / Ben Adler
Russia’s Great December Evolution Russia’s Great December Evolution
Mass demonstrations in Moscow and dozens of other cities have been the most striking display of grassroots activism since the early 1990s.
Dec 22, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Noted. Noted.
Sara Mayeux on Newt Gingrich's attempt to shut down the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Liza Featherstone on the education justice movement and Occupy USA, Jamie Raskin on fosterin...
Dec 22, 2011 / Various Contributors
Remembering Hitchens Remembering Hitchens
“Christopher had a twenty-five-year adventure with The Nation that I hope was as rewarding for him as it was for us, despite the political collisions.”
Dec 22, 2011 / Victor Navasky
Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union? Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union?
Instead of a new era of democracy, disarmament and interdependence, we have had unchecked militarism and economic crisis.
Dec 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Mikhail S. Gorbachev
The Soviet Union’s Afterlife The Soviet Union’s Afterlife
Twenty years later, questions endure about how and why the nation abruptly dissolved.
Dec 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stephen F. Cohen
Back in the USSR Back in the USSR
Ever since 1991, Russians have been looking to the Soviet past for comfort and pride.
Dec 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Vadim Nikitin
The Progressive Honor Roll of 2011 The Progressive Honor Roll of 2011
This holiday season, we celebrate the most inspiring activists, organizations and politicians who are fighting for the 99 percent.
Dec 22, 2011 / Feature / John Nichols