Is There Freedom After Hip-Hop? Is There Freedom After Hip-Hop?
Hip-hop has influenced nearly every art form today, but has it been able to liberate? Artists, musicians and intellectuals reflect on the past and the future of hip-hop.
May 3, 2007 / The Nation
Heroes in Razorblade City Heroes in Razorblade City
A trio of Portland rappers put their boots to the ground and educate the next generation in the art of socially conscious hip-hop.
May 3, 2007 / The Nation
Discovery/The Nation ’07 Prizewinners Discovery/The Nation ’07 Prizewinners
Four previously unpublished poets are honored as winners of Discovery/The Nation 07, the annual Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of The Unterberg Poetry Center.
May 3, 2007 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Human Rights at Wal-Mart Human Rights at Wal-Mart
How appropriate, this May Day, that Human Rights Watch has just released "Discounting Human Rights: Wal-Mart's Violation of US Workers' Right to Freedom of Association," a detaile...
Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation
Israel’s Winograd Commission blasts Olmert, Peretz, Halutz Israel’s Winograd Commission blasts Olmert, Peretz, Halutz
The Winograd Commission, established by Israeli PM Ehud Olmert to investigate Israel's notably unsuccessful performance in last summer's war against Lebanon, today issued a first ...
Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation
Bad Guys Bad Guys
I hesitate to get into an inter-magazine pissing match, but I just couldn't let this post by The New Republic's James Kirchick go unanswered. Kirchick takes aim at the Nation's la...
Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation
The New Cold War The New Cold War
Doesn't it feel like a new cold war out there? Condi Rice has taken off those dominatrix black boots and slipped into dark cold war terminology: "The idea that somehow 10 interc...
Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation
How Not to Withdraw from Iraq: The Democrats’ Plan How Not to Withdraw from Iraq: The Democrats’ Plan
Before you imagine that the Democrats' plan, just passed by Congress, would actually get U.S. troops out of Iraq, read the fine print. Let's be clear about what it is -- when i...
Apr 30, 2007 / The Nation
Reality Check Reality Check
Want a reality check on the implications of the Supreme Court verdict in Gonzales v. Carhart? Throwing out thirty years of legal precedent, the court declared that Congress has an...
Apr 27, 2007 / The Nation
Enough Mommy Wars and Manifestos Enough Mommy Wars and Manifestos
I'm not going to hold forth on Leslie Bennetts' new book, The Feminine Mistake, because I haven't read it (that hasn't stopped plenty of others in the blogosphere from weighing in...
Apr 26, 2007 / The Nation