Pakistan’s Transgender Community Rises Up Pakistan’s Transgender Community Rises Up
In the wake of changing legal standards recognizing the self-determination of gender identity, transgender Pakistanis are taking steps to live openly.
US Democracy Is Under Attack. These Human Rights Defenders Are Not Backing Down. US Democracy Is Under Attack. These Human Rights Defenders Are Not Backing Down.
The progressives topping the 2022 Nation Honor Roll have refused to give up in the face of overwhelming challenges.
Jan 9, 2023 / Feature / John Nichols
Why the Godfather of Human Rights Is Not Welcome at Harvard Why the Godfather of Human Rights Is Not Welcome at Harvard
Kenneth Roth, who ran Human Rights Watch for 29 years, was denied a fellowship at the Kennedy School. The reason? Israel.
Jan 5, 2023 / Feature / Michael Massing
How Democrats Beat Arizona’s Extremist Republicans How Democrats Beat Arizona’s Extremist Republicans
Had the likes of Kari Lake taken office, it would have presented one of the greatest challenges to American democracy in modern times.
Jan 3, 2023 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
How the West Failed Bosnia How the West Failed Bosnia
The Dayton Accords and privatization have kept Bosnia and Herzegovina in a tragic limbo.
Dec 27, 2022 / Feature / Carol Schaeffer
What the West Gets Wrong About the Rwandan Genocide What the West Gets Wrong About the Rwandan Genocide
The mass killings haunt US foreign policy and distort how we understand ethnic violence.
Dec 15, 2022 / Feature / Jina Moore
America Online: A Cautionary Tale America Online: A Cautionary Tale
On the rise and fall of the quintessential ’90s online service provider—and a warning about today’s social-media giants.
Dec 15, 2022 / Feature / Joanne McNeil
Lessons on Resistance From a Child of the First Climate-Change Generation Lessons on Resistance From a Child of the First Climate-Change Generation
No one sang me a lullaby about the future—and we shouldn’t do that for this generation of kids, either. They need the truth to start to prepare for the changes that are coming.
Dec 15, 2022 / Feature / Mary Annaïse Heglar
Democrats Got Tough on Crime. Now There’s a Crisis of Aging Behind Bars. Democrats Got Tough on Crime. Now There’s a Crisis of Aging Behind Bars.
California and New York legislators are trying to undo the damage caused since the 1994 Crime Bill. But elder parole isn’t working as hoped.
Dec 14, 2022 / Feature / Victoria Law
Reading Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble” in the Age of Ron DeSantis Reading Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble” in the Age of Ron DeSantis
More than 30 years after it was published, the seminal queer theory text still has some things to say.
Dec 14, 2022 / Feature / Naomi Gordon-Loebl