This Year’s Most Valuable Progressives This Year’s Most Valuable Progressives
From Newark Mayor Ras Baraka to artist Molly Crabapple, from Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards to Black Lives Matter, this year’s honorees are on the front lines in the fight fo...
Dec 17, 2015 / Feature / John Nichols
Can Bernie Sanders Win Back Iowa’s Working Class? Can Bernie Sanders Win Back Iowa’s Working Class?
If he can’t, Donald Trump’s brand of right-wing populism looms large.
Dec 16, 2015 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan
‘The Politics of Higher Purpose’: An Interview With Martin O’Malley ‘The Politics of Higher Purpose’: An Interview With Martin O’Malley
The Democratic presidential candidate critiques the democratic socialism of Bernie Sanders and the interventionism of Hillary Clinton—and accepts the criticism from Black Lives Mat...
Dec 16, 2015 / Feature / John Nichols
Volkswagen’s Nazi-Era Blood Crimes Volkswagen’s Nazi-Era Blood Crimes
Its executives—not Nazi officials—oversaw the murder of hundreds of infants of slave laborers.
Dec 15, 2015 / Feature / Neal Gabler
Why Is the FBI Obsessed With This Portland Imam and His Mosque? Why Is the FBI Obsessed With This Portland Imam and His Mosque?
Ever since 9/11, federal investigators have pursued Sheikh Mohamed Abdirahman Kariye. Yet he has never been charged with a terrorism-related crime.
Dec 15, 2015 / Feature / Zoë Carpenter
Natural Resources Were Supposed to Make Afghanistan Rich. Here’s What’s Happening to Them. Natural Resources Were Supposed to Make Afghanistan Rich. Here’s What’s Happening to Them.
Traveling to Logar Province reveals unmanageable violence and co-optation by foreign companies.
Dec 14, 2015 / Feature / Antony Loewenstein
2.7 Million Kids Have Parents in Prison. They’re Losing Their Right to Visit. 2.7 Million Kids Have Parents in Prison. They’re Losing Their Right to Visit.
States have gutted family visitation programs in reaction to prison overcrowding, and racist ideas about black sexuality.
Dec 2, 2015 / Feature / Sylvia A. Harvey
Ralph Nader on 2016, Wall Street, and Our Broken Political System Ralph Nader on 2016, Wall Street, and Our Broken Political System
The consumer advocate, civil libertarian, and former presidential candidate talks to The Nation.
Dec 1, 2015 / Feature / John Nichols
How Ralph Nader Changed America How Ralph Nader Changed America
On the 50th anniversary of Unsafe at Any Speed, a look at how his work launched the consumer-rights, corporate-accountability, and other citizen movements.
Dec 1, 2015 / Feature / Mark Green
Are Black Women Ready for Hillary? Are Black Women Ready for Hillary?
In 2008, South Carolina was the epicenter of the Clinton campaign’s implosion. This year, she’s counting on black women to rally to her side.
Nov 24, 2015 / Feature / Joan Walsh