Slide Show: 100 Days of WikiLeaks’s Cablegate Slide Show: 100 Days of WikiLeaks’s Cablegate
On November 28th of last year, WikiLeaks began releasing their massive cache of classified correspondence cables to and from US diplomats around the world, an unprecedented publica…
Mar 7, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: Wisconsin’s Weekend of Protest Slide Show: Wisconsin’s Weekend of Protest
With protests in Wisconsin now in their third week, tensions are running high among the state Republicans who have stonewalled any effort at compromise or negotiation with public-s…
Mar 1, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: America’s Day of Action: US Uncut and Solidarity with Wisconsin Slide Show: America’s Day of Action: US Uncut and Solidarity with Wisconsin
On Saturday, February 26, progressives carried out a major day of action as protesters from coast to coast joined Wisconsin workers in solidarity against right-wing attacks on unio…
Feb 28, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: Wisconsin’s Protests In Pictures Slide Show: Wisconsin’s Protests In Pictures
Shortly after taking office in January, Wisconsin’s new Republican Governor, Scott Walker, began an attack on public workers, submitting a proposal to strip public employees…
Feb 18, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: Who’s Behind Egypt’s Revolution? Slide Show: Who’s Behind Egypt’s Revolution?
Egypt’s revolution, still unfolding, is not a leaderless one. At the core of the movement that turned out hundreds of thousands in Tahrir Square, in Cairo’s suburbs and…
Feb 16, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: The Nation Celebrates Black History Month Slide Show: The Nation Celebrates Black History Month
The Nation’s editors—from its abolitionist founders to the present—have always provided space for those persistent and too-often lonely voices inveighing against the evils of racial injustice. In this archival slide show, we present a small sampling of the many timeless articles highlighting issues of race and civil rights from The Nation’s past 146 years.
Feb 14, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: 10 Works of Art the Right Wants to Censor Slide Show: 10 Works of Art the Right Wants to Censor
This past November 30, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery unceremoniously pulled David Wojnarowicz’s film A Fire in My Belly from an exhibit after complaints f…
Feb 9, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: 7 Strongmen Behind the Unrest in the Middle East Slide Show: 7 Strongmen Behind the Unrest in the Middle East
On December 17, 2010, a Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in front of an administrative building to protest the treatment he had received at the han…
Feb 9, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: 8 Corporations That Owe You Money Slide Show: 8 Corporations That Owe You Money
On the 2008 campaign trail, Barack Obama pledged to close tax loopholes that allow the company’s wealthiest corporations shield profits in offshore havens, and early in his p…
Feb 3, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: Egypt’s Protests In Pictures Slide Show: Egypt’s Protests In Pictures
On Monday, January 31, protesters took to Egypt’s streets for a seventh day, demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year reign. The broad coalition of student…
Jan 31, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation