After Promising a ‘Fair Hearing’ on Monuments, Secretary Zinke Shuts Out the Public After Promising a ‘Fair Hearing’ on Monuments, Secretary Zinke Shuts Out the Public
As the Interior Department considers unprecedented changes to protected lands, avenues for public input have been curtailed.
May 18, 2017 / Zoë Carpenter
Empire, Conquest, and the War America Forgot Empire, Conquest, and the War America Forgot
The historian William Hogeland talks about the first war the United States ever fought and the “problematic and thorny and painful” questions his new book raises.
May 15, 2017 / Richard Kreitner
7 Things Donald Trump Gets Absolutely Wrong About Andrew Jackson 7 Things Donald Trump Gets Absolutely Wrong About Andrew Jackson
Trump imagines Jackson, a slaveholder, as a “big hearted” statesman who could have averted the Civil War.
May 1, 2017 / John Nichols
How Do We Find Hope Under Trump? How Do We Find Hope Under Trump?
We must assert, each and every day, that we are not living in normal times.
Mar 1, 2017 / StudentNation / Leehi Yona
Native Americans Are Fighting to Take Back Their Artifacts Native Americans Are Fighting to Take Back Their Artifacts
The material culture and history of too many tribes has been taken from them.
Jan 16, 2017 / The Nation
Robert Reich: Why Republicans Are Wrong About Taxes Robert Reich: Why Republicans Are Wrong About Taxes
Plus: Martin Garbus on clemency for Leonard Peltier, and Amy Wilentz on the worst and best of 2016.
Dec 22, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Want to Know How to Build a Progressive Movement Under Trump? Look to Standing Rock Want to Know How to Build a Progressive Movement Under Trump? Look to Standing Rock
Fighting against white supremacy and neoliberalism takes organizing—and lots of it.
Dec 20, 2016 / Audrea Lim
We Are Hitting the Wall of Maximum Grabbing We Are Hitting the Wall of Maximum Grabbing
We have an epidemic of grabbing—land grabbing, resource grabbing—and now the most powerful nation on earth has elected Donald Trump as its grabber-in-chief.
Dec 14, 2016 / Naomi Klein
It’s Time for President Obama to Grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier It’s Time for President Obama to Grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier
Ten months after filing a petition with the president, renowned lawyers wait—and hope—for Obama to act.
Dec 9, 2016 / Martin Garbus
Indigenous Activists at Standing Rock Told a Deep, True Story Indigenous Activists at Standing Rock Told a Deep, True Story
And that’s why they won at least a temporary victory.
Dec 5, 2016 / Bill McKibben