Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Beautiful Mind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Beautiful Mind
Sitting down with a basketball legend with a genius-level IQ demands eclectic questions and invites delicious answers.
Jan 11, 2016 / Dave Zirin
‘Bringing History to Bear’ ‘Bringing History to Bear’
Celebrating 150 years of dialogue and dissent.
Nov 19, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Feminism Needs More Thinkers Who Aren’t Right 100 Percent of the Time Feminism Needs More Thinkers Who Aren’t Right 100 Percent of the Time
Feminists like Germaine Greer should be valued for what they get right, rather than banned for what they get wrong.
Nov 5, 2015 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Sheldon Wolin, 1922–2015 Sheldon Wolin, 1922–2015
The late scholar and Nation contributor brought left-leaning political philosophy to the fore.
Oct 30, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Here’s How to Cop Watch Here’s How to Cop Watch
Everyone should know how to do this.
Sep 23, 2015 / Muna Mire
Bernie, Donald, and the Promise of Populism Bernie, Donald, and the Promise of Populism
Both candidates have been mislabeled as populists. The movement of that name was a genuine people’s rebellion that reinvigorated democracy. We can do it again.
Sep 21, 2015 / William Greider
Guatemala’s Civil Society Just Did the Impossible Guatemala’s Civil Society Just Did the Impossible
Guatemalans banded together to depose a corrupt administration with dark connections to human rights violations. But another election looms, and the candidates don’t inspire confid...
Sep 11, 2015 / Patricia Davis
August 30, 1944: Molly Ivins Is Born August 30, 1944: Molly Ivins Is Born
“Molly’s writing reminds us that dissent is what rescues the democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors, that republican self-government, properly understood, is an uproar an...
Aug 30, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
August 23: Sacco and Vanzetti Are Executed in Massachusetts (1927); AND the Hitler-Stalin Pact Is Signed (1939) August 23: Sacco and Vanzetti Are Executed in Massachusetts (1927); AND the Hitler-Stalin Pact Is Signed (1939)
Is this the single darkest day on the calendar for the international left?
Aug 23, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
How Ukraine’s New Memory Commissar Is Controlling the Nation’s Past How Ukraine’s New Memory Commissar Is Controlling the Nation’s Past
Volodymyr Viatrovych was the driving force behind new laws that restrict free speech and regulate how history is written.
Aug 13, 2015 / Jared McBride