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The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street

Academics get paid by financial firms to testify against Dodd-Frank regulations. What’s wrong with this picture?

Lee Fang

The New Nullification Movement

Some states are reviving disenfranchisement schemes that date back to the antebellum South.

Ari Berman

Reckoning Comes to Western Coal Country

Decades of government subsidy have cost taxpayers, wrecked the environment and could burn even more carbon than the Keystone pipeline project.

Zoë Carpenter

Comix Nation

Jen Sorensen

Snapshot: Remembering Sandy

Gilles Peress

After the Shutdown: No Time for Compromise

Will the Dems insist on a budget that addresses unemployment and inequality? Or will they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by seeking “common ground”?

The Editors

JPMorgan, Outlaw

Maybe it’s not too big to face criminal charges after all.

William Greider

Have You Ever Met ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán?—and Seven Other Questions for Anabel Hernández

Braving the wrath of traffickers and government officials, Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández has exposed the corruption at the heart of the drug war. She talked to The Nation’s Betsy Reed.

Betsy Reed

Snowden’s Courage

He is brilliant, humble and idealistic.

Jesselyn Radack

Noted

Various Contributors

JPMorgan Cops a $13 Billion Plea

Calvin Trillin

What the Democrats Can Learn From Ted Cruz

He’s a fraud and a wacko bird, but at least the Texas senator has the courage of his convictions. 

Richard Kim

History’s Sinkhole

How did the US-Mexican border become the place where the American past chokes on itself?

Greg Grandin

Jim Crow II

A history of the fight for voting rights and the movement to restrict them once again.

Ari Berman

Sinners

Jia Zhangke’s Touch of Sin, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, and other highs (and lows) from the New York Film Festival.

Stuart Klawans

Shelf Life

Denise Levertov’s poetic communion with the world.

Ange Mlinko

Puzzle No. 3300

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto