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Never Mind Super PACs: How Big Business Is Buying the Election

Thanks to Citizens United, US and foreign corporations can secretly spend millions on political campaigns under the cover of trade associations.

Lee Fang

The US Chamber of Commerce’s Multimillion-Dollar Attack Plan

The nation’s top business lobby has built up a huge war chest for conservatives. But has it crossed the legal line?

Sasha Abramsky

Ai Weiwei and the Art of Protest

The courageous Chinese dissident has always had an eye for the point where art and politics meet in performance.

Danielle Allen

Rhyme or Reason

The further cartoon adventures of O-Man

Robert Grossman

Open the Presidential Debates!

For a quarter-century, they have been tightly controlled by the major political parties to protect the status quo. It’s time for a change.

John Nichols

Noted

Katrina vanden Heuvel on subsidized CEOs, Marisa Carroll on Obamacare and transgender people, Brett Warnke on the US and South Korea

Various Contributors

Dispatches From Tampa

At the RNC, Nation reporters find a hard-right party that’s cozy with lobbyists and interested in dealing with major storms only when they threaten their convention.

John Nichols and George Zornick

For Julian Assange, Justice Foreclosed

The imperatives of the national security state override the possibility that Assange could face a fair investigation in his sex crimes charges.

JoAnn Wypijewski

Medicare to the Forefront

Calvin Trillin

Women Who Love Republicans Who Hate Them

What’s the matter with them? Do they have Stockholm syndrome?

Katha Pollitt

Ai Weiwei and the Art of Protest

The courageous Chinese dissident has always had an eye for the point where art and politics meet in performance.

Danielle Allen

Pariahs’ Progress: On Isolationism

For Christopher McKnight Nichols, isolationists were cultural cosmopolitans who distrusted the impact of empire.

Jackson Lears

The Antagonist: On Lillian Hellman

How did Lillian Hellman become the archetype of hypocrisy?

Victor Navasky

Scissor Work: On the Unintended Reformation

Brad Gregory wants to upend how we think about the emergence of capitalism, secularism and individualism.

Paula Findlen

Holiday

Rae Armantrout

Exchange: ACA vs. Single-Payer—Bury the Hatchet?

Oliver Hall, Steffie Woolhandler, David U. Himmelstein and Wendell Potter

Puzzle No. 3250

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto