November's elections were a wake up call for movements around labor, the environment, immigration and education. Did activists tether themselves too closely to Democrats? What should they do now? A Nation special package.
Reflecting on the controversy over the publication of classified cables, a former Foreign Service officer calls for a more open diplomacy.
Over the past decade, the immigrants' rights movement has become a strong grassroots force. Now it's time to develop a unified legislative strategy that can shape the national debate.
The president's commission did not get the support needed to force Congressional votes on a proposal to cut Social Security and Medicare. Now is the time for progressives to push Jan Schakowsy's smart alternative.
Vasily Grossman's Everything Flows is a searching and humane investigation of the totalitarian condition.
Patrick Leigh Fermor's fifty-year correspondence with Deborah Devonshire reads like an accidental memoir of a disappearing world.
The WikiLeaks revelations of Silvio Berlusconi’s bromance with Vladimir Putin have raised new questions about whether their close ties stem from “personal investments.” But the growing popular protests in Italy, echoing those in Britain, France and Greece, are primarily against savage austerity measures that have favored the wealthy.
Christian evangelicals are donating saplings to make the Israeli desert bloom—but they're doing it on land now being seized from Bedouins.
Glenn Beck is only the latest of the deranged people, movements and governments that, inevitably, find their way to anti-Semitism.
For too long, unions have mistaken access for power. They need to get back to organizing and activating members.
Adoption has become a form of trafficking in and of itself.
Bowery Arts & Science presents Comedy Does Poetry Does Comedy, a b...