The Nation

Herman Cain, the Polls and What Race Has to Do With It

Herman Cain, the Polls and What Race Has to Do With It

Like the motivational speaker he is, Cain is helping a lot of Republicans feel just fine about their racial politics.

Posted October 10, 2011

Can Marine Le Pen Win in France?

Can Marine Le Pen Win in France?

The new leader of the National Front has risen in the polls by borrowing arguments from the left. But critics worry: has she turned against her father’s bigotry, or merely made it more presentable?

Posted October 5, 2011

Ban Birth Control? They Wouldn't Dare...

Ban Birth Control? They Wouldn't Dare...

Wake up, sleepyheads: the antichoicers are coming for contraception.

Posted October 5, 2011

Books and the Arts

To see humanitarianism everywhere is not to see it at all.

The Origins of Political Order, a work of total world history, pits the old Fukuyama against the new.

Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Fatale, Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write About This Place, Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The History of Costaguana

News and Analysis

Naomi Klein

The task of our time is to insist that we can afford to build a decent society—while at the same time, respect the real limits to what the earth can take.

Because you spoke out twenty years ago, women no longer shrug off sexual harassment—we press charges.

The OWS phenomenon has inspired millions. If it links up with the slow, difficult work of movement-building, it can bring about systemic change.

A second round of responses from economists and wonks to Thomas Geoghegan's Nation essay “What Would Keynes Do?”

Occupy DC

The Wall Street protesters have created the template for an ambitious new occupation in the nation’s capital.

Anita Hill hearing

She put sexual harassment on the map, but twenty years later, more than half of all high school and college age women report being harassed.
 

Barack Obama

Facing a primary challenger might force Obama to embrace progressive ideals—and he can’t win 2012 if he doesn’t.

Five years after the death of the Russian journalist, police have arrested a central figure in the murder. But will the investigation get to the bottom of all the uncomfortable truths about Politkovskaya's murder?