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The Nation’s favorite legal mind is here to fix America’s least democratic institution.

She’s out-debated politicians and outmanoeuvred diplomats. Now, Canada’s first Inuk governor general sets her sights on reconciliation

A decade ago,  Nick Turse embarked on a quest to cover what the U.S. military was doing in Africa.  By Nick Turse TomDispatch.com What’s the U.S. military doing in Africa? It’s an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, straight-jacketed in secrecy, and hogtied by red tape. Or at least it would be i

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Today’s Nick Turse piece on U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) plunged me into an all-American past that, in light of - Nick Turse for Antiwar.com Original

The award honors “Inside the Fall of Kabul,” an account published by the New York Times Magazine of the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban.  

The Columbia Journalism School has named Ari Berman as this year’s Pringle Lecturer to address the graduating class on Journalism Day. The award is made annually by faculty to an outstanding journalist covering politics whose work can serve as a source of inspiration for the next generation.

Elie Mystal is The Nation’s justice correspondent—covering the courts, the criminal justice system, and politics—and the force behind the magazine’s

Katha Pollitt is well known for her wit and her keen sense of both the ridiculous and the sublime. Her "Subject to Debate" column, which debuted in 1995 and which the Washington Post called "the best place to go for original thinking on the left," appears every other week in The Nation; it is frequently reprinted in newspapers across the country. In 2003, "Subject to Debate" won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. She is also a Puffin Foundation ...

Shining a Light on Global Mass Incarceration: Trauma Ethics in Prison Reporting. Join the Pulitzer Center on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, at 11:00am EDT for a discussion on the challenges of reporting on prisons around the world. A panel of Pulitzer Center grantees will speak about their experiences while working on their Pulitzer Center projects. The event will feature: Sarah Shourd, a trauma-informed investigative journalist, playwright, and 2019 Stanford JSK Knight fellow whose most recent ...

7:56 a.m. Eastern JOHN BERMAN: So, as the Supreme Court approaches the end of the term this month, all eyes are on whether 82-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer will announce any potential retirement plans which would allow President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats to replace him with a much younger liberal perhaps.  Joining us now is Elie Mystal. Hes the Justice correspondent for The Nation magazine and a fellow at Type Media Center. He just wrote a piece titled, "Its Time for Stephen...