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How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws.
Joshua Hunt The Nation Feb 2020 15min Permalink
The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right.
Arundhati Roy The Nation Nov 2019 40min Permalink
In a supermax facility on US soil, inmates are force fed—and barred from sharing their stories.
Aviva Stahl The Nation Jun 2019 30min Permalink
Food. Phone calls. Medical care. Transport. Even in public prisons, “piecemeal privatization” is transforming incarceration in America.
Tim Requarth The Nation Apr 2019 30min Permalink
The many problems with a common forensic technique called “pattern-matching” — comparisons of bite marks, tool marks, hairs, shoe prints, tire tracks, or fingerprints.
Meehan Crist, Tim Requarth The Nation Feb 2018 45min Permalink
On the rise of Alliance Defending Freedom.
Sarah Posner The Nation Nov 2017 15min Permalink
On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.
James Baldwin The Nation Jul 1966 20min Permalink
The state attorney, who prosecuted Marissa Alexander and failed to convict George Zimmerman, has put hundreds of children behind bars.
Jessica Pishko The Nation Aug 2016 15min Permalink
The post-newsroom lives of veteran newspaper reporters who have lost their jobs.
Dale Mahardige The Nation Mar 2016 Permalink
There is a little-known network of 11 federal prisons in America called Criminal Alien Requirement facilities. They exclusively house men who lack U.S. citizenship and have been convicted of crimes. They are all run privately. And over the last 18 years, they have allowed scores of inmates to die from diseases that could have been treated.
Seth Freed Wessler The Nation Jan 2016 Permalink
The plight of the uninsured in a red state.
Kai Wright The Nation Jun 2015 25min Permalink
Guatemala discovers, in bat-guano spotted documents, the truth about its violent past.
Peter Canby The Nation Feb 2015 15min Permalink
An argument for how the system protects police.
Chase Madar The Nation Nov 2014 15min Permalink
“The Anonymous mystique had allowed a group of incompetents to hijack, then discredit, an important grassroots movement in the eyes of national media.”
Adrian Chen The Nation Nov 2014 Permalink
The life and mysterious death of dissident Bulgarian writer and radio journalist Georgi Markov.
Dimiter Kenarov The Nation Apr 2014 20min Permalink
In Harpersville, Alabama, a traffic violation can lead to months in jail and a never-ending stint in a work-release program – what some refer to as a modern-day debtors’ prison.
What accounts for the gender gap in literary criticism?
Miriam Markowitz The Nation Dec 2013 25min Permalink
An examination of the Minutemen movement and death on the border.
Greg Grandin The Nation Oct 2013 20min Permalink
How the icon’s personal struggles with identity fed his art.
Adam Shatz The Nation Sep 2013 25min Permalink
On the drone strikes that killed Anwar al-Awlaki and his U.S.-born son.
Jeremy Scahill The Nation Apr 2013 20min Permalink
Vidal on Midge Decter, homophobia and a proposed alliance between Jews and gays.
Gore Vidal The Nation Nov 1981 Permalink
The story of Trina Garnett, “one of approximately 470 prisoners in Pennsylvania serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.”
Liliana Segura The Nation May 2012 15min Permalink
On the Republican Party’s successful use of redistricting to “pass draconian anti-immigration laws, end integrated busing, drug-test welfare recipients and curb the ability of death-row inmates to challenge convictions based on racial bias.”
Ari Berman The Nation Feb 2012 15min Permalink
The notorious Somali paramilitary warlord who goes by the nom de guerre Indha Adde, or White Eyes, walks alongside trenches on the outskirts of Mogadishu’s Bakara Market once occupied by fighters from the Shabab, the Islamic militant group that has pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda. In one of the trenches, the foot of a corpse pokes out from a makeshift grave consisting of some sand dumped loosely over the body. One of Indha Adde’s militiamen says the body is that of a foreigner who fought alongside the Shabab. “We bury their dead, and we also capture them alive,” says Indha Adde in a low, raspy voice. “We take care of them if they are Somali, but if we capture a foreigner we execute them so that others will see we have no mercy.”
Jeremy Scahill The Nation Sep 2011 35min Permalink
The author accompanies Toni Morrison to Stockholm, where she accepts the Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Hi," she said on the telephone, a week after the announcement. "This is Toni, your Nobelette. Are you ready for Stockholm?" Well, since she asked, why not? I left town for Greek light, German sausage, Russian soul, French sauce, Spanish bull, Zen jokes, the Heart of Darkness and the Blood of the Lamb. Toni Morrison's butter cakes and baby ghosts, her blade of blackbirds and her graveyard loves, her Not Doctor Street and No Mercy Hospital and all those maple syrup men "with the long-distance eyes" are a whole lot more transfiguring. Where else but Stockholm, even if she does seem to have been promiscuous with her invitations. I mean, she asked Bill Clinton, too, whose inaugural she had attended, and with whom she was intimate at a White House dinner party in March. (He told Toni's agent, Amanda "Binky" Urban, that he really wanted to go but... they wouldn't let him.) Salman Rushdie might also have gone except that the Swedish Academy declined officially to endorse him in his martyrdom, after which gutlessness three of the obligatory eighteen academicians resigned in protest, and can't be replaced, because you must die in your Stockholm saddle.
John Leonard The Nation Jan 1994 15min Permalink