"Trayvon Martin was not innocent. He was guilty of being black in presumably restricted public space."

Writes Melissa Harris-Perry in The Nation: For decades, Jim Crow laws made this crime statutory. They codified the spaces into which black b...

"I was thinking about Baader-Meinhof. Patty Hearst. Tompkins Square. This a song about living in Alphabet City."

So said David Byrne, explaining his song "Life During Wartime." I'm thinking about that song today because I'm reading Gr...

A "more insidious form of racism" — relacing the old "naked, egregious and aggressive" racism — is now undermining Barack Obama.

As perceived in The Nation by polisci prof Melissa Harris-Perry: Not only did white Democratic voters prove willing to support a black candi...

"The End of the Jerry Lewis Telethon—It's About Time."

Says history prof Jon Wiener: Every year it was the same. Jerry did his telethon shtick, parading little kids in wheelchairs across the Las ...

"Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history. It isn't taught in most high schools."

Asserts The Nation: You can't find it on the major television networks or even on the History Channel. Indeed, our history is under sieg...

Roy Edroso imagines that Leslie Savan had the courage to "dispute Muslim articles of faith."

He's presenting something I wrote to his readers, who follow his direction and call me an idiot, but he's got it wrong. I blogged (...

"The False and 'Seedy' Claim That Obama Is Muslim."

Get it? "Seedy"? The Nation quotes Franklin Graham: “I think the president's problem is that he was born a Muslim. His father ...

The Nation: "Elena Kagan should be borked."

In the special Kagan meaning of "bork": In what is by now an oft-quoted snippet from one of her law review articles, Supreme Court...