Nation Topics - Activism | The Nation

“You need to follow your conscience, follow your heart and follow your wisdom.”

Coverage focused on the call for European integration has largely glossed over the rise in nationalist rhetoric that has led to violence. 

Ten groups that are laying the foundation for an economic justice revival.

Activists are challenging rules that grant corporations the right to sue governments.

The Federal Communications Commission’s new chairman Tom Wheeler announces efforts to “do things differently.”

How high-speed Internet access is changing one Brooklyn neighborhood.

Throughout history, activists have proven that true patriotism demands a vigilant confrontation with government infamy.

For the people of South Africa, Mandela was the leader they could identify with—one who had suffered alongside them.

You can’t always trace it, but everything and everyone has a genealogy.

In attacking “the structural causes of inequality,” he is reviving that great movement’s “preferential option for the poor.”