A new book explores the phenomenon of gay bar closures and the forms of nightlife that have emerged to replace them.
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The stats of the Negro Leagues have been officially integrated into the Major League Baseball ledger, and one player in particular is laying waste to the baseball record book: Josh Gibson.
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“War is not a side project that academia can cast off or divest from. For many schools—particularly large research universities—to divest from war would be to commit institutional suicide.”

One of our members explores the military-academic-industrial complex in The Nation.

'His story is not just of one man but of a politics, and an elite, that has never quite been able to come to terms with its culpability for triggering the ever-widening crises of the 21st century.' Jeet Heer The Nation thenation.com/article/cultur…

The extremist behavior of the Saudi government—before and after 9/11—is evidence of a brittle regime that relies on violence because it lacks legitimacy and has low powers of persuasion. Imagine such a regime with nuclear weapons!
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Marty Peretz's 'The Controversialist clarifies how a powerful segment of the ruling class thinks and operates. There’s no other book that so clearly illuminates the moral, intellectual, and political corruption of neoliberalism.' Jeet Heer banger. thenation.com/article/cultur…

The brutal crackdown on the divestment encampments exposed a stark truth: The modern university cannot function without the support of the military-industrial complex.
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The brutal crackdown on the student divestment movement was a mask off moment for the modern university. It underscored a stark truth: these schools cannot function without the support of the military-industrial complex.
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I love that Josh Gibson now dominates what was once an apartheid record book thenation.com/article/societ…

My latest piece The Nation It’s a great thing that Major League Baseball is acknowledging Negro League records. But it shouldn’t prevent us from remembering how, 75 years ago, MLB also destroyed the Negro Leagues. thenation.com/article/societ…

For the first time since the end of apartheid, the party may be forced into a coalition government. Decades of broken promises have left many former supporters disillusioned.
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Why did universities crack down so intensely on the Gaza solidarity encampments? One reason: War is not a side project for these schools. For many of them, to divest from war would be to commit institutional suicide.
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The scale of the US military-industrial complex's grip on higher education is just staggering—if you want to understand why schools went so ballistic over calls to divest from war, start here thenation.com/article/archiv…

South Africa's multi-party system was designed to ensure that minority points of view are represented in government. But with no single opposition party able to realistically challenge the ANC’s dominance, it has escaped accountability.
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A woefully ill-prepared Donald Trump seemed to believe that his mere presence would win the Libertarian Party over. He got that call dramatically wrong.
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“The breakdown of the rule of law globally was ignited by the lack of democratic vision for the internet,' Maria Ressa argues.
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Voices for real change won't go quietly.

Me for The Nation on Starmer's Labour and the challenge being mounted by #Greens such as @Carla_Denyer and credible independents such as Emma Dent Coad Leanne Mohamad Andrew Feinstein and, of course, Jeremy Corbyn thenation.com/article/world/…

Because Labour’s geographically-concentrated support base translates into proportionately fewer seats in Britain’s first-past-the-post system, the party has to win the popular vote by 13.7 points to even secure a majority.
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A rushed, stupefying account of The Washington Post’s decision to sit on the Alito family’s flag-provocation story, writes Chris Lehmann, reveals how the mantras of journalistic impartiality are not merely delusions of a professional-managerial caste.
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The atrocities we witness in Gaza are carried out with American-made bombs, dropped from American-made jets, guided by sophisticated military technologies; all researched, designed and built with the full-throated participation of American universities.
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