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Van Jones Wins Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship

Environmental activist and civil rights defender Van Jones is the winner of the 2008 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Jones accepted the award at the annual Institute Dinner Gala on December 8 in New York City. Speakers included Governor Jon Corzine (D-NJ), Governor David Paterson (D-NY), comedian Lewis Black, Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.
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The Grinning Skull

By Rebecca Solnit

"What do you do when you notice that there seems to have been a killing spree? While the...media were working themselves and much of the public into a frenzy about imaginary hordes of murderers, rapists...among the stranded crowds of mostly poor, mostly black people in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, a group of white men went on a shooting spree across the river." More


Clive Stafford Smith Wins 2008 Cultural Freedom Award

Presented by the Lannan Foundation

Nation Books author Clive Stafford Smith (Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side) is the winner of the 2008 Cultural Freedom Award, which recognizes individuals whose work inspires their communities, domestic and international, that are struggling to uphold and defend their right to cultural freedom and diversity. More
NEW THIS WEEK FROM NATION INSTITUTE WRITERS

Rick Warren is an insulting choice

By Katha Pollitt (LA Times)

The Nation Institute fellow explains why the choice of evangelist Rick Warren (he of the Hawaiian t-shirts and comparisons of abortion to the Holocaust) is too extreme. More

Posted DEC 22 08

A Procession of Them: A Photo Exhibition

By Eugene Richards (401 Projects)



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Posted DEC 20 08

Katrina's Hidden Race War

By AC Thompson (The Nation)

In the days after Hurricane Katrina, in the mostly white neighborhood of Algiers Point (which was relatively safe from the deluge), residents armed themselves with handguns, assault rifles and shotguns. Shouting racial epithets, these vigilantes shot at least 11 African Americans seeking refuge—with complete impunity. More

Posted DEC 19 08

Why Atheism May Be the Best Way to Understand God

By Larry Beinhart (AlterNet)

The Nation Books author of the legal and religious thriller Salvation Boulevard explains why only a lack of belief in God offers the possibility of increasing our understanding of him or her. More

Posted DEC 19 08

Justice, Of A Sort, For Blackwater

By Jeremy Scahill (The Nation)

Federal charges are filed against Blackwater guards accused of killing and maiming Iraqi civilians in the 1007 Nisour Square massacre. But the company continues to operate in Iraq and its executives escape scrutiny. More

Posted DEC 08 08

Economists appraise Bhutan's happiness model

By Don Duncan (San Francisco Chronicle)

In the thick of the economic crisis, economists come to Bhutan to appraise a unique economic policy, the Buddhism-inspired principle of Gross National Happiness. More

Posted DEC 04 08

A Terrible Beauty

Michael Soussan (Irish Times)

The Nation Books author argues that the functioning of the United Nations is based on a philosophical model that can no longer fulfill its role in the world. More

Posted DEC 01 08

Alone Among the Ghosts

By Marcela Valdes (The Nation)

Roberto Bolaño's last novel, 2666, is his most profound exploration of art and infamy, craft and crime, the writer and the totalitarian state. More

Posted NOV 19 08

From Kurdistan to K Street

By Laura Rozen (Mother Jones)

Inside Washington's covert foreign policy apparatus, middlemen like Shlomi Michaels are key. More

Posted NOV 18 08

A My Lai a Month

By Nick Turse (The Nation)

In Operation Speedy Express, Turse uncovers new evidence of civilian slaughter and cover-up in Vietnam, proving that the My Lai massacre was the rule rather than the exception. More

Posted NOV 13 08
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Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side

Seeking Justice in Guantánamo Bay

By Clive Stafford Smith

"The best analysis so far of the erosion of civil liberties in America and Britain and the consequences for individuals and society, by the lawyer who has represented more prisoners in Guantánamo than anyone else."

—Clive Stafford Smith is the winner of the 2008 Cultural Freedom Award, presented by the Lannan Foundation.

Read the author's testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in May 2008. Find out more about Clive Stafford Smith. More


A Procession of Them: Photo Exhibition

November 26 - January 18 | 401 Projects, New York
Watch Institute Fellow Eugene Richards' photographic exhibition, A Procession of Them, at 401 Projects in New York City.

January 15 | 8:30 am
Deepa Fernandes Wins North Star News Prize
(4 Times Square, NYC)
Institute Fellow Deepa Fernandes is one of three winners of the North Star News Prize, which recognizes people of color who have made outstanding contributions to journalism, media and communications, and public understanding of the struggle for social justice. MORE

January 24 - May 16
Out of the Global City: An Uncommon Dialogue Series
(St. Mark’s Church Parish Hall, NYC)
Join us for this free lecture series as we explore what living in the global city of New York means. Through it, we hope to nurture deeper engagement between the arts and social justice sectors to imagine and work toward a more just city (and world). Speakers include artists, activists, organizers, academics, writers, media makers and more! MORE

February 6 | 7:30 pm
Eugene Richards Presents His Two Latest Books
(Fotovision, San Francisco)
Listen to Institute Fellow Eugene Richards present his two latest books of photography, A Procession of Them and The Blue Room. Richards will be signing books after the event. MORE

February 18
Lecture/Signing at the ICP
(New York City)
Renowned photographer and Institute Fellow Eugene Richards will give a lecture at the International Center of Photography in New York City, after which he will sign copies of his two latest books, A Procession of Them and The Blue Room. MORE


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