The Editors | The Nation

Outrage over the surveillance of Muslim communities must be channeled into pressure to investigate—and end—the federally funded program.

The eurocrisis fully exposes the folly of deficit mania in a time of recession. So why are the GOP candidates still oblivious?

It would intensify the civil conflict and provoke a dangerous proxy war with Russia.

Forcing the Komen reversal was huge—but it was a campaign born of outrage, not ambitious vision.

But Washington won't follow through unless the grassroots insurgency of Wisconsin and Occupy grows.

We need a constitutional amendment to stem the flood of corporate money that’s poisoning our democracy.

Those clamoring for big cuts shouldn’t expect much, if anything, to change this year.

Awash in Super PAC money, defined by negative TV ads, degraded by dumbed-down media and poisoned by voter suppression—this is not what democracy looks like.

The president has started talking like a populist. It took the Occupy movement to make him do it.

In contrast to Obama’s go-easy approach, officials like Eric Schneiderman and Martha Coakley are insisting on vigorous prosecution of bankers.