• Brave Nation Activist Award Winner

  Video

  Brave Nation : Cristina Lara is a feminist, a football player, a writer and a straight-A student. Watch her receive the first Brave Nation Activist award.

• Naomi Klein on the Exploitation of Shock

  Political Analysis

  The Tavis Smiley Show : Nation contributer Naomi Klein discusses her book, The Shock Doctrine, and how moments of crisis are seen as moments to act.

• This Brave Nation: A Defining Moment

  Video

  Brave Nation : Legendary activist Tom Hayden talks with Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, about the state of the fourth branch of government.

• Getting Pakistan Wrong

  Pakistan

  Graham Usher: The US military's aggressive confrontation with the Taliban and its Al Qaeda cohorts in Pakistan is only making matters worse.

• Carlin Uncensored

  Video

  YouTube : Comedian George Carlin is dead at 71. The Nation pays tribute to "America's most consistently savage social commentator."

• This Brave Nation: Peace Takes Courage

  Activism & Organizing

  Brave Nation : Antiwar activist Ava Lowery and the ACLU's Anthony Romero discuss the legal quagmire into which the country has sunk since 9/11.

• This Brave Nation: Environmental Visionaries

  Video

  Brave Nation : Carl Pope and Van Jones discuss the issues and movements that have informed and inspired their lives and work.

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• Pakistan: The Intersection

  Pakistan

  Sam Graham-Felsen, James Jacoby & Ali Sethi: VideoNation travels to Pakistan to assess the nation's future through the eyes of students at the progressive National College of Arts and the extremist-dominated Punjab University.

• Antiwar Students Rising

  Peace Activism

  Sam Graham-Felsen: As the student peace movement grows stronger and more sophisticated, can it ignite the silent antiwar majority on campus?

• GOP 'Catch the Immigrant' Game Catches Flak

  Republican Party

  Sam Graham-Felsen: College Republicans staged a tasteless game at NYU and hundreds of students showed up to oppose them.

• Obama's Impressive Youthroots

  Youth

  Sam Graham-Felsen: Barack Obama's youthful supporters are using Facebook and other social networking web tools to spark a movement that could make a real difference.

• Careful, He Might Hear You

  Fiction

  Ali Sethi: In the Country of Men tells the story of a Libyan boy whose dissident father is wanted by the authorities.

• Morality of the Minimum

  Electoral Politics

  Katrina vanden Heuvel & Sam Graham-Felsen: Let Justice Roll deserves credit for mobilizing values voters around minimum wage initiatives.

• The 'Burbs Go Blue

  Sam Graham-Felsen & Ari Berman