Help

Nation Topics - The Left

Topic Page

Nation Topics - The Left

Articles

News and Features

Let’s celebrate a new generation of activists who challenge the powerful and mobilize the masses.

A Politics for the 99 Percent

Progressives must take the fall election seriously, even as they challenge the limits of the debate.

A woman at an Occupy Boston protest

Why is it so hard to understand that women's rights are an economic issue?

Scott Walker

The protests in Wisconsin have inspired a new generation of candidates—and they’re winning.

If their fortunes are ever to revive, liberals must find a way to recapture FDR’s militant and optimistic spirit.

Ron Paul

He’s against most of what we’re for. What is it with progressive mancrushes on right-wing Republicans?

The Progressive Honor Roll of 2011

This holiday season, we celebrate the most inspiring activists, organizations and politicians who are fighting for the 99 percent.

Hands Off Our Pensions

What US progressives can learn from British efforts to fight inequality.

Occupy Wall Street

Will it last? Skeptics are entitled to their doubts, but I'm confident that, as with the Populist movement of a century ago, OWS will bring lasting change

Blogs

Will the death of Osama bin Laden bring change in US policy? Last week on this show, one by one, our guests said no. Hopes are one thing; likely reality is something else.

May 10, 2011

As Republicans pursue one of the most unpopular programs in recent memory, progressives have an opportunity to reset the terms of the debate.

May 3, 2011

Antiwar sentiment is at the heart of Obama’s base—and also of his appeal to independent voters. 

April 27, 2011

Obama, in Chile, celebrates Latin American democracy while telling Chileans to not cling to the past.

March 22, 2011

The night that the Wisconsin Senate Republicans got together and forced through Scott Walker's union-busting bill, many Wisconsinites cried foul. The state’s open-meetings law required more notice unless there was a true emergency.

March 21, 2011

For the Senator from Vermont, his Friday speech against Obama's tax cut compromise was just another day on the job.

December 14, 2010

Could a combination of philanthropy and social justice advocacy help progressives overcome the influence of corporate money to achieve real change?

November 5, 2010

Support the Working Families Party—a real progressive alternative.

October 13, 2010

On a Saturday in June, workers, students and allies of UNITE HERE Local 217’s downtown Providence hotels marched in solidarity with gay rights activists in the Rhode Island Pride Parade.

October 12, 2010

StudentNation writer James Cersonsky reports from the Washington, DC, One Nation Working Together March.

October 5, 2010
Close