Quantcast

Nation Topics - 50 Progressives | The Nation

Topic Page

Nation Topics - 50 Progressives

Articles

News and Features

Birth Control, Religion and the Unfit (50 Progressives)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes on the benefits of birth control, a practice which does not interfere with the pleasures of the unfit but saves society from their reduplication.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Hosts of Black Labor (50 Progressives)

What shall the public say in a critical time in the demography of black labor? The South must reform its attitude toward blacks, while the North must reform its attitude toward common labor.

W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
Shall Women Be Equal Before the Law? (50 Progressives)

The removal of all forms of the subjection of women is the purpose to which the National Woman's Party is dedicated.

Elsie Hill and Florence Kelley

Blogs

This Week at TheNation.com: One Nation Working Together. Plus, Our Election 2010 Plans and Two New Videos.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
September 25, 2010
This Week at TheNation.com: An Essential Guide to Our Civic History. Plus: Two New Videos.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
September 17, 2010
Horrors! Kagan is Revealed as Nominee Who Respects Champions of Civil Rights, Underdogs
John Nichols

When Republican senators try to block a Supreme Court nominee by attacking Thurgood Marshall and the powerless, it's a pretty good bet that she'll be confirmed. 

June 28, 2010
"There’s No Question That Union Mines Are Safer"
John Nichols

Want to avoid more mine disasters? Make it easier for unions to organize and protect miners.

April 8, 2010
Donna Edwards' No Corporate Monopoly of Elections Amendment
John Nichols

Maryland Congresswoman Donna Edwards turned to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis for guidance in framing the Constitutional amendment she proposed Tuesday as the right and necessary response to the decision by Chief Justice John Roberts and a high court majority to abandon law and precedent with the purpose of permitting corporations to dominate the political discourse.

February 2, 2010
Curbing Corporate America
The Notion

Corporate and CEO profits are at an all-time high. The richest 1 percent in America posses the wealth of the bottom 95 percent combined. Companies deploy hundreds of lobbyists and spend millions of dollars courting members of Congress to win legislative favors. The presidential election in '08 promises to be the priciest in history, largely underwritten by big business and top dollar donors.

June 8, 2007