Nation Topics - Eric Schneiderman | The Nation

It took pressure from progressives to get a partly decent mortgage fraud settlement. They can’t take their eyes off the prize now.

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

William Greider on making the banks pay, Marc Kilstein on the FAA fiasco and Greg Mitchell on the Hiroshima anniversary

Law enforcement agencies have not undertaken a thorough investigation of the banking crisis. But Eric Schneiderman is digging into it.

The fix was in to let Wall Street off the hook once and for all... until last week when the attorney general of New York refused to go along.

In the foreclosure scandal, the crooks are still calling the shots.

The Working Families Party faces down the corporate backlash.

Katrina vanden Heuvel endorses Eric Schneiderman's "transformational politics," Ari Berman resports on the GOP's "vulture" capitalist, and John Nichols appreciates the "Palin Effect."

New York activists who oppose the state's repressive drug laws are optimistic about the new political landscape but unsure of whether politicians will embrace the necessary radical reforms.