Nation Topics - George Stephanopoulos | The Nation

Republicans have spent their postelection victory lap fearmongering over the deficit. But now they've insisted all Bush tax cuts be extended, at great price to the national debt.

Networks are gutting news divisions while paying movie-star salaries to celebrity hosts.

The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel weighs in on the biggest news story of the week: the White House party crashers.

By refusing to acknowledge Fox News's avowed partisanship, its MSM defenders diminish the work of honest journalists who try to play fair.

A new initiative empowers citizens to submit and rank questions for the president to answer.

Obama declines to "criminalize policy differences"--but what about holding lawbreakers to account?

Ari Melber on Change.gov and torture, Esther Kaplan on an SEIU blunder, John Nichols on Obama's technology guru.

Jeff Madrick on Clintonomics; John Nichols on the Ron Paul revolt; Ari Berman on superdelegate fence-sitters

A serious debate focused about torture, wiretapping, food prices, world hunger... oh, wait. That's the kind of fairy tale they don't do at Disney.

Here's a look at the roots of the campaign that seeks to discredit Barack Obama by linking him to Bill Ayers and the Chicago charity to which they each had ties.