Nation Topics - Labor Day | The Nation

Outside the US, May 1 is international workers’ day. Unions, immigrant activists and Occupiers are now resurrecting May Day for Americans. 

At my gym and in our culture, a serious gender conformity crackdown is underway.

Starting today, we’ll post a weekly run-down of the best of our reader comments with the hopes of highlighting some of your most valuable insights and encouraging more people to join the fray.

Kevin Gosztola on Cablegate’s newest revelations, Liliana Segura on Rick Perry’s executions and Richard Kim on Ahmadinejad’s plans to release the jailed American hikers

Bailouts saved the Big Three from collapsing, and Obama was in town on Labor Day to celebrate—but auto jobs alone won’t keep the city’s workers afloat.

Yes, rape cases are notoriously difficult to prove. But in the DSK case, the criminal justice system worked.

If the administration is serious about renewable energy, why won't it put solar panels on the roof of the White House?

No one should mistake GOP protest for an indication that Obama's commitment to $50 billion in infrastructure spending is sufficient to tackle unemployment. It's a start, but it's not enough.

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As GM shutters a plant, an Ohio city in decline struggles to imagine a future.