Nation Topics - Nikki Haley | The Nation

South Carolinians are beginning to feel duped by their new governor’s cronyism.

While Nikki Haley’s political positions may fit squarely into the conservative Republican camp, her Indian-American identity allows South Carolina conservatives and the Tea Party crowd to boast of racial diversity in their ranks.

The Republican Party is hard-selling its hot Mama Grizzlies. But it's mostly men—not women—who are buying.

Fresh faces aside, the Republican Party's stance on the issues that matter to working mothers is as regressive as it's ever been.

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Melissa Harris-Lacewell join host Laura Flanders in studio to kick off The Nation on Grit TV.  This week: the victories of Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman in California, Sharron Angle in Nevada, and Nikki Haley in South Carolina in last week's primaries are being hailed as a victory for women. Yet do conservative, anti-government women's candidacies really spell gains for women nationwide?

Ari Berman on Arkansas, Nicholas Kusnetz on Nikki Haley, and kudos for Katrina.