Walmart Gets Desperate Walmart Gets Desperate
The country's largest employer tried to compare the wages of their long-term employees to the stipends of Nation interns. The Daily Beast bought their spin.
Aug 7, 2013 / The Nation
Can Chris Christie Change the Gun Control Debate? Can Chris Christie Change the Gun Control Debate?
A series of gun bills are sitting on the desk of the New Jersey governor, who likes to project a law-and-order image, but who is ever-mindful of national Republican politics as he ...
Aug 7, 2013 / George Zornick
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama Ceded to the ‘Anti-Russian Lobby’ Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama Ceded to the ‘Anti-Russian Lobby’
Katrina vanden Heuvel spoke on a panel on MSNBC's NOW with Alex Wagner​ this morning to debate the reasons for and consequences of Obama's decisions and where Edward S...
Aug 7, 2013 / Press Room
Katrina vanden Heuvel: House Republicans Are ‘Governing by Sabotage’ Katrina vanden Heuvel: House Republicans Are ‘Governing by Sabotage’
Nation editor-in-chief Katrina vanden Heuvel spoke on MSNBC’s NOW with Alex Wagner about the Republican Party’s “suicidal course” and argued that the GOP is...
Aug 7, 2013 / Press Room
ALEC’s Illegal Past? ALEC’s Illegal Past?
Unsurprisingly, the modern American Legislative Exchange Council was born in sin—with a sketchy tax dodge designed to let it front as a “non-political” organizati...
Aug 7, 2013 / Rick Perlstein
Reminiscing About ‘The Washington Post’ Reminiscing About ‘The Washington Post’
In the wake of the news that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post, William Greider looks back on the paper’s glory days.
Aug 7, 2013 / William Greider
ALEC Convention Met With Protests in Chicago ALEC Convention Met With Protests in Chicago
A coalition of labor, community and environmental groups is making it clear that ALEC isn’t welcome in the union town.
Aug 7, 2013 / Micah Uetricht
The US, Russia and Avoiding a New Cold War The US, Russia and Avoiding a New Cold War
Get over it, Mr. Obama, and go to Moscow.
Aug 7, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Unions and Environmentalists: A Match Made with Difficulty Unions and Environmentalists: A Match Made with Difficulty
How labor and environmentalists in California are finding common cause.
Aug 7, 2013 / Madeline Ostrander
Congress Misses an Opportunity to Reverse Sequester Cuts to Housing Congress Misses an Opportunity to Reverse Sequester Cuts to Housing
A Senate attempt to restore sequester cuts to low-income housing fails—housing assistance trend continues to go from bad to worse.
Aug 7, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann