ICE’s Latest Stop for Deportations: The DMV ICE’s Latest Stop for Deportations: The DMV
A Freedom of Information Act Request reveals that immigration agents were instructed to search DMV records to target immigrants.
Feb 15, 2013 / Aura Bogado
Josh Eidelson: What’s Next for the Minimum Wage? Josh Eidelson: What’s Next for the Minimum Wage?
Nation writer Josh Eidelson appears on The Young Turks to forecast the future of the minimum wage.
Feb 15, 2013 / Press Room
Senate Republicans Take a Stand Against the Public Interest Senate Republicans Take a Stand Against the Public Interest
Why did war hero Chuck Hagel get blocked, while Wall Street crony Jack Lew sailed through?
Feb 15, 2013 / Robert Scheer
Senator Harry Reid, D-Fool Me Twice Senator Harry Reid, D-Fool Me Twice
The Senate majority leader says it's “shocking” that Republicans are blocking Hagel. Really? What did he think would happen when he blocked filibuster reform?
Feb 15, 2013 / John Nichols
Obama’s Budget Chief Nominee Led Walmart’s Targeted Giving Obama’s Budget Chief Nominee Led Walmart’s Targeted Giving
Under the leadership of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the Walmart Foundation used generous gifts to grease the way for store expansions.
Feb 15, 2013 / Josh Eidelson and Lee Fang
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/15/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/15/13)
This week, articles critique the spotty broadband coverage in the United States, our complacent foreign policy in the Middle East, the idealistic education proposals in Barack Obam...
Feb 15, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Oh Yoko! Ms. Ono at 80 Oh Yoko! Ms. Ono at 80
Yoko’s 80th birthday is a day to celebrate her art, music and activism.
Feb 15, 2013 / Jon Wiener
Sanders, Boxer Outline ‘Gold Standard’ Climate Bill Sanders, Boxer Outline ‘Gold Standard’ Climate Bill
A price on carbon would fund investments in clean energy under the new plan.
Feb 14, 2013 / George Zornick
Hamas? What Hamas? Hamas? What Hamas?
Liberals concerned with Israel often miss the inconvenient fact of the radical Palestinian organization's human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip. Reed Richardson also writes abo...
Feb 14, 2013 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
President Obama: Halt the Deportation of Parents President Obama: Halt the Deportation of Parents
President Obama's State of the Union trumpeted comprehensive immigration reform but what immigrant rights activists really wanted to hear was a promise to halt further deportat...
Feb 14, 2013 / NationAction