Unemployment Dips, but That Hardly Makes Up for a Lost Year Unemployment Dips, but That Hardly Makes Up for a Lost Year
Unemployment dropped to 8.6 percent, while the economy added 120,000 new jobs. Is this good enough news?
Dec 2, 2011 / Mike Konczal
The Gingrich of Politics Past Mounts a Modern Scrooge-Marley Campaign The Gingrich of Politics Past Mounts a Modern Scrooge-Marley Campaign
Suggesting that poor kids are only good at crime, GOP front-runner renews campaign to end child labor laws and make low-income children “clean the bathrooms.”
Dec 2, 2011 / John Nichols
Syracuse Rallies Against Campus Violence Syracuse Rallies Against Campus Violence
Local organizers are hoping that the November 30 rally is only a starting point for SU students to open up an important dialogue about issues of police brutality and civil rights...
Dec 1, 2011 / StudentNation / Krystie Yandoli
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reads ‘The First and the Last of Everything’ Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reads ‘The First and the Last of Everything’
Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads, The First and the Last of Everything. Click here to read the full poem. Recorded Monday, November 7, 2011 at the Fugazi club in San Francisco, California, by Jim McKee, Earwax Productions.
Dec 1, 2011 / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Dec 1, 2011 / The Nation
Why Mitt Romney Avoids Interviews Why Mitt Romney Avoids Interviews
Even on Fox News Romney is defensive and unable to explain a key policy.
Dec 1, 2011 / Ben Adler
America Isn’t Broke America Isn’t Broke
The Supercommittee is dead. Here’s what should come next.
Dec 1, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Melissa Harris-Perry: Herman Cain’s Campaign Train Wreck Melissa Harris-Perry: Herman Cain’s Campaign Train Wreck
What is Cain still doing in the GOP's presidential nomination race?
Dec 1, 2011 / Press Room
The GOP’s Interesting Payroll Tax Cut Proposal The GOP’s Interesting Payroll Tax Cut Proposal
A new idea from the GOP about how to pay for a payroll tax cut indicates they might be losing a messaging battle on income inequality.
Dec 1, 2011 / George Zornick
Nation Conversations: Jordan Smith: Reproductive Health? Not in Rick Perry’s Texas Nation Conversations: Jordan Smith: Reproductive Health? Not in Rick Perry’s Texas
As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has deliberately and systematically bankrupted state-provided healthcare for low income and uninsured women.
Dec 1, 2011 / The Nation