Nurses Prescribe a White House Rethink on Financial Transactions Tax Nurses Prescribe a White House Rethink on Financial Transactions Tax
National Nurses United and the AFL-CIO have been urging the White House to stop opposing a global financial transactions tax. It’s working.
Nov 3, 2011 / John Nichols
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama Should Stay Focused on Job Creation Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama Should Stay Focused on Job Creation
Congress is set to vote on President Obama's Job Act today, and the ramifications could be major.
Nov 3, 2011 / Press Room
Smearing Social Security Smearing Social Security
The Washington Post's alarming “news” that Social Security has gone cash negative is not true.
Nov 3, 2011 / William Greider
OWS Influences Dissent at Connecticut College OWS Influences Dissent at Connecticut College
The anatomy of dissent at Conecticut College.
Nov 3, 2011 / StudentNation / Megan Reback
Occupy Patriotism Occupy Patriotism
“This is the proudest I’ve ever been of America in the 25 years of my life.”
Nov 3, 2011 / StudentNation / Erika Eichelberger
Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (11/4) Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (11/4)
Every week, Nation interns try to cut through the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.
Nov 3, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation
America’s Top Corporations Pay Half of Taxes They Owe America’s Top Corporations Pay Half of Taxes They Owe
A new report details how good major corporations are at taking advantage of the tax code and the political system in Washington.
Nov 3, 2011 / George Zornick
Culture of Death: Who Gets to Be a Person in Mississippi? Culture of Death: Who Gets to Be a Person in Mississippi?
As the state votes on a personhood amendment defending the ‘sanctity of life,’ leadership is measured in executions and assassinations.
Nov 3, 2011 / Patricia J. Williams
The Incredible Shrinking Woman in Post-9/11 Hell The Incredible Shrinking Woman in Post-9/11 Hell
How one citizen got placd on a no-pay list in America's new security-happy landscape.
Nov 3, 2011 / Ann Jones
Video: Occupy Protesters Shut Down Oakland Port Video: Occupy Protesters Shut Down Oakland Port
Since last week when Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen was critically injured by the police force during a peaceful protest in Oakland, the Northern Californian city has become a focal point for the nationwide Occupy movement. Yesterday, hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters marched in the General Strike against economic inequality and police brutality. The protesters succeeded in shutting down downtown and the Port of Oakland. Reuters reports. —Jin Zhao
Nov 3, 2011 / Reuters