Fight for Your Right to Vote for CEO Pay Fight for Your Right to Vote for CEO Pay
The Chamber of Commerce and other big business groups are lobbying the US Securities and Exchange Commission to change the rules, allowing corporations more control over the voting...
Oct 20, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Nation Conversations: Richard Kim and John Nichols on Elections 2010 Nation Conversations: Richard Kim and John Nichols on Elections 2010
Are the Democrats cooked for 2010? Will the GOP continue it's rightward drift? Richard Kim and John Nichols explain, aboard the 2010 Nation Cruise.
Oct 20, 2010 / The Nation
Former Fannie Mae Lobbyist Tom Donilon to Become National Security Adviser Former Fannie Mae Lobbyist Tom Donilon to Become National Security Adviser
Why would President Obama, whose legacy has been sabotaged by a housing crisis that Tom Donilon helped create and conceal, hire him to run the most sensitive position of public t...
Oct 20, 2010 / Robert Scheer
Predator’s Ball Predator’s Ball
The Republicans' reliance on corporate underwriting belies their recent commitment to populist democratic action.
Oct 20, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Can Karzai Cut Pakistan Out of a Deal With the Taliban? No Can Karzai Cut Pakistan Out of a Deal With the Taliban? No
The Afghan president also faces armed resistance to a Taliban deal from his erstwhile allies in the old, anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, who are rearing and preparing for civil war...
Oct 20, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Feingold Battles Back Feingold Battles Back
After trailing by double-digits, the Wisconsin senator is now in a dead heat, according to a new poll.
Oct 19, 2010 / John Nichols
Conversation: Stephen Cohen on the Survivors of Stalin’s Gulag Conversation: Stephen Cohen on the Survivors of Stalin’s Gulag
According to Cohen, half of Russia looks back to Joseph Stalin as a great leader and the other half as a genocidal murderer. In his new book, he examines the ongoing struggle to ...
Oct 19, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Nation on Grit TV
Commentary: Betsy Reed on Lou Dobbs’s Immigration Contradictions Commentary: Betsy Reed on Lou Dobbs’s Immigration Contradictions
All the attention given to Dobbs's hypocrisy risks obscuring the deeper lesson to learn from this case: that undocumented workers are so thoroughly woven into the fabric of our e...
Oct 19, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
Ari Melber Analyzes Obama’s Lost Message on CNN’s Parker/Spitzer Ari Melber Analyzes Obama’s Lost Message on CNN’s Parker/Spitzer
What happened to "hope" and "change"? Melber says Obama's campaign promises may not be dead yet.
Oct 19, 2010 / CNN
Learning From Lou Dobbs’s Hypocrisy Learning From Lou Dobbs’s Hypocrisy
Fighting for the labor rights of undocumented workers will improve the working conditions for all Americans, argues Isabel Macdonald in the Guardian.
Oct 19, 2010 / Press Room