Update From the UK Student Protests: Police Beat Protesters Trapped in Parliament Square Kettle Update From the UK Student Protests: Police Beat Protesters Trapped in Parliament Square Kettle
The supposed heart of British democracy has become a searing wound of rage and retribution.
Dec 10, 2010 / StudentNation / Laurie Penny
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
Readers respond to Obama's controversial tax cut compromise.
Dec 10, 2010 / Eric Alterman
Sanders ‘Filibusters’ Tax Deal for 8.5 Hours, Tells Senate: ‘We Can Come Up With a Better Proposal’ Sanders ‘Filibusters’ Tax Deal for 8.5 Hours, Tells Senate: ‘We Can Come Up With a Better Proposal’
Vermont senator finishes remarkable protest by urging Americans to "stand up and say, 'that we can do better than this, that we don’t need to drive up the national ...
Dec 10, 2010 / John Nichols
This Week at TheNation.com: Continued WikiLeaks Coverage. Plus: Two Slideshows and an Award This Week at TheNation.com: Continued WikiLeaks Coverage. Plus: Two Slideshows and an Award
Continued WikiLeaks Coverage. Plus, Scahill testifies before Congress.
Dec 10, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Vienna Declaration The Vienna Declaration
Drug users deserve the chance to prevent HIV, too.
Dec 10, 2010 / Judith Auerbach
Attacks On Government Workers in Tax Deal Attacks On Government Workers in Tax Deal
Republican activist Grover Norquist once famously declared that he'd like to shrink the federal government to the point where he could drown it in a bathtub—but a little-noti...
Dec 10, 2010 / Laura Flanders
The Breakdown: What Would Keynes Say About the Tax Deal? The Breakdown: What Would Keynes Say About the Tax Deal?
Will the tax deal result in Keynes-style stimulus? Washington Editor Christopher Hayes and Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University, break down Keynesianism a...
Dec 10, 2010 / Chris Hayes
Jury Convicts Three, Acquits Two in Post-Katrina Police Shooting Jury Convicts Three, Acquits Two in Post-Katrina Police Shooting
A federal jury found three New Orleans police officers guilty in the shooting, burning and cover-up of the death of Henry Glover. Two officers were acquitted.
Dec 10, 2010 / A.C. Thompson
Against an Aristocracy of Wealth: House Democrats Focus Fight on Estate-Tax Exemption Against an Aristocracy of Wealth: House Democrats Focus Fight on Estate-Tax Exemption
House Democrats can and should focus on getting rid of the massive estate-tax exemption agreed to by President Obama and Senate Republicans. Speaker Pelosi has the arguments—...
Dec 10, 2010 / John Nichols
Obama Threatens Social Security Obama Threatens Social Security
The payroll tax cut sounds attractive, but the consequences could prove deadly for the federal government's most popular program.
Dec 9, 2010 / William Greider