DREAM Act Comes to the Senate Next Week DREAM Act Comes to the Senate Next Week
Senators decide next week if hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people will get a path to citizenship. Student activists are mobilizing to convince them to say yes.
Sep 16, 2010 / StudentNation / Braden Goyette
A Summary of What the ‘New York Times’ Discovered About John Boehner’s Ties to Corporate Lobbyists A Summary of What the ‘New York Times’ Discovered About John Boehner’s Ties to Corporate Lobbyists
It really couldn't be plainer.
Sep 16, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century Slide Show: The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century
Go here to read Peter Dreier's introduction to this series detailing the lives and legacies of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century. Go here to see the eleven reader-selected American progressives who Nation readers think made the biggest difference in the twentieth century—and the activists, advocates and politicians who are already defining the twenty-first.
Sep 16, 2010 / Photo Essay / Peter Dreier
Food Not Bombs Food Not Bombs
Food Not Bombs has been making a visible difference for thirty years.
Sep 16, 2010 / Jennifer O’Mahony
The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century
The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainst...
Sep 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Peter Dreier
Time for a Real Economic Debate Time for a Real Economic Debate
Fifteen million Americans are unemployed. Poverty is up. One in four homes is under water. It's time for a serious debate on the nation's economic direction.
Sep 16, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Is Obama Afraid of Solar Power? Is Obama Afraid of Solar Power?
If the administration is serious about renewable energy, why won't it put solar panels on the roof of the White House?
Sep 16, 2010 / Bill McKibben
The Archaic Typewriter: Training Tool for Student Writers? The Archaic Typewriter: Training Tool for Student Writers?
Pierce Nettling argues, "if students want to become more succinct writers, there is no better substitute than practicing on a typewriter."
Sep 16, 2010 / StudentNation / Pierce Nettling
Justice Stephen Breyer: Supreme Court is ‘Not Political’ Justice Stephen Breyer: Supreme Court is ‘Not Political’
Why would a liberal justice defend the Court's conservatives?
Sep 16, 2010 / Jon Wiener