Has Obama Delivered on Healthcare Reform? Has Obama Delivered on Healthcare Reform?
Eric Alterman asks, should Americans be proud of what Obama has done so far, or has he succeeded only in passing weak reforms?
Jul 13, 2010 / Press Room
Has Obama Delivered on Healthcare Reform? Has Obama Delivered on Healthcare Reform?
Eric Alterman asks, should Americans be proud of what Obama has done so far, or has he succeeded only in passing weak reforms?
Jul 13, 2010 / MSNBC
Stirrings in Iran: The Bazaar on Strike, Students Join In Stirrings in Iran: The Bazaar on Strike, Students Join In
Something important may be happening Iran, as bazaaris go on strike and political protestors rally to their support.
Jul 13, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
College Media Censorship College Media Censorship
A year-end review of efforts to limit student press expression coast to coast.
Jul 13, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation
MEDIA FIX: Gulf Oil Leak Causing ‘Doomsday’—Just a Lot of Hot Air? MEDIA FIX: Gulf Oil Leak Causing ‘Doomsday’—Just a Lot of Hot Air?
(This post was written by Nation intern Melanie Breault, who is also contributing Daybook items and tweets all summer) How is the world going to end? This is a harrowing question that seems to be coming up more and more in casual conversations, especially after movies like 2012, The Road and Inception (to be released this Friday)—and now, the scary BP oil leak in the gulf. Helium’s article by Terrence Aym suggests that “251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all life on Earth.” Aym claims that another methane bubble formed 55 million years later. Several scientists say there are warning signs in the gulf of this happening for a third time. Time magazine’s NewsFeed picked up the story and went into panic mode saying, “This is news that goes beyond ‘spooky scary’ into ‘start-reevaluating-your-life scary.’” But NewsFeed then presented a counter argument. They cited an interview with Gary Byerly, a geoloist at Louisiana State University who says, “The idea that there could be a catastrophic cave in, or a methane gas explosion, that’s not a reasonable worry.… The rock formations on top of this oil deposit have enough strength that nothing like that is going to happen.” Now a key scientist cited by Aym denies he predicted doom for mankind. Discover magazine links to full debunking here. While we all relax a bit, who is the public supposed to believe? Remember Climategate? Leaked e-mails between scientists cast public doubt on the integrity of the global warming argument. A few months before the conference and the emails, 84 percent of scientists said the Earth was getting warmer because of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels, while only 49 percent of the public agreed. Skeptics of global warming had a field day, or more appropriately, a bunch of snow days this winter as the inches started to build and the temperatures continued to drop. But this season, as Juliet Eilperin cites for the Washington Post’s Post Carbon, “Some environmental activists might be tempted to point to this summer's heat waves to bolster their case.” Maybe the tone will change as the public pants in front of their fans.
Jul 13, 2010 / Melanie Breault
Catholicism, Homosexuality, Hate Speech, and Incompetence Catholicism, Homosexuality, Hate Speech, and Incompetence
A morality tale at the University of Illinois.
Jul 13, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation
All-Star Speak Out: Baseball Players Pledge to Boycott Arizona All Star Game All-Star Speak Out: Baseball Players Pledge to Boycott Arizona All Star Game
Several Major League Baseball All Stars will boycott the 2011 All-Star game if it takes place in Arizona. It's time for Commissioner Bud Selig to wake up.
Jul 13, 2010 / Dave Zirin
Weaning Louisiana Off its Oil Addiction Weaning Louisiana Off its Oil Addiction
On The Nation on Grit TV, Mark Hertsgaard argues that oil to Louisiana is like heroin to an addict. It's high time we started the weaning process.
Jul 12, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
Is the Financial Regulation Bill ‘Socialist’? Don’t Make the Socialists Laugh Is the Financial Regulation Bill ‘Socialist’? Don’t Make the Socialists Laugh
Senate Republicans keep griping that financial regulation is government gone too far. It's not. And it's certainly not "socialism."
Jul 12, 2010 / John Nichols
Vanden Heuvel on Guns, Jobs and Arizona Vanden Heuvel on Guns, Jobs and Arizona
Guest-host Both Sides Now, Katrina vanden Heuvel takes on former Bush/Cheney aide Mary Matalin about gun control and why she would take "porno economics" over the Repub...
Jul 12, 2010 / Press Room