Workers Organize at Firestone, Liberia’s ‘State Within a State’ Workers Organize at Firestone, Liberia’s ‘State Within a State’
Workers tapping rubber at the Firestone plantation in Liberia are struggling for better wages and working conditions—and pushing their employer to stop polluting the land and...
Jul 8, 2010 / Nicholas Jahr
Rebuild and Read: Books for a Post-Katrina Middle School Rebuild and Read: Books for a Post-Katrina Middle School
You can help the rebuilding and spread the love of reading.
Jul 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Wall Street Not Giving to Dems: Good Riddance Wall Street Not Giving to Dems: Good Riddance
Isn't it time legislators focus on diminishing the strings-attached purchasing power of corporate campaign contributions?
Jul 8, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama, At Length Obama, At Length
On the EPA, Clint Eastwood and German soccer.
Jul 8, 2010 / Eric Alterman
Facing Up to Violence Against LGBT Youth Behind Bars Facing Up to Violence Against LGBT Youth Behind Bars
Daniel Redman appears on The Nation on Grit TV to describe how the juvenile justice system sends queer youth to prison in disproportionate numbers, fails to protect them from viole...
Jul 8, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
Violence Against LGBT Youth Behind Bars Violence Against LGBT Youth Behind Bars
Daniel Redman joins The Nation on Grit TV to describe how the brutal and dysfunctional juvenile justice system sends queer youth to prison in disproportionate numbers, fails to ...
Jul 8, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
More Than 1,000 Young People Gather in DC More Than 1,000 Young People Gather in DC
Coming together for Campus Progress's National Conference to develop ideas, networks and innovations that can help create a more progressive America.
Jul 8, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation
Lebron James: The Uncool Lebron James: The Uncool
There is already a big loser in tonight's Lebron James-ESPN-free agent-jamboree. It's Lebron James.
Jul 8, 2010 / Dave Zirin
Who Fights and Why? Who Fights and Why?
Winter Bone—if you haven't seen this extraordinary, woman-directed film about a family in trouble in the Ozarks of Missouri, I recommend it. Grim it is. Irrelevant it is not.
Jul 8, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Top 10 Most Patriotic Songs Ever: Nation Readers Speak Top 10 Most Patriotic Songs Ever: Nation Readers Speak
Nation readers' pick!
Jul 8, 2010 / Peter Rothberg