Despite Shocking Reports of Fraud at Charter Schools, Lawmakers Miss Opportunity to Increase Oversight Despite Shocking Reports of Fraud at Charter Schools, Lawmakers Miss Opportunity to Increase Oversight
The fact that Democrats did not rally around bids for better oversight indicates how murky the party’s education platform has grown.
May 9, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
Editors Don’t Belong in Courtrooms, and Cecily McMillan Doesn’t Belong in Prison Editors Don’t Belong in Courtrooms, and Cecily McMillan Doesn’t Belong in Prison
The jury that convicted the Occupier on May 5 had only been given one side of the story.
May 9, 2014 / Kathryn Funkhouser
What’s Behind Rand Paul’s Israel Feint? What’s Behind Rand Paul’s Israel Feint?
The noted liberatarian-isolationist is making a bid for support from the Israel lobby, but it’s not going well.
May 8, 2014 / Bob and Barbara Dreyfuss
Does Judge Rudolph Randa Have a Conflict in the Scott Walker Case? Does Judge Rudolph Randa Have a Conflict in the Scott Walker Case?
His judicial assistant is married to a top lawyer for Walker’s gubernatorial campaign.
May 8, 2014 / George Zornick
Did Congress’s Best Plan for NSA Reform Just Lose Its Teeth? Did Congress’s Best Plan for NSA Reform Just Lose Its Teeth?
A bill considered among the strongest of several competing bids to curb government spying has passed a major legislative hurdle—but not without significant trimming.
May 8, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
Will the State Department Torpedo Its Last Great Program? Will the State Department Torpedo Its Last Great Program?
Long advertised as a flaship program for American cultural diplomacy, the Fulbright Program is now facing devastating budget cuts.
May 8, 2014 / Ann Jones
LIVE: A Conversation with Senator Bernie Sanders LIVE: A Conversation with Senator Bernie Sanders
John Nichols joins the independent senator from Vermont to talk about ways to reduce America’s runaway inequality, this Friday at 7pm EST.
May 8, 2014 / The Nation
The GOP’s Healthcare Plan: Get Sick, Die Quickly The GOP’s Healthcare Plan: Get Sick, Die Quickly
The Nation editor and MSNBC host says we have the facts to show that expanding Obamacare will save lives. Not doing so will cost them.
May 7, 2014 / Chris Hayes
Bernie Sanders Asks Fed Chair Whether the US Is an Oligarchy Bernie Sanders Asks Fed Chair Whether the US Is an Oligarchy
Janet Yellen admits evidence of how inequality is “very worrisome.”
May 7, 2014 / John Nichols
Condoleezza Rice Withdraws as Rutgers Commencement Speaker in Face of Protest Over Her Promotion of the War in Iraq Condoleezza Rice Withdraws as Rutgers Commencement Speaker in Face of Protest Over Her Promotion of the War in Iraq
“We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” —Condoleezza Rice, in 2003, on why we had to invade Iraq That quote stood out—the truly catchy one Within the bunkum that the White House spun. It’s made her someone many want to shun. Her smoking gun is now her smoking gun.
May 7, 2014 / Column / Calvin Trillin