Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (12/9) Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (12/9)
Every week, Nation interns try to cut through the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.
Dec 9, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation
JP Morgan Mic Checked at Princeton JP Morgan Mic Checked at Princeton
Occupy Princeton students mic-check a JP Morgan-Chase Treasury Services info session on December 7, 2011. The first direct action taken up by Occupy Princeton—they promise &l...
Dec 8, 2011 / Laura Flanders
HHS: Let’s Treat ALL Women Like Children HHS: Let’s Treat ALL Women Like Children
Did you assume the politicization of science was gone with the Bush administration and the reality-based community was back in charge? Think again.
Dec 8, 2011 / Katha Pollitt
Politico Pitfalls, McCarthyite Mendacity Politico Pitfalls, McCarthyite Mendacity
Eric on Israel theocracy vs. diaspora democracy, and Alter-reviews.
Dec 8, 2011 / Eric Alterman
‘As a Father of Two Daughters,’ Obama Embraces Politics Over Science on Emergency Contraception ‘As a Father of Two Daughters,’ Obama Embraces Politics Over Science on Emergency Contraception
The FDA made the right decision on EC—and Obama rejected it.
Dec 8, 2011 / Emily Douglas
In Post-Rhee DC, Achievement Gaps Remain Staggeringly Wide In Post-Rhee DC, Achievement Gaps Remain Staggeringly Wide
According to new data, white and middle-class DC students are flying high, while black, Hispanic and poor children continue to lag behind their peers.
Dec 8, 2011 / Dana Goldstein
Nation Conversations: Norm Stamper: The Police Are Not the Military Nation Conversations: Norm Stamper: The Police Are Not the Military
The militarization of our police forces has turned a vital public-safety institution against its own people.
Dec 8, 2011 / The Nation
Republican Ads Get Personal Republican Ads Get Personal
New TV ads from Rick Perry and Mitt Romney have tossed aside any policy discussion in favor of touting their personal religiosity.
Dec 8, 2011 / Ben Adler
Newt Gingrich (Serial Adulterer) Rises as Herman Cain (Alleged Adulterer) Falls Newt Gingrich (Serial Adulterer) Rises as Herman Cain (Alleged Adulterer) Falls
It’s insane that an affair—and not his cockamamie ideas—finished Cain.
Dec 7, 2011 / JoAnn Wypijewski
‘The Proud Liar Mitt Romney Claimed Today’… ‘The Proud Liar Mitt Romney Claimed Today’…
The MSM’s addiction to false equivalence continues to distort our political debate.
Dec 7, 2011 / Column / Eric Alterman