This Week at TheNation.com: A Weekend Movie Primer; Plus: How to Help in Pakistan. This Week at TheNation.com: A Weekend Movie Primer; Plus: How to Help in Pakistan.
"The Tillman Story" opens this weekend, and as Greg Mitchell writes in his Media Fix blog, the reviews are in. Mitchell has written extensively about the Tillman case and the film; he previewed the movie and ran the trailer in this post at the height of the McChrystal controversy. If you head out to the theater this weekend to see the film, give his commentary a read first. (And while you're prepping for a weekend at the movies, you can read Stuart Klawans latest here. Klawans reviews Christopher Nolan's Inception; Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime; Samuel Maoz's Lebanon.) Also this week... A Nod from Dennis Kucinich on "Extra-Judicial" Killings It is important to see that someone in Washington is treating "extrajudicial assassinations" seriously. Rep. Kucinich, with six co-sponsors, has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would prohibit "the extrajudicial killing of United States Citizens" and end this horrific breach of civil liberties. We were honored to see that Kucinich cites Jeremy Scahill's reporting from November (The Secret U.S. War in Pakistan) as part of the rationale for the legislation. Scahill's reporting is linked from H.R. 6010, which you can read here. Video: The Public Housing Crisis Nation contributor Kai Wright was on this week's The Nation on GRIT TV, discussing the recent desperation over public housing vouchers in Atlanta - and the housing crisis around the country. Wright was joined by housing organizer Tony Romano. There are few needs more basic than shelter; in his reporting for The Nation and Colorlines, Wright has written at length about the struggles of black families trying to hold own to their homes, or even their rentals. This segment is an outstanding primer to the crisis in public housing our country faces today. Watch here. Video: Is This The Era of "Bad Sports?" Our Sports writer Dave Zirin was on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Thursday exposing some real socialism in our midst: America is socializing the debt of sports, while privatizing the profits. “If public money goes into a team, I think the public should, at the very least, afford tickets, but at the very most have a piece of the team as well," he says. Check out the whole segment here. Act Now: How to Help in Pakistan The crisis in Pakistan hasn't received the attention of other recent disasters, but the situation is more than just a humanitarian crisis - it imperils whatever fragile stability is holding this volatile region together. In this Act Now post, Peter Rothberg runs through the ways you can help Pakistan, where 20% of the country is under water, and twenty million people are homeless. Find out more here. - - - - - - Thanks for reading. As always you can keep up by following The Nation on Facebook here, or follow me on Twitter—I'm@KatrinaNation.
Aug 20, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
AFL Takes On Foreclosures and Payday Lending AFL Takes On Foreclosures and Payday Lending
An interview with AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker on Big Banks and a new approach to prevent home foreclosure.
Aug 19, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
It’s About Main Street, Not the Mosque It’s About Main Street, Not the Mosque
The party with solutions to the country's economic woes will be the winners come November.
Aug 17, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The ‘Principled Left’ Obama Needs The ‘Principled Left’ Obama Needs
The Left has learned the hard way that it needs to be independent of Obama to realize the change it's seeking.
Aug 15, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week At TheNation.com: How Progressives Won the Health Care Battle. Plus: Two New Videos This Week At TheNation.com: How Progressives Won the Health Care Battle. Plus: Two New Videos
Richard Kirsch on how progressives won the health care battle—and how we can advance those lessons into other campaigns for social justice. Plus, Greg Mitchell on NPR's...
Aug 13, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Happy 75th Birthday, Social Security Happy 75th Birthday, Social Security
On the 75th anniversary of Social Security, those who would axe benefits are spreading myths designed to make you think there's a looming crisis. It's simply just not true.
Aug 13, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What Anti-Obamacare Lawsuits Are Really About What Anti-Obamacare Lawsuits Are Really About
The attorneys general in Florida and Virginia who are attacking America's uninsured ought to think about who really benefits from the politicization of well-being.
Aug 12, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Rising to the Task of Slowing Down Rising to the Task of Slowing Down
If we are to produce not only our best work, but also our best lives, we need to think hard about developing a different attitude toward time.
Aug 11, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Idle Iron, Vital Workers Idle Iron, Vital Workers
Congressman Raúl Grijalva's plan to clean up abandoned oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico would hold Big Oil accountable, protect the environment and employ gulf coast residents...
Aug 9, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week At TheNation.com: A Nation Article Sparks Debate This Week At TheNation.com: A Nation Article Sparks Debate
Our new TV ad and The Nation's Nuclear Legacy. Plus: Three videos, a podcast and more.
Aug 6, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel