Extra, Extra–Read All About ACORN Extra, Extra–Read All About ACORN
On Christmas Eve, buried on page A24 of my edition of the New York Times, was this story: "The controversial community organizing group Acorn has not broken any laws in the la...
Jan 5, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Move Your Money Move Your Money
As national banks soak up bailout dollars, cut lending, and exploit overdraft fees, a number of Americans have decided to move their money to local banks.
Jan 5, 2010 / Peter Rothberg
Dem Leaders Scheme to Scrap Health-Reform Conference Committee Dem Leaders Scheme to Scrap Health-Reform Conference Committee
Progressive activists have put a good deal of energy into preparing for an anticipated House-Senate conference committee, in which the distinct health-care reform bills enacted by...
Jan 5, 2010 / John Nichols
Tip The Balance In Favor of Family Farms & Good Food Tip The Balance In Favor of Family Farms & Good Food
"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness." -- Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1787 "Burn ...
Jan 4, 2010 / John Nichols
Holding Firm on Iran Holding Firm on Iran
With the start of the new year, pressure is building on the White House from assorted hawks, hardliners, neoconservatives, and pro-Israel lobbyists for President Obama to abandon ...
Jan 4, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
It is Time for Obama and the Rest of Us to “Ring In The True” It is Time for Obama and the Rest of Us to “Ring In The True”
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Jan 1, 2010 / John Nichols
Looking Back Looking Back
It was a tough year at the end of a rough decade but there were some under-appreciated progressive victories that should inspire hope for 2010.
Dec 31, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
The Nation 2010 The Nation 2010
For 145 years, these core principles have informed and animated The Nation's thinking and work: passionate support for civil rights and civil liberties, opposition to corruption an...
Dec 31, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Good Riddance to Decade That Began With Theft of the Presidency Good Riddance to Decade That Began With Theft of the Presidency
The British press has taken to referring to the passing decade as "the Noughties" has made quite a big deal of trying to identify the political, economic and cultural trends of pe...
Dec 31, 2009 / John Nichols
Joe Lieberman: How About Another War? Joe Lieberman: How About Another War?
Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, who began openly and aggressively angling for a war with Iraq just weeks after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washing...
Dec 28, 2009 / John Nichols