Obama Takes a Populist Stand in His State of the Union

But Washington won't follow through unless the grassroots insurgency of Wisconsin and Occupy grows.

The Editors

What If ‘Citizens United’ Actually United the Citizens?

A week full of progressive victories—SOPA, Keystone and Wisconsin recall efforts—bring great reminders about the long game of organizing.

Ilyse Hogue

Noted.

George Zornick on Keystone pipeline politics, Liliana Segura on Alabama’s death row “mailroom mix-up,” Daniel Denvir on Pennsylva...

Various Contributors

Wisconsin Rises Up Against Walker

What does democracy look like? Try a grassroots campaign organized by ordinary citizens to recall their union-busting governor.

John Nichols

Our Student Prize-winners

Congratulations to the winners of The Nation's sixth annual Student Writing Contest.

The Nation

The Bain of His Existence

Art

Robert Grossman

Two Attempts to Explain the Resurrection of Newt Gingrich

Calvin Trillin

Of Semites and ‘Anti-Semites’

In today’s media climate, it’s much easier to smear critics of the push for war on Iran as “anti-Semites” than to deal honestly with the facts.

Eric Alterman

Beware Celebrations of Republican Disarray

The populism of the right is coalescing around the race-bating extremism of Newt Gingrich—and Citizens United is greasing the wheels.

Melissa Harris-Perry

Letters

The dole, relief, welfare, safety net…; spying on Eleanor Roosevelt; pipeline whack-a-mole

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