Solution to Unemployment: Pay People to Work Shorter Hours Solution to Unemployment: Pay People to Work Shorter Hours
There is an easy way to get unemployed workers back to work: pay them to work shorter hours.
Nov 17, 2009 / Dean Baker
Going Rouge: An American Nightmare Going Rouge: An American Nightmare
Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel weighs in on Sarah Palin's book tour and our magazine's book countering it.
Nov 17, 2009 / MSNBC
The World’s Women Stuck in the UN’s Blind Spot The World’s Women Stuck in the UN’s Blind Spot
"Mainstreaming" a focus on women into all of the United Nations' work never happened. So will an agency for women ever get off the ground?
Nov 17, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
Affectionate Jousting with Michael Tomasky Affectionate Jousting with Michael Tomasky
My good friend Michael Tomasky has a blog over at The Guardian... I consider it what he called it in his subject line--an "affectionate joust." (Mike is an ace former Na...
Nov 17, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sex, Lies and Sarah Palin Sex, Lies and Sarah Palin
The Nation's Richard Kim joins a conversation on Sarah Palin's recent media blitz and the impact it could have on our country's politics.
Nov 17, 2009 / GRITtv
Newsweek Taps Bush Aide For Obama Reporting (Updated) Newsweek Taps Bush Aide For Obama Reporting (Updated)
See if you can follow this logic. A recent article in Newsweek states that Democrats could have won a "very significant number of Republican votes in Congress" for the s...
Nov 17, 2009 / Ari Melber
The View from China The View from China
When Yiang Jiemian, president of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, gets together with his brother, Yang Jiechi, China's minister of foreign affairs, they don't ta...
Nov 17, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Bonanza for Over-Builders Bonanza for Over-Builders
I just don't get it. When Congress approves gifts worth billions of dollars to people who don't deserve a dime, why isn't it front page news? On Nov. 6, when President Obama sign...
Nov 17, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Congress Can Move Now to Prevent Layoffs, Plant Closings Congress Can Move Now to Prevent Layoffs, Plant Closings
Recognizing the social, economic and political threat posed by double-digit unemployment numbers, and by the prospect that those numbers are continuing to rise, key Democratic sen...
Nov 17, 2009 / John Nichols
The Palin Effect The Palin Effect
Why Sarah Palin can't be stopped from going nuclear inside the Republican Party.
Nov 16, 2009 / Feature / Max Blumenthal