This Week: The Food Movement at 40. PLUS: Get ‘Up with Chris Hayes’ This Week: The Food Movement at 40. PLUS: Get ‘Up with Chris Hayes’
This week, The Nation’s special issue takes stock of the food movement at 40. Plus, “ALEC Exposed” wins a Sidney, Chris Hayes’s new show debuts on MSNBC, an...
Sep 16, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Not Just Another Day (At War) Not Just Another Day (At War)
Eric on a Shakespeare reimagining and Reed on the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Sep 16, 2011 / Eric Alterman
Supreme Court Blocks Rick Perry’s Texecution of Inmate ‘Based on the Color of His Skin’ Supreme Court Blocks Rick Perry’s Texecution of Inmate ‘Based on the Color of His Skin’
GOP front-runner Perry says he “never struggled” with questions about whether Texas is wrongfully executing death row inmates. But the High Court has intervened to say ...
Sep 16, 2011 / John Nichols
Melissa Harris-Perry: Is the Economic Downturn Lowering SAT Scores? Melissa Harris-Perry: Is the Economic Downturn Lowering SAT Scores?
New low SAT scores reflect the economic downturn and a more diverse student pool that consists of more minority students, first generation college-goers and non-English speaking st...
Sep 15, 2011 / MSNBC
The Problem of Media Stupidity The Problem of Media Stupidity
Why do the media believe that they must behave like idiots in order to be “fair” to the Republicans and their idiotic ideas?
Sep 14, 2011 / Column / Eric Alterman
Untangling the HPV Vaccine Debate Untangling the HPV Vaccine Debate
Rick Perry got something right, Michele Bachmann is all wrong, but we all need to think harder about whether the HPV vaccine should be mandatory.
Sep 14, 2011 / Dana Goldstein
Allison Kilkenny: Saving the Postal Service Without Privatizing It Allison Kilkenny: Saving the Postal Service Without Privatizing It
The post office has come under fire from fiscal hawks for running a $9 billion deficit, and the threats have now reached the point where the service could be closed in a matter of ...
Sep 12, 2011 / Press Room
Where Was the Pat Tillman Story on NFL Sunday? Where Was the Pat Tillman Story on NFL Sunday?
The League embraced its role on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks yet hardly mentioned the late Pat Tillman.
Sep 12, 2011 / Dave Zirin
From Attica to Pelican Bay: How To Heed the Lessons of a Prison Uprising From Attica to Pelican Bay: How To Heed the Lessons of a Prison Uprising
Forty years after Attica, the US prison population is ten times larger.
Sep 12, 2011 / Michael Ratner
Little Love for Labor Little Love for Labor
A new report reveals that high school textbooks are getting a lot wrong about the labor movement.
Sep 12, 2011 / StudentNation / Josh Eidelson