Nobel Peace Sparks War Nobel Peace Sparks War
It's peculiar, the vocabulary that makes a liability out of the Nobel Prize.
Oct 21, 2009 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Why the Health Insurance Excise Tax Is a Bad Idea Why the Health Insurance Excise Tax Is a Bad Idea
Max Baucus's scheme to tax the benefits of workers slightly better off--so revenue can be raised for private insurance subsidies--is a lose-lose proposition.
Oct 21, 2009 / Steve Early and Rand Wilson
Pelosi Champions the Public Option Pelosi Champions the Public Option
A Congressional Budget Office report suggesting that a robust public option would actually cut the deficit seems to have lit a fire under Speaker Pelosi.
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Lindsay Beyerstein
Low-Income Students Need your Help! UPDATED Low-Income Students Need your Help! UPDATED
The school year is well underway, and most of you know how savage the budget cuts have been. Excellent teachers who care about their students –yes, they exist! --are struggli...
Oct 21, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
The Right Goes Viral The Right Goes Viral
A new site lets you rate teachers, review textbooks and "raise awareness about America’s slide to communism."
Oct 21, 2009 / StudentNation / Francis Reynolds
Seeing Through the ‘Morehouse Mystique’ Seeing Through the ‘Morehouse Mystique’
New clothing rules reveal Morehouse College's disregard for the T in LGBT.
Oct 20, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation
A Female Economics Laureate: Why Only Now? A Female Economics Laureate: Why Only Now?
The first female winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics serves as both a landmark and an alarming reflection of the limited role of women in the physical sciences.
Oct 15, 2009 / Feature / Sarah Stodola
Slide Show: Gay Rights Now Slide Show: Gay Rights Now
Oct 15, 2009 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Will Congress Pass a Strong Public Option? Will Congress Pass a Strong Public Option?
Author Sharon Lerner and Rep. Raul Grijalva discuss flaws in the Senate Finance Committee's health bill and increased popular support for a public option.
Oct 15, 2009 / GRITtv
Facebookers, Unite! Help MADRE Win the Causes Challenge Facebookers, Unite! Help MADRE Win the Causes Challenge
MADRE, the women's rights organization, has joined a contest to raise funds for its work protecting women's rights workers in Afghanistan, where as I'm sure you know many have be...
Oct 15, 2009 / Katha Pollitt