In a Year of Deep Disappointments, The Deepest: Obama Pledged to Protect Internet Freedom; But His FCC Put It At Risk In a Year of Deep Disappointments, The Deepest: Obama Pledged to Protect Internet Freedom; But His FCC Put It At Risk
Despite the president's peomise to protect a free and open Internet, his FCC chair has engineered a Net Neutrality rule change that gives telecommunications corporations openings t...
Dec 31, 2010 / Blog / John Nichols
Slide Show: The Progressive Honor Roll 2010 Slide Show: The Progressive Honor Roll 2010
"The year 2010 will not be remembered as a halcyon year for progressives," writes John Nichols in his Progressive Honor Roll for this year. "But in such years the truest believers and battlers stand out all the more clearly, and patterns are set for the victories of the years to come." Here, then, are the Most Valuable Progressives of 2010 and the groundwork they're laying for 2011.
Dec 30, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
The Fight For Civil Rights Beyond Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell The Fight For Civil Rights Beyond Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Civil rights issues will be central to the success or failure of the Obama presidency.
Dec 23, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room
The Fight For Civil Rights Beyond Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell The Fight For Civil Rights Beyond Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Civil rights issues will be central to the success or failure of the Obama presidency.
Dec 23, 2010 / Video / The Rachel Maddow Show
Action, Hope, 2011 Action, Hope, 2011
Looking forward to 2011, here are a few of the many ideas, organizing efforts and causes worth fighting for as we work together to make this a more just and decent nation.
Dec 23, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Mobilizing the Jobless Mobilizing the Jobless
More than 26 million Americans don't have enough work, while robber-baron CEOs report record profits. So why aren't the unemployed on the march?
Dec 22, 2010 / Editorial / Frances Fox Piven
John Boehner’s House Republicans Finally Find Something They’re For: Salmonella John Boehner’s House Republicans Finally Find Something They’re For: Salmonella
You would think everyone in Congress could agree to be against food poisoning. You would be wrong. The overwhelming majority of House Republicans voted against cracking down on foo...
Dec 22, 2010 / Blog / John Nichols
Fighting Back for Workers’ Rights Fighting Back for Workers’ Rights
As we finish our last-minute holiday shopping, we shouldn't forget the great sacrifices of the workers who make the products we buy and the work still to be done to create safe wo...
Dec 21, 2010 / Edgar Romney
Jonathan Schell: What Will Happen if the Senate Fails to Pass the New START Treaty? Jonathan Schell: What Will Happen if the Senate Fails to Pass the New START Treaty?
What will the consequences be if the Senate doesn't pass the START treaty today?
Dec 21, 2010 / Video / Democracy Now!
Haley Barbour is No Martin Luther King or Even Jimmy Carter Haley Barbour is No Martin Luther King or Even Jimmy Carter
Short observations on the Jim Crow-era White Citizens Councils.
Dec 21, 2010 / Blog / Eric Alterman