If Switzerland Can Crack Down on CEOs, Why Not the US? If Switzerland Can Crack Down on CEOs, Why Not the US?
Swiss voters just empowered shareholders to restrict and restrain corporate abuses. The US should follow their lead, especially when it comes to corporate influence on campaigns.&n...
Mar 4, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
This Week: Stumbling Toward Sequestration This Week: Stumbling Toward Sequestration
The $85 billion sequester will hurt our economy—and our people.
Mar 2, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
John Nichols: Where’s Ronald Reagan When You Need Him? John Nichols: Where’s Ronald Reagan When You Need Him?
Why are Capitol Hill’s austerity hawks driving the budget conversation?
Mar 1, 2013 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Sequestration Is Here: The Danger That Lies Ahead Sequestration Is Here: The Danger That Lies Ahead
Progressives shouldn’t confuse a political victory with a policy victory on the sequester.
Mar 1, 2013 / Blog / George Zornick
Did the DC Circuit Court Give a Green Light for Union-Busting? Did the DC Circuit Court Give a Green Light for Union-Busting?
The Communications Workers of America says that the ruling overturning Obama’s nominations emboldened employers—like the one that terminated twenty-two union activists....
Mar 1, 2013 / Blog / Josh Eidelson
Dispatches From the US Student Movement: March 1 Dispatches From the US Student Movement: March 1
This week, students across the country rail against program cuts, tuition hikes and racist university policies. What’s next for reproductive justice in Alabama? Could Congres...
Mar 1, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
This Week in Poverty: Gangnam-Style Counting With Senator Jeff Sessions This Week in Poverty: Gangnam-Style Counting With Senator Jeff Sessions
Republican Senator Jeff Sessions uses some very creative math to prove that people in poverty have incomes that are similar to the middle class.
Mar 1, 2013 / Blog / Greg Kaufmann
Gotta Sequester? Or Was Cheney Right That ‘Deficits Don’t Matter’? Gotta Sequester? Or Was Cheney Right That ‘Deficits Don’t Matter’?
There is a lot of hypocrisy in the sudden Republican obsession with deficits and debt.
Mar 1, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
Josh Eidelson: Working in the Walmart Economy Josh Eidelson: Working in the Walmart Economy
In an interview with The Billfold, Nation labor reporter Josh Eidelson discusses labor organizing, labor journalism and the range of worker struggles happening now.&...
Feb 28, 2013 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Financial Transactions Tax Introduced Again—Can It Pass This Time? Financial Transactions Tax Introduced Again—Can It Pass This Time?
The tariff on transactions would cost the average investor little while deterring risky high-volume trading—and Jack Lew seems open to the idea.
Feb 28, 2013 / Blog / George Zornick