Domestic Workers Need Rights–but Can Working Families Afford What They’ll Cost? Domestic Workers Need Rights–but Can Working Families Afford What They’ll Cost?
As domestic workers win state-level struggles for workplace protections, their employers—many of them middle-class families—get stuck with the bill, while the governmen...
Jun 28, 2011 / Bryce Covert
29 Miners and Massey’s Coal Crimes 29 Miners and Massey’s Coal Crimes
A report released last month found that Massey Energy was largely responsible for the mine explosion that killed 29 people. But little justice has been rendered.
Jun 26, 2011 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Fitzwalkerstan ‘Justice’: Wisconsin Governor Walker’s Judicial Fixer Accused of Assaulting Dissenting Jurist Fitzwalkerstan ‘Justice’: Wisconsin Governor Walker’s Judicial Fixer Accused of Assaulting Dissenting Jurist
As Justice David Prosser was battling on the state Supreme Court on behalf of Governor Walker's anti-labor agenda, he reportedly attacked a justice who disagreed with him. This is ...
Jun 25, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Nurses March on Wall Street for Fair Taxes Nurses March on Wall Street for Fair Taxes
On June 22, several hundred nurses and progressive activists marched on Wall Street in New York demanding a new tax on financial transactions.
Jun 24, 2011 / Video / The Nation
Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Dan Coughlin on WikiLeaks Haiti Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Dan Coughlin on WikiLeaks Haiti
The explosive diplomatic cables prove what many Haitians already knew about US and UN meddling in the country.
Jun 24, 2011 / Audio / The Nation
A Great Big Win for Labor and (Real) National Security: 40,000 TSA Screeners Go Union A Great Big Win for Labor and (Real) National Security: 40,000 TSA Screeners Go Union
Republican senators and the right-wing echo chamber did everything they could to prevent unionization of airport screeners. The union drive succeeded anyway.
Jun 23, 2011 / John Nichols
Nation Conversations: Rose Ann DeMoro on Demanding a Decent Standard of Living For All Americans Nation Conversations: Rose Ann DeMoro on Demanding a Decent Standard of Living For All Americans
Rose Ann DeMoro discusses the Mainstreet Contract for America, a new activist movement inspired by nurses but extending to everyone.
Jun 21, 2011 / Audio / The Nation
The Attack on the Middle Class (and the Plan to Fight Back) The Attack on the Middle Class (and the Plan to Fight Back)
The Nation's Ari Melber joins a panel of progressive advocates to encourage Americans to reunite and rebuild our country through demanding what we have always wanted—good job...
Jun 20, 2011 / Video / The Nation
John Nichols: When Union Busting Meets Mass Mobilization John Nichols: When Union Busting Meets Mass Mobilization
John Nichols joins Laura Flanders at Netroots Nation to discuss political and digital organization, and a new group that he refers to as the "next roots"—the studen...
Jun 20, 2011 / Video / Free Speech TV
Supreme Court Decides That Walmart’s a ‘Too-Big-for-Justice’ Corporation Supreme Court Decides That Walmart’s a ‘Too-Big-for-Justice’ Corporation
The Court says that the nation's largest private employer can't be taken to task for discriminating against women because that discrimination appears to have taken place on a massi...
Jun 20, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols