Who Fights and Why? Who Fights and Why?
Winter Bone—if you haven't seen this extraordinary, woman-directed film about a family in trouble in the Ozarks of Missouri, I recommend it. Grim it is. Irrelevant it is not.
Jul 8, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fix the Jobs Crisis, Then the Deficit Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fix the Jobs Crisis, Then the Deficit
While conservative media obsesses over the deficit and Republicans are knocking down job creation plans left and right, Obama will have to convince the American people that the def...
Jul 7, 2010 / Video / The Nation on Grit TV
Bring America Home: William Greider on CAN TV Bring America Home: William Greider on CAN TV
Speaking before the Democratic Socialists of America in Chicago, The Nation's William Greider draws parallels between the political realities of today and the challenges labor a...
Jul 6, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Bring America Home: William Greider on CAN TV Bring America Home: William Greider on CAN TV
Speaking before the Democratic Socialists of America in Chicago, The Nation's William Greider draws parallels between the political realities of today and the challenges labor act...
An Unequal-Opportunity Recession An Unequal-Opportunity Recession
The distribution of damage done by the Great Recession is not equal. African-Americans, men and low-skilled workers have been hardest hit.
Jun 30, 2010 / Feature / Katherine S. Newman and David Pedulla
American Incomes: Soaring or Static American Incomes: Soaring or Static
Addressing wage stagnation should be the country's top priority.
Jun 30, 2010 / Feature / Jeff Madrick
Labor’s Convoluted Future Labor’s Convoluted Future
The Nation's Max Fraser and Michael Whitney of Firedoglake join Laura Flanders to deconstruct the ways in which labor's long-term alliance with the Democratic party is in trou...
Jun 24, 2010 / Nation in the News / The Nation on Grit TV
Labor’s Convoluted Future Labor’s Convoluted Future
The Nation's Max Fraser and Michael Whitney of Firedoglake join Laura Flanders to deconstruct the ways in which labor's long-term alliance with the Democratic party is in troubl...
Jun 24, 2010 / Video / The Nation on Grit TV
War on Public Workers War on Public Workers
Scapegoating public employees is an insidious way of dividing public and private sector workers who share common interests.
Tear Gas in Cananea Tear Gas in Cananea
The strike at Cananea highlights the extremely unsafe conditions of Mexican mines.
Jun 16, 2010 / Editorial / David Bacon