Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories
Every week, Nation interns try to cut through the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention. ...
Jul 28, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation
Colbert Challenges the Poverty Deniers Colbert Challenges the Poverty Deniers
Stephen Colbert, with the help of Nation friend Peter Edelman, takes on right-wing poverty deniers with integrity and humor.
Jul 28, 2011 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Wired World of Sports The Wired World of Sports
The general public is a lot more knowledgable about matters of sports labor issues, and everything else, than it was a decade ago.
Jul 27, 2011 / Feature / Will Leitch
Sports and Spectacle Sports and Spectacle
Sports radio show how people want to use their intelligence in complex discussions.
Jul 27, 2011 / Feature / Noam Chomsky
Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage With Balance Bias Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage With Balance Bias
The misleading press coverage of the debt fight reveals a fundamental problem with today’s journalism—the quest for innocence and balance when it does not exist.
Jul 27, 2011 / The Notion / Ari Melber
Busting Murdoch’s Trust Busting Murdoch’s Trust
Rupert Murdoch is far from blameless—but he’s merely a symptom of the real disease: so much power in a single media corporation.
Jul 27, 2011 / Editorial / The Editors
Be Fair to the Bachmanns Be Fair to the Bachmanns
There are plenty of real problems with Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus. But her migraines and his mannerisms are not two of them.
Jul 25, 2011 / The Notion / Ben Adler
Murdoch’s First-Responder Rescue Hero Wasn’t ‘Tiger Wife’ Wendi Murdoch’s First-Responder Rescue Hero Wasn’t ‘Tiger Wife’ Wendi
It was a whole other person, but such details don’t fit the narrative.
Jul 22, 2011 / The Notion / Leslie Savan
Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories
The stories the MSM is missing.
Jul 22, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation
A Great Day Dawns for UK Media A Great Day Dawns for UK Media
Thanks to the Guardian’s intrepid reporting, Britain has been released from the malign influence of the Murdoch empire.
Jul 21, 2011 / Misha Glenny