Politics

Will You Go Broke to Keep Your House? Will You Go Broke to Keep Your House?

Will Obama's $75 billion homeowner bailout plan work? Fair housing activists Sarah Ludwig, Paul Leonard and others discuss the foreclosure crisis.

Feb 18, 2009 / Video / GRITtv

Good Money After Bad Good Money After Bad

Obama's stimulus bill is far too modest to arrest an economy in free fall. But if it were up to the GOP, which largely created the mess, we'd be doing nothing at all.

Feb 18, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer

Stop the Looting of Social Security Stop the Looting of Social Security

The Nation's William Greider warns that if progressives don't engage with President Obama more, forces advocating for 'entitlement reform' will gut social security.

Feb 17, 2009 / Video / Brett Story

President Obama and Progressives President Obama and Progressives

The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel argues progressives must keep pressure on the administration to move the country in a new direction.

Feb 16, 2009 / Video / The Real News Network

Power Shift 09 Power Shift 09

In two weeks students will lead the largest day of lobbying on climate change in US history.

Feb 16, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation

William Greider Responds William Greider Responds

William Greider defends his analysis of how Social Security is threatened by entitlement reformists.

Feb 14, 2009 / Editorial / William Greider

The Peterson Foundation Responds The Peterson Foundation Responds

David M. Walker, president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, responds to William Greider's essay, Looting Wall Street, published in the March 2 edition of The Nation.

Feb 13, 2009 / Editorial / The Nation

WSF: Is Another World Possible? WSF: Is Another World Possible?

At a time of economic, climatic and political crisis, advocates of social justice gathered for the annual World Social Forum to contemplate a new vision for a better world.

Feb 13, 2009 / Feature / Tim Costello and Brendan Smith

Great Expectations for Obama Great Expectations for Obama

Is the watered-down stimulus bill a signal of a more ambitious agenda for Obama or a harbinger of reduced expectations?

Feb 12, 2009 / Video

Obama Backslides on ‘State Secrets’ Obama Backslides on ‘State Secrets’

The president has shown a troubling unwillingness to acknowledge the wrongs the Bush administration committed.

Feb 12, 2009 / Editorial / David Cole

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