This Week: A Beginning in Mortgage Settlement. PLUS: Lessons From Planned Parenthood This Week: A Beginning in Mortgage Settlement. PLUS: Lessons From Planned Parenthood
This week, DC reporter George Zornick details the good, the bad and the ugly in the mortgage settlement. Ilyse Hogue takes on former Komen vice president Karen Handle. And a look t...
Feb 10, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Pro-Choice and Catholic Groups Praise Compromise on Contraceptive Access Pro-Choice and Catholic Groups Praise Compromise on Contraceptive Access
Does the US Conference of Catholic Bishops care more about playing politics than serving Catholics?
Feb 10, 2012 / Emily Douglas
From Nation Interns: This Week’s Top Stories (2/9) From Nation Interns: This Week’s Top Stories (2/9)
Each week, The Nation interns pick compelling stories in their areas of interest.
Feb 9, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation
John Sifton: Why Do Drones Disturb Us? John Sifton: Why Do Drones Disturb Us?
What makes drones so frightening to us now, when they have actually been around for decades?
Feb 9, 2012 / The Nation
The Protocols of the Elders of Sheldon The Protocols of the Elders of Sheldon
In light of a Pew Research Center survey on public engagement with the presidential campaign, Reed looks at how biased the media has become.
Feb 9, 2012 / Eric Alterman
Feel the Lin-sanity: Why Jeremy Lin Is More Than a Cultural Curio Feel the Lin-sanity: Why Jeremy Lin Is More Than a Cultural Curio
Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin is the first Asian-American in the NBA. He’s also a lot more.
Feb 9, 2012 / Dave Zirin
The Komen Turnaround Was a Defensive Victory The Komen Turnaround Was a Defensive Victory
Forcing the Komen reversal was huge—but it was a campaign born of outrage, not ambitious vision.
Feb 8, 2012 / The Editors
Sheldon Adelson and the End of American Anti-Semitism Sheldon Adelson and the End of American Anti-Semitism
How can it be that the “richest Jew in the world” can buy the foreign policy of a major party’s presidential contender and “the Jews” have somehow escaped the blame?
Feb 8, 2012 / Column / Eric Alterman
Replacing History With Fiction in Arizona Replacing History With Fiction in Arizona
The authors of Arizona’s new law want to collapse Latino identity into white American mythology.
Feb 8, 2012 / Column / Gary Younge
Santorum’s Symbolic Victories Santorum’s Symbolic Victories
Don’t believe the media hype. Tuesday’s events awarded no delegates, and it’s too soon to say what Rick Santorum’s nominal wins will mean.
Feb 8, 2012 / Ben Adler