Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (10/21) Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important Stories (10/21)
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.
Oct 24, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation
Out of Exile: On Visiting Occupy USA With Dr. John Carlos Out of Exile: On Visiting Occupy USA With Dr. John Carlos
Seeing the encampments with 1968 Olympian Dr. John Carlos has been an experience I will never forget.
Oct 24, 2011 / Blog / Dave Zirin
Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America’s Wildest School Board Race Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America’s Wildest School Board Race
Denver's contest for local school board seats has already cost $600,000, as big-money backers of school privatization, charters and “choice” try to buy control of educa...
Oct 21, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Relatively Speaking Relatively Speaking
Eric on how The New Republic's back of the book comes close to redeeming the magazine from the front.
Oct 21, 2011 / Blog / Eric Alterman
Why a Mortgage Cramdown Bill Is Still the Best Bet to Save the Economy Why a Mortgage Cramdown Bill Is Still the Best Bet to Save the Economy
If all underwater mortgages were written down to market value and refinanced, it would add $71 billion a year to the economy and create 1 million jobs.
Oct 20, 2011 / Alex Ulam
Let Them Eat Bill Keller Let Them Eat Bill Keller
Funny, he doesn’t look like Marie Antoinette. But former New York Times Executive Editor Keller displays the arrogance of disoriented royal privilege.
Oct 20, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Eve Ensler: Wall Street and Women’s Work Eve Ensler: Wall Street and Women’s Work
How can women make their voices central to the debate that the Occupy movement has created?
Oct 19, 2011 / Video / Francis Reynolds and Emily Douglas
Local Governments Slash Funding for Domestic Violence Survivors Local Governments Slash Funding for Domestic Violence Survivors
Topeka, Kansas, decriminalized domestic violence to save money. It’s not the only city to cut services to survivors of abuse, just as the need escalates.
Oct 19, 2011 / Bryce Covert
In the Clear: On Scientology In the Clear: On Scientology
The body of the church of Scientology is not well. Will its main legacy be its contribution to US tax law?
Oct 18, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Mark Oppenheimer
On the Racing Death of Indy 500 Champion Dan Wheldon On the Racing Death of Indy 500 Champion Dan Wheldon
The death of Dan Wheldon raises real issues of workplace safety in motor sports.
Oct 18, 2011 / Blog / Dave Zirin