In the Next Round of Budget Talks, Big Cuts for Health Research Are Coming In the Next Round of Budget Talks, Big Cuts for Health Research Are Coming
One of the agencies hardest hit by Congress’s 2011 appropriations bill is likely to be the world’s largest investor in biomedical research, the National Institutes of H...
Apr 11, 2011 / Rachel Riederer
From The Archive: Five Pieces by James Baldwin From The Archive: Five Pieces by James Baldwin
The publication of The Cross of Redemption is an occasion to revisit some of the many fine essays and reviews written for The Nation by Baldwin, who was a member of the magazine's...
Apr 11, 2011 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Title IX Resonates Beyond Yale’s Walls Title IX Resonates Beyond Yale’s Walls
The federal investigation of Yale’s sexual climate will hopefully send a message to all universities and university students that rape will no longer be tolerated or excused. Even ...
Apr 11, 2011 / StudentNation / StudentNation
NPR Station in LA Suspends Planned Parenthood Spots NPR Station in LA Suspends Planned Parenthood Spots
A tale of journalistic cowardice.
Apr 10, 2011 / The Notion / Jon Wiener
The Budget Stalemate Is Not About Abortion The Budget Stalemate Is Not About Abortion
Planned Parenthood gets no federal money to provide abortion care. So why does the media keep claiming the looming government shutdown is about “abortion”?
Apr 8, 2011 / Katha Pollitt
Glenn Beck’s Own End Times Foretold Glenn Beck’s Own End Times Foretold
Keeping Beck on might have complicated the Fox-GOP industrial complex’s ability to use government power on behalf of the moneyed interests.
Apr 8, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Improving the Economy Will Prevent Abortions Improving the Economy Will Prevent Abortions
Do Republicans really think they will prevent abortions by defunding Planned Parenthood?
Apr 8, 2011 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Improving the Economy Will Prevent Abortions Improving the Economy Will Prevent Abortions
Do Republicans really think they will prevent abortions by defunding Planned Parenthood?
JoAnne Kloppenburg’s Election Is a Victory for Wisconsin JoAnne Kloppenburg’s Election Is a Victory for Wisconsin
Wisconsin's recent Supreme Court election should be a lesson for states across the country—and for the White House.
Apr 7, 2011 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Remembering Why Media Reform Matters Remembering Why Media Reform Matters
Progressives cheered when it was announced Wednesday that Glenn Beck would be “transitioning” off his Fox News show. Beck’s not gone for good, of course, bu...
Apr 7, 2011 / The Notion / Laura Flanders