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Obama, At Length Obama, At Length

On the EPA, Clint Eastwood and German soccer.

Jul 8, 2010 / Eric Alterman

Facing Up to Violence Against LGBT Youth Behind Bars Facing Up to Violence Against LGBT Youth Behind Bars

Daniel Redman appears on The Nation on Grit TV to describe how the juvenile justice system sends queer youth to prison in disproportionate numbers, fails to protect them from viole...

Jul 8, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV

Violence Against LGBT Youth Behind Bars Violence Against LGBT Youth Behind Bars

Daniel Redman joins The Nation on Grit TV to describe how the brutal and dysfunctional juvenile justice system sends queer youth to prison in disproportionate numbers, fails to ...

Jul 8, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV

More Than 1,000 Young People Gather in DC

More Than 1,000 Young People Gather in DC More Than 1,000 Young People Gather in DC

Coming together for Campus Progress's National Conference to develop ideas, networks and innovations that can help create a more progressive America. 

Jul 8, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation

Lebron James: The Uncool Lebron James: The Uncool

There is already a big loser in tonight's Lebron James-ESPN-free agent-jamboree. It's Lebron James.

Jul 8, 2010 / Dave Zirin

Who Fights and Why? Who Fights and Why?

Winter Bone—if you haven't seen this extraordinary, woman-directed film about a family in trouble in the Ozarks of Missouri, I recommend it. Grim it is. Irrelevant it is not.

Jul 8, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fix the Jobs Crisis, Then the Deficit Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fix the Jobs Crisis, Then the Deficit

While conservative media obsesses over the deficit and Republicans are knocking down job creation plans left and right, Obama will have to convince the American people that the d...

Jul 7, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV

Sarah Palin to Run the RNC? Sarah Palin to Run the RNC?

Sarah Palin's capacity to mobilize in spite of her gaffes is what makes her a more dangerous candidate to head the RNC.

Jul 7, 2010 / Press Room

After 65 Years, A UN Agency for Women After 65 Years, A UN Agency for Women

"Gender mainstreaming" at the United Nations failed. Will an agency solely dedicated to promoting women's rights in development do better?

Jul 7, 2010 / Barbara Crossette

NOW Urges Senate to Expel David Vitter NOW Urges Senate to Expel David Vitter

National Organization for Women says it is time for the Louisiana senator—a patron of prostitutes and employer of an abusive aide—to go.

Jul 6, 2010 / John Nichols

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