Airwaves for the People Airwaves for the People
The FCC must ensure Big Telecom cannot manipulate what we can access on the web for their own profits.
May 6, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Wrath of the Neocon The Wrath of the Neocon
Why does Congressional candidate Rand Paul offend Dick Cheney so?
May 6, 2010 / Editorial / John Nichols
Ten Things You Can Do for Healthcare Reform Ten Things You Can Do for Healthcare Reform
What you need to know to make the most of the new healthcare law.
May 6, 2010 / Editorial / The Editors
Job’s Comforters Job’s Comforters
Science can be disproved only by its own criteria; when it comes to mental illness, its own criteria are often insufficient.
May 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Adam Phillips
Needed: A Progressive Story Needed: A Progressive Story
Instead of an endless platform of policy ideas, progressives need to tell a shared narrative.
May 5, 2010 / Feature / Amitai Etzioni
Party Every Day Party Every Day
Fox News is getting ever more brazen in its refusal to distinguish between journalist and politician—but so is everyone else.
May 5, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman
‘Shocker’ in Laura Bush Memoir No Big Deal For Texas Journos ‘Shocker’ in Laura Bush Memoir No Big Deal For Texas Journos
The former First Lady, as a teen, ran a stop sign and caused a fatal car crash. In her new memoir she talks about it at last, but it's pretty ho-hum (like the rest of t...
May 5, 2010 / Blog / Morgan Ashenfelter
Scahill on Olbermann, vanden Heuvel on The Ed Show Tonight Scahill on Olbermann, vanden Heuvel on The Ed Show Tonight
Check out two Nation contributors on MSNBC tonight, talking Times Square and the politics of BP.
May 5, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room
A Confederacy of Foxes A Confederacy of Foxes
The mainstream media track Fox News as if it were the Sixth Estate. Does that benefit us—or Fox?
May 5, 2010 / Editorial / Richard Pollak
Glenn Beck Gets It Right Glenn Beck Gets It Right
The attempted Times Square bombing is a reminder that the defense budgets for high-tech warfare are beside the point in countering terrorists who turn firecrackers into bombs.
May 5, 2010 / Robert Scheer