Next Fed Head Should Meet the Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren Standard Next Fed Head Should Meet the Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren Standard
America needs a Fed chair who has "the right temperament and a willingness to take on Wall Street CEOs."
Aug 13, 2013 / John Nichols
Fighting For the Right to Call Home Fighting For the Right to Call Home
There are over two million men and women incarcerated in the United States and most cannot afford to call their families.
Aug 12, 2013 / The Nation Video
North Carolina’s Sweeping Voter Suppression Law Is Challenged in Court North Carolina’s Sweeping Voter Suppression Law Is Challenged in Court
North Carolina’s worst-in-the-nation voter suppression bill challenged under Section 2 of Voting Rights Act.
Aug 12, 2013 / Ari Berman
Why Aren’t Civil Rights Groups Standing Up to the Telecom Giants? Why Aren’t Civil Rights Groups Standing Up to the Telecom Giants?
Public interest organizations say deregulating phone service providers will hurt communities of color, but major civil rights groups are still in favor.
Aug 12, 2013 / Leticia Miranda
#OutWithStudentDebt #OutWithStudentDebt
The steadfast advocates at StudentDebtCrisis.org have launched a summer project aimed to put some human faces on the still-metastasizing student debt crisis.
Aug 12, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Stephen Cohen: Obama’s Russia Blunder Stephen Cohen: Obama’s Russia Blunder
Things are complicated with Russia, but that's no excuse for cancelling an important summit meeting with the nation's president.
Aug 12, 2013 / Press Room
Occupy Bank Cards! Occupy Bank Cards!
A band of finance wizards take on the system they now say is corrupt.
Aug 12, 2013 / Alissa Quart
Katrina vanden Heuvel: The ‘Cruel Hypocrisy’ of the Republican Party Katrina vanden Heuvel: The ‘Cruel Hypocrisy’ of the Republican Party
With upcoming elections in 2014, our political system needs deep structural reforms.
Aug 12, 2013 / Press Room
Obama Seems Lost in the ‘War on Terror’ Obama Seems Lost in the ‘War on Terror’
Backing Al Qaeda in Syria while fighting it in Iraq? And launching random drones in Yemen?
Aug 12, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
It’s About Inequality: New York’s Class-Conscious Mayoral Race It’s About Inequality: New York’s Class-Conscious Mayoral Race
For the first time in years, class politics are creeping back onto the New York campaign trail.
Aug 12, 2013 / Matthew Arnold