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Oct 19, 2012 / The Nation
Won’t You Please Come to Ohio… Won’t You Please Come to Ohio…
To function in a post-truth political environment, the press needs a post-objectivity mindset.
Oct 19, 2012 / Eric Alterman
One Billion Rising One Billion Rising
One billion women violated is an atrocity. One billion women—and men—dancing is a revolution.
Oct 19, 2012 / Peter Rothberg
The Strangest Rodeo Show in Nashville The Strangest Rodeo Show in Nashville
Nashville understands something crucial about “kickass” women: they’re professionals first.
Oct 19, 2012 / Michelle Dean
Binders of Terror Binders of Terror
Why Republicans are so hung up on words.
Oct 19, 2012 / Leslie Savan
This Week in Poverty: What We Talk About When We Talk About Poverty This Week in Poverty: What We Talk About When We Talk About Poverty
In the second presidential debate, Governor Romney used the word poverty without saying anything of substance about it. President Obama didn’t use the word at all but managed...
Oct 19, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
Ashindi Maxton: America’s Founding Inequality Ashindi Maxton: America’s Founding Inequality
From the founding of the republic, inequality has been built into our country’s DNA.
Oct 19, 2012 / Laura Flanders
The Genius of McGovern’s ‘Come Home, America’ Vision The Genius of McGovern’s ‘Come Home, America’ Vision
The great liberal scoped out a vision for less military spending and more investment in domestic renewal. Now, even (some) conservatives get the point.
Oct 19, 2012 / John Nichols
The Fiscal Cliff X-Factor: The Debt Ceiling The Fiscal Cliff X-Factor: The Debt Ceiling
If Republicans take the debt ceiling hostage again, it could hurt the administration’s leverage for the fiscal cliff.
Oct 18, 2012 / George Zornick
Tammy Baldwin: Overturn ‘Citizens United’ Tammy Baldwin: Overturn ‘Citizens United’
The Wisconsin senate candidate rejects the idea of corporate personhood.
Oct 18, 2012 / The Nation Video