This Week: Re-Elect the President. Plus: Debate Debacle. This Week: Re-Elect the President. Plus: Debate Debacle.
A call to re-elect the president, Voting Rights Watch 2012. and the New York Film Festival.
Oct 6, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Another Voting Rights Victory, This Time in Ohio Another Voting Rights Victory, This Time in Ohio
A court blocks Ohio from cutting off its early voting hours, ensuring that black voters can participate ahead of Election Day.
Oct 5, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch and Voting Rights Watch
The Attack on Voting Rights Isn’t Racist—Just Ask Artur Davis The Attack on Voting Rights Isn’t Racist—Just Ask Artur Davis
The former black congressman became a star among tea partiers after coming out in support of Voter ID laws.
Oct 5, 2012 / Brentin Mock
Comments of the Week: Our Virtual Debate Party and a Chat with Katrina Comments of the Week: Our Virtual Debate Party and a Chat with Katrina
Our readers sound off on the first presidential debate and chat live with our editor and publisher, Katrina vanden Heuvel.
Oct 5, 2012 / Sarah Arnold
Watch the Vice Presidential Debate with The Nation! Watch the Vice Presidential Debate with The Nation!
Join us on Thursday, October 11, at 9 pm as Nation writers, editors and readers provide live fact checking and commentary during the Vice Presidential debate.
Oct 5, 2012 / The Nation
Debate: The Invisible Women Debate: The Invisible Women
With women’s issues so prominent this election cycle, it’s a mystery why they were invisible in Wednesday’s debate.
Oct 5, 2012 / Ilyse Hogue
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Turn to ‘Austerity-Light’ Would Consign This Country to a New Normal of Joblessness Katrina vanden Heuvel: Turn to ‘Austerity-Light’ Would Consign This Country to a New Normal of Joblessness
Vanden Heuvel also talks about the GOP’s “post-truth” politics and the Denver debate on C-Span's Washington Journal.
Oct 5, 2012 / Press Room
Ari Berman: The Republican Assault on Voting Rights Ari Berman: The Republican Assault on Voting Rights
The recent spate of voting laws clearly aren't about fraud. They're about keeping young, minority voters away from the polls.
Oct 5, 2012 / Press Room
Republicans, Here’s How to Complain About the Jobs Report Without Conspiracy Theories Republicans, Here’s How to Complain About the Jobs Report Without Conspiracy Theories
The unemployment rate is definitely going down, and a sustained upswing may be underway.
Oct 5, 2012 / George Zornick
Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the US Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the US
By focusing on under-appreciated episodes which have been airbrushed out of standard history texts, this ambitious ten-part documentary series tells the behind-the-scenes stories t...
Oct 5, 2012 / StudentNation / Katrina vanden Heuvel