This Week: Ideas From the 99 Percent. PLUS: Ending Corporate Personhood This Week: Ideas From the 99 Percent. PLUS: Ending Corporate Personhood
This week, a special forum on "Ideas from the 99 Percent." The We the People Campaign kicks into gear, plus an exclusive look at the "wildest" school boar...
Oct 28, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel to Obama: ‘Let’s Fight for the People’ Katrina vanden Heuvel to Obama: ‘Let’s Fight for the People’
Katrina vanden Heuvel accuses Paul Ryan of pandering to Washington's "austerity class"—and argues that the President needs to stand with the majority of Americ...
Oct 28, 2011 / Press Room
Letter From Iraq: As the US Military Withdraws, Sectarian Tensions Continue to Smolder Letter From Iraq: As the US Military Withdraws, Sectarian Tensions Continue to Smolder
Iraqis overwhelmingly support the end of the US occupation. But they still suffer from the divisions it engendered.
Oct 28, 2011 / David Enders
Occupy Tucson Needs Our Help Occupy Tucson Needs Our Help
The Tucson Police Department is utilizing a sophisticated strategy of financial and legal attrition to kill the Occupy Tucson movement. Here’s how to help.
Oct 28, 2011 / Peter Rothberg
What Should Be Done About Campaign Finance? What Should Be Done About Campaign Finance?
Restricting the flow of money doesn't work. So what comes next?
Oct 28, 2011 / Jamelle Bouie
10 Ideas to Change the World 10 Ideas to Change the World
The Roosevelt Institute Campus Network promotes a new form of progressive activism: grassroots policymaking.
Oct 28, 2011 / StudentNation / Reese Neader
Katrina vanden Heuvel: End Corporate Personhood Katrina vanden Heuvel: End Corporate Personhood
A very specific and concrete proposal has caught on like wildfire in Occupy encampments across the nation: Amend the Constitution to end corporate personhood.
Oct 28, 2011 / Press Room
Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and Ari Berman on the Rise of the Austerity Class Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and Ari Berman on the Rise of the Austerity Class
Why do austerity measures remain so popular within the beltway while the overwhelming evidence in the rest of the country points to the fact that such measures increase unemploymen...
Oct 28, 2011 / The Nation
Why the Supercommittee Should Go Small Why the Supercommittee Should Go Small
Groups urging Congress to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction are totally divorced from political and economic reality.
Oct 28, 2011 / Ari Berman
Solidarity Teach-Ins at a College Near You Solidarity Teach-Ins at a College Near You
Starting November 2, schools across the nation will participate in teach-ins about Occupy Wall Street in hopes of continuing and extending the dialogue that was started by the Oc...
Oct 27, 2011 / StudentNation / Natalia Abrams