Paul Ryan: Class Warrior for the Wealthy Paul Ryan: Class Warrior for the Wealthy
Paul Ryan's latest outlandish attack on President Obama proves he's a first-rate demagogue and phony deficit hawk.
Oct 26, 2011 / Ari Berman
Lawrence Lessig Responds Lawrence Lessig Responds
A response to Dave Zirin's "Memo to Lawrence Lessig: The Tea Party Is No Answer for Occupy USA."
Oct 26, 2011 / Lawrence Lessig
Where Are the Women at Occupy Wall Street? Everywhere—and They’re Not Going Away Where Are the Women at Occupy Wall Street? Everywhere—and They’re Not Going Away
Women helped found and sustain the leaderless, anarchist-influenced movement—and despite running into bursts of sexism and ignorance, they are determined to stick around.
Oct 26, 2011 / Sarah M. Seltzer
Video: We Still Believe Anita Hill Video: We Still Believe Anita Hill
Twenty years after Anita Hill boldly brought workplace sexual harassment to the American public consciousness, The Nation celebrates the progress we have made in the two decades si...
Oct 26, 2011 / Francis Reynolds and Emily Douglas
Occupy Wall Street and the Pope Agree: It’s Time to Tax Speculators Occupy Wall Street and the Pope Agree: It’s Time to Tax Speculators
On the streets, at the Vatican, at the G-20, in Congress and in front of the US Treasury building: The call is rising for a financial transactions tax. It will get a lot louder in ...
Oct 26, 2011 / John Nichols
Yes, Virginia, There Is Income Inequality—Will the Supercommittee Admit It? Yes, Virginia, There Is Income Inequality—Will the Supercommittee Admit It?
A new study on income inequality might make some Republicans on the supercommittee awful uncomfortable today.
Oct 26, 2011 / George Zornick
Is Rick Perry’s Iowa Ad for Voters or Donors? Is Rick Perry’s Iowa Ad for Voters or Donors?
Perry's first television commercial is all about his favorite topic: unleashing the energy industry.
Oct 26, 2011 / Ben Adler
Memo to Lawrence Lessig: The Tea Party Is No Answer for Occupy USA Memo to Lawrence Lessig: The Tea Party Is No Answer for Occupy USA
Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig is trying to get Occupy USA to build alliances with the Tea Party. He's wrong.
Oct 26, 2011 / Dave Zirin
This Is Just to Say: On William Carlos Williams This Is Just to Say: On William Carlos Williams
A new biography shortchanges the poetic achievement of William Carlos Williams.
Oct 26, 2011 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Out of the Vinyl Deeps catalogs Ellen Willis’s pop years.
Oct 26, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover