This Week at TheNation.com: 1000 Shares. Plus: Two new videos, and a new series starts Monday. This Week at TheNation.com: 1000 Shares. Plus: Two new videos, and a new series starts Monday.
It was back to work this week at The Nation and in D.C., with President Obama and the Democrats in Congress grappling with how critical jobs and the economy are to their chances in November. In my web column for The Washington Post this week, I challenged Wall Street over their recklessness in attacking President Obama's relatively mild efforts at reforming the financial system, after being made whole and profitable again by the bailouts. The reality is that Wall Street's unwillingness to lend or to accept reforms has put the economic recovery at risk. I made a similar argument in this video conversation with Laura Flanders from The Nation on GRIT TV: Class warfare is not, as John McCain would have you believe, overturning Bush's tax cuts for the rich. "Class warfare is when you have corporations sitting on $1.8 trillion." Watch the segment here. Also this week ... Video: The U.S., The U.N and The World The Nation's United Nation's Correspondent Barbara Crossette joined Laura for a conversation about the role of the U.S. in global human rights - specifically our relationship to the U.N. But as President Obama embraces reforms abroad, are we applying the same principles to economic justice at home? Its a thoughtful conversation; watch the video here. Podcast: The Breakdown With Chris Hayes How can the Fed help the economy? Chris Hayes explains the role of the Federal Reserve in the economic recovery, with Neil Irwin of The Washington Post. Listen here, or subscribe in I-tunes. 1000 Shares Contributing Writer Jon Weiner was prepping for a radio interview on KPFK with columnist Katha Pollitt (available here) when he noticed that her recent column, "It's Better Over There," had hit 1,001 "shares" on Facebook. The article is now at 1,045. It's been remarkable to watch the growth of social networking as a tool to spark discussion around Nation content; we always appreciate the shares and re-tweets, and sharing a Nation article is one of the most significant things you can do to help the magazine - and independent journalism. The State of the Race Next Monday we're starting a video series on Election 2010. Our Monday segments from "The Nation on GRIT TV" (posted here each Monday afternoon) will look at one facet of the midterm election, along with a dispatch from one of our reporters out in the field. This week, Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Laura will look at the impact that race is playing on the election: is the GOP race-baiting their way back to a House majority? And we'll hear (via skype) from reporter Dan Bischoff, who is covering the Rand Paul-Jack Conway Kentucky Senate race. Videos are at thenation.com; full episodes are at GRITTV.org. Election Day is Tuesday A reminder that in many states, Tuesday is Primary Election Day. Here in New York, the big race is for Attorney General. I encourage you to get out and vote, and give some thought to my endorsement of Eric Schneiderman before you go. - - - That's all for this week. As always you can keep up by following The Nation on Facebook here, or follow me on Twitter - I'm @KatrinaNation.
Sep 10, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Wall Street Needs to Change, Not Obama Wall Street Needs to Change, Not Obama
While no one said that reforming Wall Street would be easy for President Obama, the big-money backlash against his proposals has been surprisingly swift and screechy.
Sep 9, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Finding a Way Out of Afghanistan Finding a Way Out of Afghanistan
A report to be released tomorrow by the Afghanistan Study Group has the potential to change the direction of the war.
Sep 7, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Labor Day, No Holiday for Unions This Labor Day, No Holiday for Unions
Unions are in trouble. But if only we'd listened to them more often in the past, America wouldn't be in the predicament it's in now.
Sep 1, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Schneiderman for Attorney General Schneiderman for Attorney General
New York State Senator Eric Schneiderman's commitment to transformational politics and progressive values make him the right choice for state attorney general.
Aug 31, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
New York Communities Take on Foreclosures New York Communities Take on Foreclosures
A coalition of working families, politicians and unions are demanding that Big Banks increase permanent mortgage modifications to stop New York's full-blown foreclosure crisis.
Aug 30, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week at TheNation.com: Reflecting on New Orleans. Plus: A New Leader for The Nation Institute. This Week at TheNation.com: Reflecting on New Orleans. Plus: A New Leader for The Nation Institute.
Five years after the tragedy in the Gulf, The Nation continues to follow the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Aug 27, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
This Week at TheNation.com: A Weekend Movie Primer; Plus: How to Help in Pakistan. This Week at TheNation.com: A Weekend Movie Primer; Plus: How to Help in Pakistan.
"The Tillman Story" opens this weekend, and as Greg Mitchell writes in his Media Fix blog, the reviews are in. Mitchell has written extensively about the Tillman case and the film; he previewed the movie and ran the trailer in this post at the height of the McChrystal controversy. If you head out to the theater this weekend to see the film, give his commentary a read first. (And while you're prepping for a weekend at the movies, you can read Stuart Klawans latest here. Klawans reviews Christopher Nolan's Inception; Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime; Samuel Maoz's Lebanon.) Also this week... A Nod from Dennis Kucinich on "Extra-Judicial" Killings It is important to see that someone in Washington is treating "extrajudicial assassinations" seriously. Rep. Kucinich, with six co-sponsors, has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would prohibit "the extrajudicial killing of United States Citizens" and end this horrific breach of civil liberties. We were honored to see that Kucinich cites Jeremy Scahill's reporting from November (The Secret U.S. War in Pakistan) as part of the rationale for the legislation. Scahill's reporting is linked from H.R. 6010, which you can read here. Video: The Public Housing Crisis Nation contributor Kai Wright was on this week's The Nation on GRIT TV, discussing the recent desperation over public housing vouchers in Atlanta - and the housing crisis around the country. Wright was joined by housing organizer Tony Romano. There are few needs more basic than shelter; in his reporting for The Nation and Colorlines, Wright has written at length about the struggles of black families trying to hold own to their homes, or even their rentals. This segment is an outstanding primer to the crisis in public housing our country faces today. Watch here. Video: Is This The Era of "Bad Sports?" Our Sports writer Dave Zirin was on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Thursday exposing some real socialism in our midst: America is socializing the debt of sports, while privatizing the profits. “If public money goes into a team, I think the public should, at the very least, afford tickets, but at the very most have a piece of the team as well," he says. Check out the whole segment here. Act Now: How to Help in Pakistan The crisis in Pakistan hasn't received the attention of other recent disasters, but the situation is more than just a humanitarian crisis - it imperils whatever fragile stability is holding this volatile region together. In this Act Now post, Peter Rothberg runs through the ways you can help Pakistan, where 20% of the country is under water, and twenty million people are homeless. Find out more here. - - - - - - Thanks for reading. As always you can keep up by following The Nation on Facebook here, or follow me on Twitter—I'm@KatrinaNation.
Aug 20, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
AFL Takes On Foreclosures and Payday Lending AFL Takes On Foreclosures and Payday Lending
An interview with AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker on Big Banks and a new approach to prevent home foreclosure.
Aug 19, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
It’s About Main Street, Not the Mosque It’s About Main Street, Not the Mosque
The party with solutions to the country's economic woes will be the winners come November.
Aug 17, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel