Slide Show: CEO Bonus Season Is Here Slide Show: CEO Bonus Season Is Here
CEO bonus season is approaching, and despite a 9.8 percent unemployment rate, record-breaking poverty figures and more than 1 million expected foreclosures, top executives are raking in breathtaking sums—even while laying off hundreds of employees. According to a report from the Institute for Policy Studies, CEO compensation reached record levels in 2009, and the companies who laid off the most employees reaped around 42 percent greater total compensation than the average S&P 500 company executive.
Dec 30, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Slide Show: Remembering Those We Lost in 2010 Slide Show: Remembering Those We Lost in 2010
We recently inaugurated Lived History, a new section of TheNation.com designed to honor, remember and pay tribute to the dearly departed who have made significant contributions to bettering our world. Each week we feature a remembrance of a member of the progressive community, either well known or more obscure, whose remarkable accomplishments demand recognition. In the process, we hope to be able to highlight and recover some of the more important but often obscure periods of our history that demonstrate the progressive tradition in American life. Here are a few of the notable individuals we lost in 2010.
Dec 30, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Nation Readers’ Person of the Year Nation Readers’ Person of the Year
Julian Assange is our readers' choice, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Bradley Manning. Read why and see who else got votes.
Dec 30, 2010 / The Nation
Slide Show: The Progressive Honor Roll 2010 Slide Show: The Progressive Honor Roll 2010
"The year 2010 will not be remembered as a halcyon year for progressives," writes John Nichols in his Progressive Honor Roll for this year. "But in such years the truest believers and battlers stand out all the more clearly, and patterns are set for the victories of the years to come." Here, then, are the Most Valuable Progressives of 2010 and the groundwork they're laying for 2011.
Dec 30, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Nation Conversations: Jesse Jackson on Progressive Politics in the Obama Era Nation Conversations: Jesse Jackson on Progressive Politics in the Obama Era
If you're disappointed with Obama, Rev. Jesse Jackson has a reminder for you: American presidents haven't done many great things without a mass movement pushing them every step of ...
Dec 17, 2010 / The Nation
Slide Show: Katha Pollitt’s Holiday Giving Guide for Nation Readers Slide Show: Katha Pollitt’s Holiday Giving Guide for Nation Readers
“Studies show,” writes Katha Pollitt, “that experiences, not possessions, are what make people happy. So this holiday season, make yourself happy by experiencing helping others through year-end donations to these fine groups.” With no shortage of progressive causes worthy of attention and funding, Pollitt has picked her top-ten organizations that deserve your giving this year.
Dec 17, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Person of the Year? Person of the Year?
Who should be The Nation readers' choice for person of the year, and why?
Dec 15, 2010 / The Nation
Stephen Cohen’s ‘The Victims Return’ Stephen Cohen’s ‘The Victims Return’
In his new book, Cohen tells the all-but unknown story of the nearly 6 million inmates who survived the often murderous brutality of Stalin's Gulag.
Dec 14, 2010 / The Nation
Nation Conversations: National Drug Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske on the Possibility of Reform under Obama Nation Conversations: National Drug Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske on the Possibility of Reform under Obama
The Nation's Sasha Abramsky and Obama's Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, speak at length about the administration's drug reform agenda.
Dec 9, 2010 / The Nation
Slide Show: From Prohibition to Prop 19 Slide Show: From Prohibition to Prop 19
You can read all of the pieces in The Nation’s special issue on drug policy here.
Dec 9, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation