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Slide Show: Green Energy Slide Show: Green Energy

To supply the United States with power without destroying the earth in the process we need radical changes in the way we think about energy consumption and our energy infrastruc...

Jul 14, 2010 / The Nation

College Media Censorship College Media Censorship

A year-end review of efforts to limit student press expression coast to coast.

Jul 13, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation

Catholicism, Homosexuality, Hate Speech, and Incompetence Catholicism, Homosexuality, Hate Speech, and Incompetence

A morality tale at the University of Illinois.

Jul 13, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation

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What Is Patriotism? Nation Readers Respond What Is Patriotism? Nation Readers Respond

For this year's Fourth of July, we asked Nation readers what "patriotism" means to them and how progressives can express love for one's country while forthrightly combati...

Jul 9, 2010 / The Nation

More Than 1,000 Young People Gather in DC

More Than 1,000 Young People Gather in DC More Than 1,000 Young People Gather in DC

Coming together for Campus Progress's National Conference to develop ideas, networks and innovations that can help create a more progressive America. 

Jul 8, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation

Nation Conversations: Jeff Blum on the Battle for Healthcare Nation Conversations: Jeff Blum on the Battle for Healthcare

USAction's Jeff Blum argues that progressives need to embrace Obama's healthcare reform as a major victory for the social justice movement: "We actually established a new r...

Jun 29, 2010 / The Nation

What Is Patriotism?

What Is Patriotism? What Is Patriotism?

The Nation asks our readers: What do you value in the traditions of your country? Tell us what patriotism means to you.

Jun 29, 2010 / The Nation

BP Oil Spill on the Curriculum BP Oil Spill on the Curriculum

New course at the University of MN will address the gulf crisis.

Jun 29, 2010 / StudentNation / The Nation

Slide Show: The Nation in the Nuclear Age

Slide Show: The Nation in the Nuclear Age Slide Show: The Nation in the Nuclear Age

Since the detonation of the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, The Nation has been appropriately fearful of the singular devas…

Jun 29, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation

Slide Show: The Life of Senator Robert Byrd

Slide Show: The Life of Senator Robert Byrd Slide Show: The Life of Senator Robert Byrd

Senator Robert C. Byrd, who passed away Monday, June 28 at the age of 92, turned away from the unholiest of beginnings to a very long career as one of Congress’s greatest Con…

Jun 28, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation

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