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
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
Cornel West: Creating a Progressive America Cornel West: Creating a Progressive America
We are losing the war that has been waged by plutocrats against the poor over the past thirty years as wealth has been systematically flowing from the poor to the wealthy.
Oct 26, 2011 / The Nation and On The Earth Productions
Occupy Wall Street: Envisioning Victory Occupy Wall Street: Envisioning Victory
As politicians and pundits continue to agonize over what Occupy Wall Street really wants, those at Zuccotti Park are busy actually working toward their visions of what victory for ...
Oct 24, 2011 / Jin Zhao and Teresa Cotsirilos
Thom Hartmann: Creating a Progressive America Thom Hartmann: Creating a Progressive America
Average Americans are watching their country dissolve in front of them, and it will take grassroots mobilization on both the Left and Right to assess and address the systemic dysfu...
Oct 20, 2011 / The Nation and On The Earth Productions
Nation Conversations: Katrina vanden Heuvel and Jonathan Steele on Afghanistan’s Future Nation Conversations: Katrina vanden Heuvel and Jonathan Steele on Afghanistan’s Future
Ten years into the US occupation of Afghanistan, how can we effectively and humanely end an unwinnable war?
Oct 19, 2011 / The Nation
Eve Ensler: Wall Street and Women’s Work Eve Ensler: Wall Street and Women’s Work
How can women make their voices central to the debate that the Occupy movement has created?
Oct 19, 2011 / Francis Reynolds and Emily Douglas
Ari Berman: Republican War on Voting Could Disenfranchise ‘Five Million Voters’ Ari Berman: Republican War on Voting Could Disenfranchise ‘Five Million Voters’
Sweeping reforms passed by Republican state legislatures will impede access to the ballot at every step of the voting process—and may disenfranchise up to 5 million poor, minority ...
Oct 18, 2011 / On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Bernie Sanders: Creating a Progressive America Bernie Sanders: Creating a Progressive America
Why is poverty invisible in the US?
Oct 17, 2011 / The Nation and On The Earth Productions
Nation Conversations: Liliana Segura and Laurie Penny on Hacktivism and Social Change Nation Conversations: Liliana Segura and Laurie Penny on Hacktivism and Social Change
From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, 2011 will be remembered as a year of youthful mass movements and popular revolts—none of which could have occurred without the surreptit...
Oct 15, 2011 / The Nation