Fighting Bob Fest: Still Fighting After Ten Years Fighting Bob Fest: Still Fighting After Ten Years
On September 17th, Chautauqua, Wisconsin will host its annual Fighting Bob Fest, a progressive, populist forum in the spirit of Wisconsin progressive hero Robert "Fighting Bob...
Sep 9, 2011 / The Nation and On The Earth Productions
The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later
When inmates at Attica took over the prison in September of 1971, they were fighting for their basic rights. But their demands were ultimately met with tear gas and bullets.
Sep 9, 2011 / Francis Reynolds and Liliana Segura
The Nation Remembers 9/11 The Nation Remembers 9/11
Ten years after September 11, 2001, we are still engaged in an unwinnable “War on Terror,” and have opened the door to a new vision of “normal”—a normal in which surveillance, dete...
Sep 9, 2011 / Francis Reynolds
Slide Show: Washington’s Proxy Wars in Somalia Slide Show: Washington’s Proxy Wars in Somalia
The Shabab, the militant Islamist group with close ties to Al Qaeda, announced a “tactical retreat” from Mogadishu in August. But that doesn’t mean that peace has…
Sep 7, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Video: Ten Years After 9/11 Video: Ten Years After 9/11
How has the United States changed? A Nation event at The New School
Sep 6, 2011 / The Nation
When Will the Right Stop Bashing Government Workers? When Will the Right Stop Bashing Government Workers?
We need to respect government workers' vital service as being separate from the corruption and bureaucracy that have tarnished Washington's reputation.
Sep 6, 2011 / Morning Joe
Protesters to Obama: Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline Protesters to Obama: Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline
Hundreds of people continue their nonviolent protest outside the White House, urging the president to say no to the potentially environmentally disastrous Keystone XL pipeline.&nbs...
Sep 2, 2011 / The Nation
Melissa Harris-Perry: US Social Media Driven By Women, Minorities Melissa Harris-Perry: US Social Media Driven By Women, Minorities
Melissa Harris-Perry argues that social media platforms offer a voice to segments of the American population that might not have had one before.
Sep 1, 2011 / MSNBC
Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Arun Kundnani on Surveillance of Muslim-Americans Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Arun Kundnani on Surveillance of Muslim-Americans
The American government is currently employing counterterrorism strategies against Muslim communities here in the United States that were first developed by the military for use ab...
Sep 1, 2011 / The Nation
John Nichols: The Cheney Revisionist History Tour Rolls On John Nichols: The Cheney Revisionist History Tour Rolls On
With his new revisionist memoir, Dick Cheney is more concerned about maintaining status within the Republican party than he is about selling books.
Aug 31, 2011 / The Ed Show