Help Save the Montes Family Help Save the Montes Family
This heartbreaking video describes the outrageously unfair detention and deportation of an innocent man and the callous means by which immigration officials casually tear famil...
Feb 17, 2012 / Peter Rothberg
This Week in Poverty: Obama’s Budget, Your Server’s Budget This Week in Poverty: Obama’s Budget, Your Server’s Budget
If Obama wants his actions to match his rhetoric about helping the poor, he needs to show a lot more leadership.
Feb 17, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
For-Profit Higher Ed and the Occupy Movement For-Profit Higher Ed and the Occupy Movement
A Harper's journalist recently went undercover as a University of Phoenix student. What he found was an "education" that was anything but--and a prime example of how the ...
Feb 16, 2012 / Dana Goldstein
From Nation Interns: This Week’s Top Stories (2/16) From Nation Interns: This Week’s Top Stories (2/16)
Each week, The Nation interns pick compelling stories in their areas of interest.
Feb 16, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation
Occupying the SEC for a Stronger Volcker Rule Occupying the SEC for a Stronger Volcker Rule
In a public comment to the SEC, an Occupy working group details troubling loopholes in the Volcker Rule, part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill.
Feb 16, 2012 / Rachel Signer
John Nichols: Wisconsin’s Uprising John Nichols: Wisconsin’s Uprising
Early 2011 was a dark time for the American left, until the Wisconsin protests began.
Feb 16, 2012 / Francis Reynolds and Emily Douglas
John Nichols: What Do Barack Obama and Scott Walker Have in Common? John Nichols: What Do Barack Obama and Scott Walker Have in Common?
Wisconsin's fight back against Governor Walker is the most transformational movement in a long time.
Feb 15, 2012 / Press Room
America’s Youth Uprising America’s Youth Uprising
The renewal of labor militancy and radical politics is being led by a rising generation with its own rock-and-rap passion.
Feb 15, 2012 / John Nichols
Is US Counterterrorism Fueling Islamist Militants in Yemen? Is US Counterterrorism Fueling Islamist Militants in Yemen?
A propaganda video from the Al Qaeda-linked militant group Ansar Al Sharia shows fighters overrunning a security position in the city of Zinjibar, Yemen. Militants captured the pro…
Feb 15, 2012 / Photo Essay / The Nation
John Nichols: Walker Will Not Go Down Easy John Nichols: Walker Will Not Go Down Easy
What has the historic Wisconsin uprising, celebrating its one-year anniversary today, showed America about the power of grassroots movements?
Feb 15, 2012 / Press Room