That Wasn’t So Hard: NYC Expands Paid Sick Leave to 500,000 More People That Wasn’t So Hard: NYC Expands Paid Sick Leave to 500,000 More People
Any company with five employees or more will have to grant paid sick time off.
Feb 26, 2014 / Jarrett Murphy
Congressman John Dingell, D—Healthcare Is a Right Congressman John Dingell, D—Healthcare Is a Right
Like his father before him, the retiring congressman kept proposing single-payer healthcare. It’s still the best idea.
Feb 24, 2014 / John Nichols
How Slavery Made the Modern World How Slavery Made the Modern World
Slavery was the flywheel on which America’s market revolution turned—not just in the United States, but in all of the Americas.
Feb 24, 2014 / Greg Grandin
Katrina vanden Heuvel: An Important Month for Obamacare Katrina vanden Heuvel: An Important Month for Obamacare
The Nation’s editor celebrated the recent successes of the Affordable Care Act in a roundtable on ABC’s This Week.
Feb 18, 2014 / Press Room
One Month After the Spill, Here Are 5 Things You Need to Know About West Virginia’s Water Crisis One Month After the Spill, Here Are 5 Things You Need to Know About West Virginia’s Water Crisis
West Virginians still have many questions left unanswered.
Feb 11, 2014 / Steven Hsieh
Would You Want Your 12-Year-Old Child Picking Tobacco? Would You Want Your 12-Year-Old Child Picking Tobacco?
Fusion and the Nation I-Fund report on the thousands of child farmworkers laboring in American tobacco fields.
Feb 5, 2014 / Press Room
Army Finds Key to Improving Soldiers’ Mental Health, and It’s Exactly What You’d Expect Army Finds Key to Improving Soldiers’ Mental Health, and It’s Exactly What You’d Expect
To prevent mental illness in American soldiers, bring them home.
Feb 4, 2014 / Steven Hsieh
Why Do We Have Unsafe Abortion in the United States? Why Do We Have Unsafe Abortion in the United States?
A searing New Yorker story about a rogue abortion provider shows that unsafe abortion has persisted in post-Roe America—likely because of anti-abortion regulations.
Feb 4, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg
All the President’s Middlemen All the President’s Middlemen
The Obama administration’s inclination to rely on the private sector to solve major societal problems can lead to dysfunction, if not chaos.
Feb 4, 2014 / Barbara Garson
Every 72 Minutes, a Kid Is Hospitalized for Gun Injuries Every 72 Minutes, a Kid Is Hospitalized for Gun Injuries
Gun violence is a public health issue.
Jan 27, 2014 / Steven Hsieh