May 17, 2008
What inspires you? Who are your heroes?
Van Jones on green jobs? Pete Seeger's 70 years of activism? 17-year old Ava Lowery who has been protesting the Iraq war since the age of 14? Brave New Foundation and The Nation magazine have teamed up to produce...
Ari Melber | Posted April 28, 2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton's campaign finally came out against the Bush administration's secret program to promote Iraq policy through television analysts on Monday, saying it raises questions of "credibility and trust at the Pentagon" and calling for an Inspector General investigation, in a statement provided to The Nation. The program,...
Ari Melber | Posted April 21, 2008 | Media
Today the Times' Brian Stelter profiles Mark Halperin and his web invention The Page, a "concise collection of up-to-the-minute political news" that has come to drive "the political agenda." The positive article credits Halperin's business acumen, since he built a bloggy tip-sheet from scratch that cuts through the political...
Air America yak jock should not have been suspended. She should have been canned. That will never happen though. After her moment kid slap, she'll be back on the Air America airwaves with more, albeit slightly toned down until the heats off, ritual diatribes against Hillary Clinton. Rhodes got the...
Steve Clemons | Posted March 27, 2008 | Politics
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, has challenged Nation contributors Jeremy Scahill and Naomi Klein with misreading the tenor of the magazine's endorsement of Obama. Her main point is that despite suggesting editorially...
Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted March 26, 2008 | Media
Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill are valued contributors to The Nation. Their writing and reporting are essential to the magazine's journalistic work and impact. However, their Huffington Post column, "Players, Not Cheerleaders" reflects a serious misunderstanding of The Nation's role in this election when it comes to ending this...
Christine Escobar | Posted March 26, 2008 | Off The Bus
Last Thursday over 30 Democrat challengers publicly presented their support for "The Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq," assembled from existing congressional legislation by national security experts, retired generals, and Congressional candidate Darcy Burner. As of today, the number of Democrat endorsees of the plan has risen...
Ari Melber | Posted March 25, 2008 | Politics
"Operation Chaos," Rush Limbaugh's campaign urging Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in Democratic primaries, has been very effective. It doubled Republican turnout in Ohio and Texas, boosting Clinton and prolonging the Democratic race. But in Ohio, it was also almost certainly illegal.
Ohio law requires that citizens genuinely...
Rebecca Walker | Posted March 1, 2008 | Politics
There is a lot of discussion about "feminist in-fighting" of late, spurred by the election. Jessica Valenti of Feministing.com is doing a piece on the subject for The Nation. Here is my response to her query:
1. The fact is there have always been many "feminisms," but one dominant,...
Ari Melber | Posted January 27, 2008 | Politics
President Bush is now daring Congress to defy his demand for more unchecked power to spy on Americans without warrants, vowing to veto temporary surveillance legislation and politicize his last State of the Union address for an attack on Democrats. Last week, Democratic leaders were considering a bill to...
Cenk Uygur | Posted January 3, 2008 | Media
Tonight, The Young Turks and Brave New Films will be covering the Iowa caucuses live. Starting at 7PM ET, we will simulcast a webstream on both sites. There will be wall to wall coverage of the Republican and Democratic caucuses in Iowa.
Here is a list of...
Ari Melber | Posted December 28, 2007 | Politics
Reporters from around the world will cover next week's Iowa caucuses, but they won't be the only ones explaining the arcane process that helps select our next president. Local bloggers will be filing their own field reports, and according to Wired, they're making an impact:
...local blogs have...
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted December 6, 2007 | Entertainment
So here's how I see this playing out.
You're going to donate a substantial amount of time and money to rebuilding in New Orleans and here's what's going to happen next. Jennifer Aniston will not holiday with your in-laws. The United Nations will be loopy about you. You'll begin to...
Eric Alterman | Posted November 29, 2007 | Business
The list of things on which The Nation, Mother Jones, The Weekly Standard, and The National Review all agree is, by definition, rather modest: George W. Bush is, in fact, president of the United States. The earth is round; the sky is blue; wheat is plentiful; the Red Sox won...
Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted November 12, 2007 | Politics
My colleague at The Nation, Ari Berman, has done more than any journalist to shine some light on how pollster-strategist Mark Penn, head honcho at PR giant Burson-Marsteller, and perhaps the most important figure in Hillary Clinton's campaign, poses a real dilemma for the candidate. Penn heads a firm...
Ben Wyskida | Posted November 8, 2007 | Off The Bus
The following collection of articles is published online in partnership with The Nation and HuffPost's OffTheBus.
With the national media focused squarely on the superficial (polls, pile-ons, UFOs, cleavage, etc.), The Nation Magazine this week focused on the substantive: An affirmative look at each of the eight Democratic...
The Nation | Posted November 8, 2007 | Off The Bus
This article first appeared in the November 26th issue of The Nation magazine, and is published jointly online in collaboration with Huffington Post and OffTheBus. This is one in a series of eight essays by leading progressive commentators making the affirmative case for each of the Democratic presidential contenders.
...The Nation | Posted November 8, 2007 | Off The Bus
This article first appeared in the November 26th issue of The Nation magazine, and is published jointly online in collaboration with Huffington Post and OffTheBus. This is one in a series of eight essays by leading progressive commentators making the affirmative case for each of the Democratic presidential contenders.
...The Nation | Posted November 8, 2007 | Off The Bus
This article first appeared in the November 26th issue of The Nation magazine, and is published jointly online in collaboration with Huffington Post and OffTheBus. This is one in a series of eight essays by leading progressive commentators making the affirmative case for each of the Democratic presidential contenders.
...The Nation | Posted November 8, 2007 | Off The Bus
This article first appeared in the November 26th issue of The Nation magazine, and is published jointly online in collaboration with Huffington Post and OffTheBus. This is one in a series of eight essays by leading progressive commentators making the affirmative case for each of the Democratic presidential contenders.
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On Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert had fun with...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
*** UPDATED BELOW *** President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the...
Utterly insane goings-on tonight on...
As the odds get longer and longer, the obvious question is: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton gracefully concede...
It's a pretty well known fact that most women - attractive women -...
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two...
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The AP reports on Obama's swift and forceful response to Bush and McCain's criticism of...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
Robert Greenwald | Posted May 13, 2008 | Media