Ari Melber explains why Obama dropped Dawn Johnsen as a nominee for the Office of Legal Counsel.

There aren't too many genuine heroes to come out of the banking disaster, but Armando Falcon is one of them--and had he been listened to, a significant part of the housing crisis could have been mitigated.

The top democratic parties have decided to disband rather than participate in this year's rigged elections.

As the UC Berkeley Student Senate votes to divest from two companies that profit from Israel's occupation of Palestine, the noted philosopher reminds us of what's at stake.

Katrina vanden Heuvel appears on The Ed Show attacking the disparate income equality resulting from unfair tax cuts.

For students in a small Texas border town, drug violence offers frequent lessons on the failure of the "war on drugs."

On the Charlie Rose Show, Nation writer Greg Grandin explains why Latin America is moving further away from the US politically.

As Obama seeks to bring empathy and real-world experience to the Supreme Court, he should consider nominating an openly gay advocate for gay rights.

The AFL-CIO's new president warns that members of the academy should make common cause with the justifiable anger among working people.

Al Jazeera English's "Fault Lines" program discovers creative models local communities are using to address unemployment.

As the nuclear security summit convenes in Washington, the US's "first-use" of nuclear bombs in 1945 still matters.

After reporting US politics and economics for forty years, Nation national affairs correspondent William Greider still considers himself an optimist. Appearing as a guest on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, Greider discusses the promise of the American people and their crucial role in reforming government.

Poland's president and dozens of its political leaders died Saturday in a plane crash en route to a commemoration of the World War II massacre of Polish soldiers in Katyn, Russia.

Christopher Hayes asks education policy analyst Ben Miller how student loan reform will bring fundamental changes to the way students finance their education.

Nation Sports Editor Dave Zirin denounces Woods' latest ad as just another distraction from the tournament.

Obama's Pentagon is preparing for a number of counterinsurgencies in the developing world

An essential instrument of democracy, the Postal Service should be reimagined--not shrunk.

How the Pentagon is cheating wounded vets.

British voters are taking a hard look at the Conservative Party, and they don't like what they see.

He was just stating the obvious.