The Nation’s Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel will appear on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos this Sunday at 10 am ET. Joining vanden Heuvel at the roundtable will be New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan and “Morning” Joe Scarborough. Tune in for what’s sure to be a spirited discussion of Governor Mark Sanford, health care reform and Iran.
On June 17, The Nation’s Liza Featherstone sat down with Air America’s Live in Washington host Jack Rice to discuss her latest article, “Out of Reach,” a sobering investigation of the rising cost of higher education in America and the student activist response. Throughout the interview, Featherstone explains how the notion of an affordable college education has become a “utopian pipe dream,” arguing that, “everybody who’s qualified should be able to go to college and study together.” Click on the links below to hear the conversation:
Nation Net Movement correspondent Ari Melber joined 7 Days in America’s Carlos Watson and Arianna Huffington on Saturday, May 30. Melber discussed the accusations of racism toward Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Despite more Americans having a more positive view view of her than former President Bush’s nominees John Roberts and Samuel Alito, Sotomayor has been vilified by the GOP in a series of rants that even extended to Twitter. About the attacks, Melber says the Republicans are only hurting themselves. “I do think part of it appears more pronounced because there such a vacuum of leadership,” he says, “The conservative echo chamber that was once so feared and so influential has now become a bit of a crazy default location to get the so-called Republican view.”
Listen to the full program here:
