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• Peter Dreier talks with Jack Rice about the current state of labor unions

  18 Aug 2009 in Radio

  On August 14, The Nation’s Peter Dreier sat down with Air America’s Jack Rice to discuss the fractured, collapsing state of labor unions in the US which he discussed in his recent Nation article on the messy dissolution of the UNITE HERE union merger.  On Rice’s show, Dreier shared his thoughts on the wide reaching [...]

• Mainstream media picking up on Scahill’s Blackwater report

  11 Aug 2009 in Uncategorized

  In his August 4 Nation article “Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder,” Jeremy Scahill broke the explosive news that Blackwater’s Erik Prince “may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company.”  Scahill, who has extensively covered the corrupt military contractor for The Nation throughout the Iraq [...]

• Melissa Harris-Lacewell talks “Gates-gate” with Ana Marie Cox

  27 Jul 2009 in Uncategorized

  On July 25, Nation writer Melissa Harris-Lacewell stopped by Ana Marie Cox’s The Inside Story on Air America to make sense of the recent media uproar over the racial implications of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s recent arrest. Addressing the “great national yearning to be past race,” Harris-Lacewell underscored the importance of considering Gates’s [...]

• Richard Kim on the failed cultural satire of “Brüno”

  22 Jul 2009 in Radio

  On July 21, The Nation’s Richard Kim sat down with Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY’s “Radio Times” to discuss the radically flawed premise of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie “Brüno.” Dissecting the film’s excruciating, anxiety-provoking moments, Kim emphasized several points he laid out in his recent article “Et Tu, Brüno?”. Explaining that Baron Cohen [...]

• Katrina vanden Heuvel talks Sotomayor and the GOP on Air America

  17 Jul 2009 in Radio

  On July 16, The Nation’s Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel stopped by Air America’s “The Lionel Show” to share her insights on Sonia Sotomayor’s ongoing Senate confirmation hearings.  Check out the interview below to hear vanden Heuvel explain why it’s in the GOP’s (and the country’s!) best interest to “put aside the cynical use [...]

• Stephen Cohen on what’s next for U.S.-Russia Relations

  14 Jul 2009 in Uncategorized

  During President Obama’s recent visit to Russia, The Nation’s Contributing Editor Stephen F. Cohen, a Professor of Russian and Studies at New York University and author of the new book “Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives,” was invited by numerous media outlets to discuss the future of US-Russia relations.  In a July 6 appearance on Charlie [...]

• Ari Melber on What’s Really Wrong with Obama’s Gitmo Plan

  10 Jul 2009 in Uncategorized

  On Thursday, July 9, The Nation’s  Ari Melber spoke with The Young Turks about President Obama’s radical, potentially unconstitutional plans for Guantanamo detainees.  Calling attention to the issues he laid out in his recent Politico piece, Melber criticizes President Obama’s support of “preventative detention” saying, “Even President Bush, who as president stretched the boundaries of [...]

• Katrina vanden Heuvel to appear on “This Week”

  26 Jun 2009 in Television

  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 [...]

• Liza Featherstone on activism and student loan forgiveness

  26 Jun 2009 in Radio

  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 [...]

• Ari Melber shows support for Sotomayor on ‘7 Days’

  03 Jun 2009 in Uncategorized

  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 [...]