Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner reflects on the environmental legacy of "Angels in America," and discusses the artistic history and challenges of coping with climate change.
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The novelist José Manuel Prieto and Nation contributor Daniel Wilkinson, the deputy director of the Americas division at Human Rights Watch, discuss Prieto's essay Travels by Taxi, from The Nation's Fall Books issue. Prieto was born in Havana in 1962 and left Cuba in the late 1980s, at odds with what he calls the Cuban Revolution's deep and terrible idealism. In his essay - and this video - Prieto reflects on the positive and negative consequences of that idealism for Cubans generally and ...
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One year after young voters and young organizers helped propel President Obama to victory, are "Obama's youth" still active? Where are they, what are they doing, and what issues are they engaged in? The Nation tracked 30 young voters and volunteers, for a compelling look at the Obama "youthquake" one year later.
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Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Rob Johnson, former chief economist, US Senate Banking Committee, discuss bailouts made to "too big to fail" companies.
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A robust group of clergy, labor and progressive activists took the American Bankers Association by storm, protesting their annual conference and shaming the financial community for excessive pay and failing to use bailout funds to expand credit and help consumers suffering from the poor economy.
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Entertainment Tonight's "The Insider" celebrity panel debates the forthcoming, "Going Rouge," asking if it's satire - or sabotage - of Sarah Palin's forthcoming biography, "Going Rogue." The Nation's Betsy Reed explains that its neither. "Going Rouge," available at OrBooks.com, is a necessary and serious look at former Governor Palin's record.
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How much money did we really spend on the bailouts? Where did it go? Are we getting it back? The Nation's Washington DC Editor Chris Hayes explains how the bailouts were really $17.5 trillion - not $700 billion - and if President Obama, Tim Geithner and the architects of "TARP" will pay a political price if the bailouts don't lead to job creation.
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Max Blumenthal on the tea-baggers, sex scandals, religious fanaticism and zombie mentality that are driving today's Republican party, and its opposition to healthcare reform and the Obama agenda.
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Investigative journalist and blogger Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel) critiques the "Baucus Bill," the Senate and House approaches to healthcare reform, and how progressives can and should advocate for real reform with a robust public option.
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