Electronic Pen

Melissa Harris-Lacewell Politics aside, the resignation of Van Jones as the "green jobs czar" for the Obama administration is a setback for environmental justice.

• Video: Van Jones and Carl Pope--Environmental Visionaries

Annette Bernhardt Ruth Milkman and Nik Theodore Employment and labor law violations are still persistent in America. Yet there is hope for real change with the Obama administration in office.

Nation Forum Five leading figures of this country's food movement reflect on how food democracy can be achieved today.

• Dan Barber: Why Cooking Matters

The Nation's Naomi Klein interviews Michael Moore on the roots of the economic crisis and the promise and peril of this political moment.

• Nation Podcast: Naomi Klein in Conversation With Michael Moore
• Adam Howard: An Early Review of Capitalism: A Love Story

Robert S. Eshelman Even permitted demonstrators are subject to unconstitutional search and seizure at the gathering of world leaders.

• Protesting the G-20
• The World and Pittsburgh

Natasha Wimmer Mercè Rodoreda's fiction plumbs a sadness borne of helplessness, an almost voluptuous vulnerability.

• Jefferson Decker: Operation Rollback