Electronic Pen

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

Jefferson Decker How did Wal-Mart become so successful that its merciless economic model could threaten its own bottom line?

• Natasha Wimmer: Rodoreda, the Domestic Existentialist

Kim Phillips-Fein Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right's resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?

• Rachel Aviv: Speak as Little as Possible

William Deresiewicz Will narrowed on a single object and fixed in the face of adversity--such is the recurring story of Gabriel García Márquez's career.

• Brent Cunningham: Cornucopia Blues