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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged The Nation

1. June 3, 2011 01:06 PM

   A Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down (UPDATED)

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Nation has a scoop—or had, actually—from Wikileaks cables showing that the Obama administration pressured Haiti not to raise its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour, or five bucks a day. The magazine posted the story the other day and has now pulled it, saying it will repost it next Wednesday "To accord with the publishing schedule of Haiti...

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2. August 25, 2011 08:04 PM

   Audit Notes: A Triple-B Chairman for a Triple-B Company, Stadium Welfare, Euro Crisis

   By Ryan Chittum

   New York Daily News publisher and Boston Properties Chairman Mort Zuckerman takes to the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal today and unloads this gem: Obama and the 'Competency Crisis' Like many Americans who supported him, I long for a triple-A president to run a triple-A country. Boston Properties' credit rating? Triple-B. Maybe that's why the Journal identifies him...

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3. April 20, 2011 10:32 AM

   Trillin on Texas and The New Yorker: A CJR Podcast

   By Lauren Kirchner

   In CJR's latest podcast, staff writer Michael Meyer sits down with author and Nation columnist Calvin Trillin about his new collection, Trillin on Texas, out now from the University of Texas Press. In this excerpt of their conversation, Meyer asks Trillin about his experiences reporting and writing "U.S. Journal," his series of features that ran in The New Yorker from...

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