Calvin Trillin
Now that's torture.
Calvin Trillin
Now that's torture.
Frank W. Lewis
Our Readers
Kai Wright Why the home loan industry won't (and can't) fix itself.
Dimiter Kenarov Georgi Stoev plundered his past in the Bulgarian mob to write a series of popular pulp novels. The mob found them good enough for him to die for.
The Editors
So far, there's much to be optimistic about. But the bank bailout and Afghanistan policy are cause for continued concern.
VideoNation A panel of Nation writers, members of Congress and community activists give their best and worst moments of Obama's first 100 days.
Alexander Cockburn
With haters on the wane, what will the hate-seekers do?
David Moberg Rethinking their split four years ago, unions are exploring reunification.
Stuart Klawans Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys, Erick Zonca's Julia, Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control.
Bill Ong Hing & David Bacon Clearer rights for immigrants and jobs for workers hard-hit by the recession will go a long way to reduce competition and fear.
Al Jazeera Evangelicals serving in Afghanistan add spreading Christianity to list of duties in defiance of US military law.
Marc Perelman The far left in France is staging a comeback. But can it seize power?
Katha Pollitt I should have been a member of the torture creative class, because now I would be having a good life.
The Editors
Arlen Specter's switch; The Progressive turns 100.
American News Project On the night before the Mortgage Bankers Association won the third round of this ongoing battle, the industry celebrated at the expense indebted mortgage holders.
Howard W. French Published fifty years ago, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart mounted a literary rebellion against the everyday amalgamations and condescension that treat Africa as an undifferentiated wasteland.
JoAnn Wypijewski A rash of teen "sexting" has turned educators and law enforcement officials into instant oglers, hunting for crimes where none are intended.
Dave Zirin & Billy Buntin A promising young athlete causes a furor because he's leaving high school to play pro basketball. What's so wrong with that?
Helen Benedict More women have fought and died in Iraq than in all the wars since World War II put together. Yet the US military continues to treat them like second class citizens.
Media Matters for America Fox News truncates or splices video to support its ideological slant regardless of context or speaker intent.
Tom Hayden Take these concrete steps to build an antiwar infrastructure from the bottom up.
Dave Zirin In a victory for the little people, a long-shot little horse from nowhere overcomes 50 to 1 odds to win the Kentucky Derby. But wait. Look who owns part of the horse.
Joe Uehlein As Congress prepares legislation to slow global warming, what kind of jobs will it create?
Countdown The Nation's Chris Hayes weighs in on the so-called tea party 'movement' and its colossal failure in the eyes of its creator.
Heather Boushey It's easy for government to tell parents to keep their kids with flu symptoms home--but what if they can't afford to miss work?
Robert Scheer The chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank made millions off his secret purchase of Goldman Sachs stock. But where's the outrage?
Barbara Crossette Just as tourism returns to the nascent Himalayan democracy, new political discord could derail economic recovery and a constitution.
GRIT TV There's been plenty of coverage of the economic crisis over the last eight months. But are we missing the real story?
Aziz Huq He has quietly and diligently mined the law to return history and humanity to the court. Obama would do well to name someone like him.
The Daily Show Leaders of the Republican Party recognize mistakes and eat local ethnic food in casual attire--it's like they're just like us.
John Nichols The former HUD Secretary imagined a radical Republican Party that reached out to all Americans with ideas. Too bad it didn't come to pass.
Ari Melber The torture immunity lobby has a new argument--public support inoculates war criminals. With that mindset, we are likely to get these policies wrong again in the future.