From the Civil War and D-Day to Iraq and Afghanistan, images and articles from our history archive of military conflicts and efforts to make peace.
From the Civil War and D-Day to Iraq and Afghanistan, images and articles from our history archive of military conflicts and efforts to make peace.
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John Nichols Bailouts may protect the automakers. But what about the autoworkers?
Barry Schwabsky Do images understand us, the Pictures generation asked, more than we understand them?
The Editors Premature optimism about the economy could swiftly undermine the president's credibility. Stand by, taxpayers: there may be more rescues ahead.
The Daily Show Jon Stewart points out the hypocrisy of withholding the torture photos and the firing openly gay Arabic translator Lt. Dan Choi.
Calvin Trillin
He just wants to pump us up.
Nelson Lichtenstein
Autoworkers should meet this crisis as they have in the past: boldly and visibly.
Akiva Gottlieb A callous vigilante and sentimental old fogy, Clint Eastwood has become indivisible from his myth.
Jeff Faux Wall Street's pervasive influence on Obama's change agenda props up banks, while the real economy continues to suffer.
Saturday Night Live Dick Cheney gets a presidential reprimand for being on TV more than the ShamWow guy.
Max Fraser We shouldn't pass up a chance to enlist the auto industry in a green transition.
Nick Stillman The richness of baseball's old, weird vernacular is pure, pointless creativity.
Alexander Cockburn
Weep not for the death of the old Fourth Estate: at almost every critical hour, in every decade, it failed us.
The Editors
The paper industry's tax loophole; healthcare reform protesters under arrest; apartheid victims' day in court; a Hillman award for The Nation.
OntheEarthProduction Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky and Terry Tempest Williams discuss the urgent need reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million.
D.D. Guttenplan
I.F. Stone was not only a great reporter; he was a radical, an irritant to power.
Katha Pollitt A Wesleyan student is stalked and killed by a man with a gun and a mind full of hate.
David Cay Johnston Obama and Congress must get tougher on offshore tax cheats--prosecuting them as criminals and requiring full payment, with penalties and interest.
GRIT TV Namoi Klein and Avi Lewis talk about how direct action worker campaigns have fared here in the United States and around the world.
Eat less meat, conserve energy, buy fair-trade products, support sustainable agriculture, advocate for food security as a human right...
James Carroll Will Roman Catholicism be swept into the rising tide of religious fundamentalism?
The Daily Show Barack Obama and Cliff Huxtable are both married to hot lawyers and have unrealistically cute daughters.
Robert Scheer The unregulated hedge fund calls the shots in the government's trillion-dollar bailout program--snapping up bad loans some of its execs originally marketed.
David Parker Jr. Four years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans public schools struggle to serve students and the educational waters are still muddy.
Martin Garbus The author of the infamous memo has been invited to testify before a Senate committee. This is the beginning of the unraveling.
Rick Reyes I witnessed firsthand the ineffectiveness of US military strategy in Afghanistan. We need a clear mission, an exit strategy and a commitment to diplomacy.
Brave New Films What do Starbucks and Wal-Mart have in common? Both have long track records of harassing their workers when it comes to joining unions.
Kelly Lee & Michael Gould-Wartofsky Millions of recently declassified police documents detail a thirty-six-year reign of state terror.
GRIT TV The question of torture has been drowned out by the Washington media-driven drama of what Nancy Pelosi knew and when.
Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein Workers in the United States and Europe are beginning to ask the same question as their Latin American counterparts: why do we have to get fired?
The Today Show The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel outlines the values Republicans should embrace to return from the wilderness.
Barbara Crossette Defying expectations and boosting hopes for stability, Indian voters rejected extremism and caste divisions, to give a decisive victory to Congress Party moderates.
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith The government drops efforts to prosecute an officer who refused to fight in Iraq. But the Army continues its campaign against him.
Noam Chomsky Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon, not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity but also because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead.
Tom Hayden Obama's pick to be the top US commander in Afghanistan directed a screening center in Iraq in 2003 that held terror suspects in secret facilities to which the Red Cross did not have access.
Jeremy Scahill Former Halliburton subsidy KBR was paid $83 million in bonuses for work that electrocuted US soldiers, former employees testified today.