Vivian Gornick & William Deresiewicz
American News Project The GOP called a special session to debate a rebranding resolution... for the Democratic Party.
Vivian Gornick & William Deresiewicz
Calvin Trillin
Eventually, instant karma's gonna get you.
Jana Prikryl How did Milan Kundera's antipathy toward the media become as curdled as the Czechs' allergy to his success?
The Editors
Obama's reversal of the decision to release photos of detainee abuse is unsettling and wrongheaded.
Frank W. Lewis
Jo Comerford The $1 trillion we have spent on war since 9/11 has placed enormous stress on our recession-struck economy.
Natasha Wimmer Set in the glossiest of sanctuaries, Rex is a complicated and dazzling indictment of contemporary fiction.
Eric Alterman Shortcuts, blindness and downright dishonesty in the rapidly imploding mainstream media.
Christopher Hayes Congress, at the behest of the banking industry, has changed accounting rules to make company balance sheets even more opaque. How is that going to help?
The Ed Show The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel on why the Obama administration needs to do more to create manufacturing jobs in the US.
Andy Kroll How the financial bailout scams taxpayers, subsidizes Wall Street and props up our broken financial system.
Lorna Scott Fox
News From the Empire hacks out a sinuous, branching path that connects fantasy with fact and allegory with analysis.
Gary Younge
New Labour is finished. What replaces it will certainly be worse.
J. Lester Feder A realistic public healthcare plan should rein in costs, fix uncompetitive markets and change the way medicine is practiced.
VideoNation Rep. Donna Edwards discusses the important role progressives should play in influencing the Obama presidency.
Charles P. Pierce The music on Townes, Steve Earle's tribute to Townes Van Zandt, is simple and literally homespun. There is sinew to this music, and blood in the words.
Robin Blaser
The Editors
After insulting veterans, Homeland Security gets a do-over on a report on right-wing extremism; mass transit comes to small towns.
Dave Zirin Millions will be spent to bring the biggest event in sports to the Superdome, while the victims of Hurricane Katrina remain on the sidelines.
The Daily Show Jon Stewart surveys the coverage and content of President Obama's and Dick Cheney's concurrent national security speeches.
Tom Hayden MoveOn, once the most powerful grassroots peace organization, has rendered its members voiceless on the expanding wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And that silence sends a message.
William Deresiewicz If art is a product of the mind, and the mind a product of evolution, is art a product of evolution?
Graham Usher There's a hole in the heart of our Af-Pak policy. It's called peace between Pakistan and India. And no amount of aid will fill it.
Brave New Films Former military interrogator Matthew Alexander refutes Dick Cheney's claim that torture saved American lives.
Robert Scheer If Citigroup is too big to fail, isn't the state of California? How the national economy can snap back to health if the federal government refuses to help?
Gabriel Arana The national media have invented a drug-related crime wave that officials and local journalists say just isn't happening.
Adrienne Rich
Three legal scholars assess the impact of Obama's nomination of Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court.
GRIT TV The Nation's Richard Kim joins a panel discussion on the impact of Prop 8 in California being upheld and more.
Christine Smallwood
Epidemiologist Philip Alcabes discusses the social fears surrounding epidemics and why risk can't be eliminated from life.
Media Matters for America Right wing commentators, with characteristic disregard for reason or reality, have already begun smearing Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Ange Mlinko Instead of offering healing or empowerment, the poetry of Jennifer Moxley explores vulnerability and "wrong life."
Joshua Clover
In Paris Spleen, Charles Baudelaire crystallized a new feeling: the private life of the public turn.
Elisabeth Sifton Book publishers have always predicted that the end was nigh. When it does come they will have only themselves to blame.
Charles Taylor Over a decade ago, in his novel The Ax, Donald E. Westlake captured the ruthlessness and anomie of economic Darwinism.