Calvin Trillin
Fellowship of the ring.
Calvin Trillin
Fellowship of the ring.
Our Readers, Eric Alterman, Karen Rothmyer, Michelle Orange & D.D. Guttenplan
Frank W. Lewis
Stephen Holmes Assessing the stealth, subterfuge and delusion of the Cheney vice presidency.
Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel Obama's signature economic reforms are under siege. Without a grassroots challenge to business as usual, we won't get the change we were promised, much less the change we need.
The Editors Conservatives should think twice before using Sonia Sotomayor's Latina identity against her.
In the spirit of the summer movie season, a look back at The Nation's coverage of classic popcorn epics.
GRIT TV Why are so many people so scared? Maybe it's because of our rulers' enormous 'fear machine.' So says Eduardo Galeano, in this rare interview.
Kamau Brathwaite
Jonathan Schell
The war, as we learned from the photos of Abu Ghraib, produced torture. Before that happened, torture had produced war.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom China has changed enormously since the 1989 massacre, but the Communist Party continues to deny what happened. Americans, too, continue to misremember a complex event.
Alexander Cockburn
Our laws are rapidly collapsing into symbolism.
GRIT TV A look at the media's response to Dr. George Tiller's murder and what pro-choice organizations need to do moving forward.
Stuart Klawans J.J. Abrams's Star Trek, Ron Howard's Angels & Demons, Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours
Dana Goldstein
Charter and merit pay advocates make up in lobbying what they lack in community support.
The Editors
Meltdown in Motown: A Nation forum in Detroit gauges the city's pain and looks for solutions.
Katha Pollitt There is a generational struggle going on in feminism today, but it isn't over sex; it's over power.
Countdown Has Bill O'Reilly finally gone too far? MSNBC's Keith Olbermann links the murder of Dr. George Tiller to Fox News.
Teo Ballvé Is Plan Colombia subsidizing narco-traffickers to cultivate biofuels on stolen lands?
Joshua Freeman
Garment workers at a suburban Chicago factory fight to save their jobs and prove that social unionism is still relevant.
Dave Zirin To gauge her judicial temperament, take a close look at Sonia Sotomayor's rulings in sports. Left-wing in theory, right-wing in practice--no wonder she clicked so smoothly with the Obama administration.
The Daily Show Politicians and pundits cannot seem to look past Supreme Court Justice-nominee Sonia Sotomayor's Hispanic heritage.
David Margolick A longstanding rivalry between old friends shows what it takes to get into the New York Times.
JoAnn Wypijewski In the end, the vote was silly or sad, but for eighteen weeks on American Idol, Adam Lambert was Everyman and Everygayman, skating the edge of ecstasy and terror.
Robert Scheer It would be nice to blame the Gipper for the economic meltdown, but the facts don't support it. The real villains are closer at hand.
The Rachel Maddow Show The Nation's Chris Hayes discusses the possible effects of Tim Pawlenty's decision to forgo a third term as governor of Minnesota.
Ali Abunimah Though President Obama met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on May 28, there's little evidence that the United States is encouraging real progress toward a two-state solution.
Eyal Press It's too early to say whether the murder of a Kansas abortion provider will trigger another wave of a type of violence last seen in the 1990s. It is not too early to be struck by the parallels.
GRIT TV Rep. Dennis Kucinich, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse, UAW veteran Al Benchich and others on the dismantling of GM.
John Nichols Prochoice groups declared Monday a national day of mourning following the murder of Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions who was long a target of antiabortion zealots.
MSNBC The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel debates Joe Scarborough on the tenets of conservatism and the legacy of Ronald Reagan.
Tom Engelhardt Graduates of the Bush years, initiates of the Obama era, here's a commencement address that's suitably obscure and yet somehow ringing.
Media Matters for America Pat Buchanan launches into paranoid racist rants in response to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.
VideoNation The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel weighs in on the danger Afghanistan poses to Obama's progressive agenda.