Frank W. Lewis
Frank W. Lewis
Calvin Trillin
What's in a name?
Our Readers & David Cay Johnston
Dean Starkman Long before most in the business press rose to the challenge, Gretchen Morgenson was reporting that the financial sector had gone rogue.
Bernard Avishai A shrewd history of why US presidents have failed to make Israel accept a plan for regional peace.
The Editors The world is watching as the next chapter in the future of Iran unfolds.
Images that capture history in the making from Iran's recent election and its fallout.
Brave New Films The footage you are about to see is poignant, heart-wrenching and often a direct result of a US foreign policy that revolves around war.
Sasha Abramsky Economic necessity and shifting mores are changing the nation's approach to incarceration.
Marcela Valdes Does Alejandro Zambra's Bonsai mark the end of an era in Chilean literature?
Eric Alterman Still relevant, fifty years later: William Appleman Williams's Tragedy of American Diplomacy.
Christopher Hayes
How will Washington recalibrate the share of gains captured by shareholders, executives and workers in a post-crash economy?
VideoNation The Nation's Chris Hayes and National Review's Reihan Salam to debate whether Americans have a 'right' to healthcare.
Jessica Valenti It might sound milder, and appear hipper, but it traffics in the same old sexism.
Robert Perkinson
Anne-Marie Cusac examines the punitive turn in the criminal justice system.
The Editors
John Nichols on antiwar Democrats, Corbin Hiar on Greenland and global warming, The Nation Associates on Ning
Countdown Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell reflects on Rush Limbaugh's sexist and racist smears on Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Robert Scheer The Bush-Obama strategy of throwing trillions at the banks to solve the mortgage crisis is a huge bust. Will the president be able to extricate us from this mess?
Barbara Crossette
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is halfway through his first term. Whether he gets a second term depends on his ability to get results.
Nick Turse A look at just a few of these fortunate folks indicates that not everybody was harmed by the Bush era.
Countdown The Nation's Chris Hayes discusses the re-emergence of George W. Bush and his criticisms of President Obama.
William Greider Taxing benefits may raise money for Obama's healthcare reform, but it would betray union members who gave up wage increases in order to get decent coverage.
The Ed Show The Nation's editor and publisher, Katrina vanden Heuvel, explores the ways in which Republicans are becoming the 'party of no.'
Tom Hayden After months of silence on peace issues, MoveOn is mobilizing its members to demand an exit strategy for Afghanistan.
John Nichols This president does not need to make threats to champion democracy.
The Rachel Maddow Show The Nation's Chris Hayes analyzes the Republican response to the popular protests in Iran.
Greg Grandin The empire ends with a pullout. Not from Iraq, but from Detroit.
Ari Melber The president gets mixed grades on his promises of transparency: good to the public and the press, not so good to the other two branches.
Barbara Crossette Neda Agha-Soltan has become a powerful and tragic icon of the new Iran--and an emblem of just how much women have lost in the thirty years of Islamic rule.
American News Project The government has poured money into GM to help keep the company afloat, but the company is still slashing jobs.
William Greider What's missing in the President's call for reform are concrete rules that address a dysfunctional banking system. Slow down the rush to weak solutions.
MSNBC South Carolina governor and 2012 GOP hopeful Mark Sanford admits to an extra-marital affair, but won't say if he'll resign.
Patricia J. Williams DNA research increasingly allows us to collapse time and discover criminal guilt or innocence. That's why the Supreme Court's recent ruling against a prisoner's right to post-conviction DNA testing is so baffling.
John Nichols Mark Sanford today took the apology press conference to a whole new level, removing yet another name from the ever-shortening list of 2012 GOP presidential contenders.