Robert Dreyfuss The clampdown on street protests can't disguise huge fissures among the elite.
Robert Dreyfuss The clampdown on street protests can't disguise huge fissures among the elite.
Our Readers, Eric Alterman & D.D. Guttenplan
Calvin Trillin
Zipper trouble.
Frank W. Lewis
Greg Grandin William Appleman Williams and the tragedy of American diplomacy.
The Editors
Getting a Medicare-style public plan as part of healthcare reform is a winnable fight.
Al Jazeera How will Obama interpret USAID's stated mission to 'further America's foreign policy interests' while 'improving the lives of citizens'?
A look back at The Nation's coverage of the Republican governor's shocking rise and possible premature fall in national politics.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Can the NAACP's new president reform the 100-year-old civil rights organization? Does he want to?
Christine Smallwood
A conversation with the authors of On Kindness.
Mark Hertsgaard
Washington and Beijing should launch an efficiency revolution, the quickest path to large emissions cuts.
Patricia J. Williams Michael Jackson's fame and fortune ensured he had few barriers to the pursuit of whatever Mad Hatter fancy seized him--including his made-to-order kids.
VideoNation The Nation's Chris Hayes and National Review's Reihan Salam debate whether the US is now a socialist nation...and whether that is a good thing.
Paul Wachter The rise and precipitous fall of the adulterous, anti-stimulus governor of South Carolina.
Barry Schwabsky The funky chaos of the 2009 Venice Biennale.
The Editors
The Nation and the NAACP; democracy derailed in Honduras; Sotomayor and Ricci
Eric Alterman Notwithstanding comparisons to FDR, BHO has proffered far less audacious proposals than we were led to expect.
The Daily Show Jon Stewart is appalled by Beck and his guest Michael Scheuer's suggestion that Bin Laden should attack the US again to change Obama's policies.
JoAnn Wypijewski
The latest political sex scandal isn't a scandal at all but a circumstance as old and common as time.
GRIT TV Nation contributing writer Bob Moser discusses the new 60-vote Democratic majority featuring Minnesota's finally seated Al Franken.
Chalmers Johnson As Congress and Obama wrangle over the cost of much-needed domestic expenditures, no one suggests that closing some of these unpopular, expensive imperial enclaves might be a good way to save some money.
Dave Zirin Sex doesn't actually sell women's sports, so why is Wimbledon still prioritizing pretty players?
The Rachel Maddow Show The Nation's Chris Hayes reflects on Sarah Palin's premature departure from Alaska and Tea Party politics.
Tom Engelhardt The mainstream media would rather focus on the death of Michael Jackson than cover the barbaric slaughter of innocent Afghan civilians by American planes.
David Moberg As he mounts his run for AFL-CIO president at a moment of opportunity and peril for American workers, Richard Trumka calls for no less than a new social compact.
Robert Scheer It was the stark evil Robert McNamara perpetrated as secretary of defense that must indelibly frame our memory of him.
MSNBC NYU Russia studies professor Stephen Cohen explains how the US got involved in a new cold war with Russia.
Tom Hayden The Alex Sanchez case raises troubling new questions about the war on gangs.
Babak Sarfaraz Supporters of the Green Wave increasingly see negotiations with the regime as the best way out of today's crisis.
Robert Scheer Since most of the increase in the federal deficit is due to bailing out the banks and salvaging the greater economy they helped destroy, why is the top investment bank doing so well?
Jonathan Schell The former secretary of defense presided over the deaths of millions--and was one of the only officials to publicly express regret.
Brave New Films American military escalation will not liberate the women of Afghanistan. Instead, the hardships of war take a disproportionate toll on women and their families.
A.C. Thompson Television news reports are casting new light on the violence that flourished in New Orleans in the anarchic days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
GRIT TV Healthcare as we know it is a serious burden on the national economy. Is Congress willing to make the necessary changes to overhaul the system?
Greg Kaufmann The Republicans may now be "the party of no," but it remains to be seen who exactly the Democrats are.
Emira Woods Ghanaians and other Africans are clamoring for a new direction in US Africa policy, one based in mutual interests and mutual respect.
John Nichols With new revelations about the former veep ordering the CIA to lie to Congress, Democrats finally start talking about an investigation that could hold him to account.
Countdown The Nation's Chris Hayes talks about the Panetta revelations about the CIA and Karl Rove's recent testimony over the US attorney firings scandal.
Gerald Caplan Just because President Obama possesses African heritage doesn't mean he couldn't learn a thing or two about the continent's history.
The Ed Show The Nation's John Nichols on how Sarah Palin's resignation will or won't affect her 2012 presidential prospects.
Michael Tracey The former president's reversal is the highest-profile one to date. It may also have political implications for the future of the Defense of Marriage Act.
VideoNation As the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor kick off, The Nation interviews Slate's Dahlia Lithwick for a preview.
Michael T. Klare Is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet?
American News Project As details emerge of how the Fed secretly doled out trillions during the financial crisis, Congress demands accountability.
YouTube A new documentary explores how alternative and sustainable energies can reduce our country's and the world's addictive dependence on fossil fuels.
YouTube Sen. Bernie Sanders says Congress should stop protecting the private healthcare industry and provide quality healthcare for all Americans.
Countdown The Nation's Chris Hayes on Sarah Palin's wildly inaccurate recent op-ed in the Washington Post on cap-and-trade legislation.
GRIT TV Matt Taibb and others discuss Goldman Sachs's record profits and how backroom deals and taxpayer dollars were used to resuscitate the banking industry.
The Ed Show The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about the need for information about the torture, warrantless wiretapping and secret programs of the Bush era.
The Daily Show Jon Stewart takes on the absurdity of Senate confirmation hearings by deflating the pomposity of senators from both parties.
The Rachel Maddow Show Slate's Dahlia Lithwick examines how Republican rhetoric on race at Sotomayor's confirmation hearings may backfire.