Frank W. Lewis
Frank W. Lewis
Calvin Trillin
This Muammar is truly loony.
Our Readers, Raj Patel, Eric Holt-Gimenez & Annie Shattuck
William R. Polk Mr. President, don't derail your presidency by bungling Afghanistan.
The Editors Obama faces a presidency-defining choice: will he escalate in Afghanistan, or plot a new course?
Corey Robin Thomas Hobbes sensed the revolutionary impulses of early modern Europe and transformed them into a defense of the most hidebound form of rule.
VideoNation Marcy Wheeler talks strategy, saying that Democrats need to "push the positive" to encourage people to not accept anything but the public option.
The following images and excerpts highlight The Nation's opposition to military escalation.
Jeff Biggers Appalachian activists are gaining ground in a campaign to ban mountaintop removal mining.
Alexander Cockburn
Why the sudden disclosure of a secret uranium enrichment facility in Iran?
Adam Horowitz & Philip Weiss Israel's latest strategy for responding to allegations of human rights abuses: kill the messenger.
Scott Saul Eliot Weinberger's enigmatic essays save him from becoming a prisoner of his polemical style.
VideoNation Nation contributor Max Blumenthal on the right-wing tea-baggers, sex scandals, religious fanaticism and zombie mentality that are driving today's Republican party.
Sebastian Jones As a politician, he was a champion of progressive reform. Now he lobbies for its enemies.
Katha Pollitt What a stupid question.
The Editors
Activism against Afghanistan escalation, the death of Texas liberal Don Yarborough, a bailout for students
GRIT TV Jeff Sharlet says the conservative Christian movement in the US is far more complicated, diverse and powerful than most coverage of events like the 9/12 Tea Party protests suggests.
Phoebe Connelly Jean Rhys wrote about women who tangled with class and sexuality on their own terms.
Drew Westen
Effective government is the precondition of freedom. And Obama needs to tell us that.
Pepe Escobar The story under the Iranian nuclear story: how Iranian natural gas will reach Europe.
ABC News The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel thinks that we need to stop fixating on debt and unemployment benefits, and instead focus on a job creation program.
Robert Scheer There is no indication that any of the contending forces in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, are interested in bringing Al Qaeda back.
The Editors Hugo Chávez on Barack Obama, the Honduran crisis, and domestic successes and challenges.
Barbara Crossette Barely a week after Barack Obama plunged into the UN for three unprecedented days, our reconciliation with the organization is already showing fault lines.
VideoNation How much money did we really spend on the bailouts? Where did it go? Are we getting it back? The Nation's Chris Hayes answers these questions and more.
The Editors
Introducing our new art critic, Barry Schwabsky.
Greg Kaufmann The best arguments for the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency come from the politicians and lobbyists who oppose it.
The Joy Behar Show The Nation's Ari Melber debates Meghan McCain over the nature of right-wing extremism versus the criticism leveled at President Bush by the "so-called liberal media."
Naomi Klein If Obama can go to Copenhagen to support Chicago's Olympic bid, he can go back for the UN climate change summit.
Jeremy Scahill Representative Betty McCollum's "ACORN Act" would prevent the government from doing business with corporations that have been found guilty of felonies.
Adam Federman Three years after the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politikovskaya, impunity reigns.
Ira Chernus Why the Obama administration's efforts to achieve a Middle East peace between the Israelis and Palestinians are inextricably linked to its efforts to bring Iran to heel.