Frank W. Lewis
Frank W. Lewis
Calvin Trillin
They have some justifying to do.
Our Readers & Kim Phillips-Fein
The Editors
Did the president deserve to win the Nobel Peace Prize? No, of course not. But he still has a chance to earn it.
Adam Horowitz & Philip Weiss The Jewish push for peace is surging through the grassroots, but leaders and policy-makers are still turning a deaf ear.
William Deresiewicz Technology has made us capable of exterminating ourselves. In The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood wonders what might save us.
As we round out 2009, The Nation highlights the successes, failures and possibilities of the gay rights movement.
Saturday Night Live President Obama gets really tough with Senators McConnell, Baucus and Snowe in this Incredible Hulk-inspired sketch.
Claudia Rankine
Alexander Cockburn
People shouldn't take Peace Prizes too seriously except under those rare circumstances when a prize committee somewhere gets it right.
Jeremy Scahill A growing number of lawmakers are starting to ask: if ACORN's federal funding should be under intense scrutiny, why aren't the billions of dollars going to out-of-control contractors being regulated?
Helena Cobban Tom Dine, for thirteen years head of AIPAC, now works for a two-state solution and on improving US-Syrian relations.
GRIT TV More than 5 million have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and violence against women is so common that it's been called femicide-genocide. What can we here in the US do about it?
Katha Pollitt Leftist parties in Germany offer a range of choices but no cohesive challenge to the right.
The Editors
GOP obstruction of Obama appointees continues to succeed; an immigration-policing program draws substantial heat; The Nation's Gary Younge receives Britain's prestigious James Cameron Memorial Award.
Tom Hayden An influential Pentagon strategist advocates a fifty-year counterinsurgency campaign.
Richard White For Jackson Lears, the United States remains in thrall to a bogus spiritual quest born of a refusal to face the tragedy of the Civil War.
Andrew Zawacki
Naomi Klein Just because the United States is trying to be a global team player again doesn't mean the game gets better rules.
John Nichols By embracing the left instead of running to the center, New Jersey's Democratic Governor Jon Corzine has revitalized his once-troubled re-election campaign.
Andrea D'Cruz Hundreds of Palestinian children are imprisoned in Israeli jails every year. Their story, overlooked in recent media reports, tells the true cost of the occupation.
Amy Bach The most effective way to fight violence in schools is not the widespread "zero tolerance" model. Thankfully, Clayton County, Georgia, may have the perfect solution.
William Greider Some public servants collect their reward after leaving government. Gene Sperling, adviser to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, earned his before.
Robert Scheer If we could get one of the banking lobbyists to float a duct-taped flying saucer balloon, Wolf Blitzer might cover the real hoax.
Sarah Stodola The first female winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics serves as both a landmark and an alarming reflection of the limited role of women in the physical sciences.
Steve Early & Rand Wilson Max Baucus's scheme to tax the benefits of workers slightly better off--so revenue can be raised for private insurance subsidies--is a lose-lose proposition.
Katrina vanden Heuvel Happy days are here again--if you're Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.
Julian Sanchez Obama makes reassuring noises about constraining executive power and protecting civil liberties, but then adopts whatever appalling policy Bush put in place.
Tom Engelhardt Will today's US-armed ally be tomorrow's enemy?
Daniel Eagan When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the only neutral filmmaker in the country was Julien Bryan. His round-the-clock footage of Warsaw's destruction, assembled in Siege, is now again on view.
Greg Kaufmann Nightmare on Wall Street continues--come March 2010, AIG plans on upping the bonuses for its Financial Products division to nearly $200 million, bringing the total to $426 million since December 2008.
Lindsay Beyerstein A Congressional Budget Office report suggesting that a robust public option would actually cut the deficit seems to have lit a fire under Speaker Pelosi.