Our Readers & Barry Schwabsky
Our Readers & Barry Schwabsky
Calvin Trillin
Going along when China's rotten...
Frank W. Lewis
The Editors US Afghanistan policy should not be held hostage to the president's past rhetoric.
Barry Schwabsky For the photographer Thomas Demand, Germany is like any other country because it is haunted by history.
The essays in our forum call into question many of the myths and faulty assumptions about the best course of US policy in Afghanistan.
Countdown Keith Olbermann weighs in on the Sarah Palin "companion" book Going Rouge, edited by Nation staffers Betsy Reed and Richard Kim.
At the annual American Bankers Association conference in Chicago, protesters faced off against the bankers who refused to extend them credit even after getting bailed out.
Patricia J. Williams
It's peculiar, the vocabulary that makes a liability out of the Nobel Prize.
J. Lester Feder Healthcare reform is looking less like a fantasy and more like a probability--but we need to keep a close watch on affordability, financing and the public option.
Joy Connolly In The Fires of Vesuvius, Mary Beard unearths the seedier realities of the Roman social and political experience.
Stephen M. Walt Staying in Afghanistan will cost many more American soldiers' lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Is it worth it?
GRIT TV Nation contributor Barbara Ehrenreich presents Bright Sided, her new book about the negative aspect of positive thinking.
Eric Alterman By refusing to acknowledge Fox News's avowed partisanship, its MSM defenders diminish the work of honest journalists who try to play fair.
Theodore Hamm Whatever his party label, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's firmest loyalties are to Wall Street. Why is his Democratic opponent unwilling to forcefully challenge him on economic issues?
Charles Taylor
With his plain, weather-beaten prose, Don Carpenter was a good enough novelist not to have to prove it.
John Mueller If we leave Afghanistan, Al Qaeda will be in no position to re-establish a base there.
Entertainment Tonight Nation editors Betsy Reed and Richard Kim's Going Rouge is not out to confuse, but to inform.
Bob Moser
Everyone is looking to Virginia's off-year gubernatorial contest as a Middle American barometer for 2010.
Selig S. Harrison The tenacity of the Taliban insurgency is rooted in opposition to a foreign occupation that is particularly distasteful to the Pashtuns.
The Rachel Maddow Show Chris Hayes, The Nation's Washington editor, clears up some of the confusion regarding the future of the public optio
Robert Scheer The Connecticut senator declared Tuesday that he would support a filibuster of any healthcare reform bill that has a public option--even the version with the "trigger" compromise accepted by Sen. Olympia Snowe.
The Editors A how-to for taking action on Afghanistan.
Priya Satia Airstrikes, manned or unmanned, regulated or not, cannot build a better Afghan future.
MSNBC Sen. Harry Reid will introduce a healthcare reform bill including an "opt-out" public option--grounds for disappointment, says Ari Melber.
Manan Ahmed
Is Pakistan really in danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban?
MSNBC The Nation's John Nichols talks to Hardball's Chris Matthews about President Obama's decision to marginalize Fox News.
Mosharraf Zaidi The most dependable guarantor of Pakistani stability isn't a troop buildup in Afghanistan; it's Pakistan's emerging middle class.
The Rachel Maddow Show The Nation's sports editor Dave Zirin argues that corporate naming rights on college campuses are a bad idea.
Robert Dreyfuss Elements of a responsible withdrawal.
Ann Jones Women belong at the center of the debate over the Afghan war, not on the margins.
Jeremy Scahill A federal judge sends the lawyers for Iraqi victims of Blackwater back to the drawing board, while rejecting Blackwater's plea to toss out the case.
Helen Rosenthal What if campaign finance reform took a page from baseball's playbook?
Raul Grijalva There has been a lot of guessing recently about what the final House version of healthcare reform will look like. It's time for some clarity.
Peter Dreier In the past month, momentum on healthcare reform has unmistakably shifted as progressives have taken to the streets, the Internet and the halls of Congress to push for a bold plan.
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith After three years of trying to convict Lt. Ehren Watada for refusing to deploy to Iraq, the Army has allowed him to resign.
Nathaniel Herz Turnout for 350.org's International Climate Day of Action was high in New York City--and in some of the developing nations most vulnerable to effects of global warming.
Barbara Crossette Navi Pillay is the first UN human rights commissioner to take on caste discrimination.
Avi Lewis In Honduras, people are dying while the world looks the other way. Real international pressure--especially from the US--is the only force that could stop that now.
Michael T. Klare The American intelligence community has missed the boat on how quickly the US has fallen from "sole superpower" status.
Tom Hayden The evidence against Alex Sanchez is quite refutable, but that assumes a fair trial. And that's not possible in Judge Real's courtroom.
Lindsay Beyerstein Progressives rejoiced when Sen. Harry Reid announced that the Senate healthcare bill would include a public option. But the jubilation was short-lived.
Jeremy Scahill Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Carol Shea-Porter argue that since Adam Hermanson died while working on a Defense Department contract, the DoD is obliged to investigate.