Maria Margaronis | The Nation

Nick Clegg has taken the Liberal Democrats into government with the Tories, serving as deputy prime minister to David Cameron, a politician he has called "the con man of British politics." Where did it all go wrong?

Letter published in the May 3, 2010, issue of The Nation.

A clash between a feminist activist and a former Guantánamo detainee divides the left.

The pressure on Papandreou's socialist government to fix the crisis by yesterday is a product of the wider recession.

Some of the best activism is happening in Britain—but in policy terms, payoff has been slight.

A new collection of C.P. Cavafy's beautiful, musical poems.

In the European parliamentary elections, the center-right has won at the expense of social democrats.

The police shooting of a boy has unleashed riots and seething resentment in Greece among young people lost in the economic downturn and a society betrayed by a corrupt and incompetent government.

When the votes were finally counted, Europe's wish to usher George W. Bush into the dustbin of history made for widespread jubilation.

In the wake of catastrophic fires, Greek voters face a moment of "disaster capitalism," as key environmental and economic decisions determine how to rebuild.