Norman Birnbaum | The Nation

State Department cables have exposed the secret collusion of German politicians with the United States. But our media have missed the really big story: the striking rise in popularity of the Green party and continued support for the welfare state.

Gen. David Petraeus pays a visit to Georgetown, where he takes questions but doesn't always answer them.

Senator Kennedy was recognized worldwide as a leader of the American left. What is less recognized is his connection to a social justice-oriented Catholic faith.

Whoever now governs the country (a point on which there was no agreement) is likely to remain resolutely indifferent to the message of Left Forum 2009.

Italy's small, independent, radical daily is an indispensable voice on the left.

A half-century later, re-evaluating the works of C. Wright Mills, in The Politics of Truth.

A nation whose citizens have been largely turned off to politics held Barack Obama in a fervent embrace, viewing America once again as a place of new possibilities.

By concealing for a near-lifetime that he had served in the Waffen SS, literary giant Günter Grass treated himself with an indulgence he did not hesitate to deem a moral defect in others. And for that, we are all losers.

An American Jewish identity that centers on unconditional defense of
Israel is not healthy--for either American Jews or Israel.

As political parties in Germany dance toward a coalition
following the stalemated elections, the country is in for a turbulent
month--and new elections are a serious option.