Amy Wilentz

Amy Wilentz is a Nation contributing editor and the author of the award-winning The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier (Simon & Schuster, 1989). Her novel Martyrs' Crossing (Simon & Schuster, 2001) won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Prize. Her most recent book is I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger (Simon & Schuster, 2006). She teaches journalism at the University of California, Irvine.

Currently

  • The Haiti Haters

    January 21, 2010

    In this moment of death and destruction, we should not turn away.

2008

  • Benazir's Bequest

    January 4, 2008

    In the shock, power grabs and crackdowns that followed Benazir Bhutto's assassination, it's easy to forget that the greatest casualty in Pakistan is the rule of law.

2005

2004

  • Haiti's Occupation

    April 1, 2004

    The Haitian people have once again been excluded from their own governance.

  • Coup in Haiti

    March 4, 2004

    What happened in Haiti was a coup, and it's almost funny to hear Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and Scott McClellan call that claim "absurd" and "nonsense."

  • Haiti's Collapse

    February 12, 2004

    The future of Haiti hinges on support for a state based on law.

2002

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Blogs

» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Posted at 4:52 PM ET

» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
20 Comments
Posted at 1:28 PM ET

» The Dreyfuss Report

The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
24 Comments

» The Beat

John Murtha: The Old Soldier Who Said "Bring the Troops Home" | His Iraq War debate with Dick Cheney highlighted the difference between the modern era's sunshine patriots and winter soldiers.
John Nichols
104 Comments

» Act Now!

Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
48 Comments

» And Another Thing

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
49 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman