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November 4, 2009
Why do we need newspapers? They help make humans of us.
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November 4, 2009
Would Illinois rather keep an innocent man behind bars than admit a mistake?
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October 28, 2009
States sound off for instant runoff voting; activists unite for the International Day of Climate Action; and we remember an American radical who fought the "good fight" against fascism in Spain.
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October 28, 2009
To reform the financial sector, we must break up "too big to fail" conglomerates and reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act.
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October 21, 2009
A how-to for taking action on Afghanistan.
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October 21, 2009
US Afghanistan policy should not be held hostage to the president's past rhetoric.
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October 14, 2009
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.
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October 14, 2009
Did the president deserve to win the Nobel Peace Prize? No, of course not. But he still has a chance to earn it.
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October 7, 2009
Benefits extensions and retraining are not sufficient to address the staggering level of unemployment now facing Americans.
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October 7, 2009
On healthcare, Representative Grayson lands a punch; momentum against "don't ask, don't tell"; Obama goes weak on press freedom; Greece votes socialist as Europe trends right.
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September 30, 2009
Introducing our new art critic, Barry Schwabsky.
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September 30, 2009
Activism against Afghanistan escalation, the death of Texas liberal Don Yarborough, a bailout for students
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September 30, 2009
Hugo Chávez on Barack Obama, the Honduran crisis, and domestic successes and challenges.
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September 30, 2009
Obama faces a presidency-defining choice: will he escalate in Afghanistan, or plot a new course?
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September 23, 2009
Panic and silence greet the release of the UN Human Rights Council report on Gaza; the FCC backs net neutrality.
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September 23, 2009
Policy can be racist even when no one crafting it harbors hatred of a particular racial group.
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September 16, 2009
Norwegians vote for "social-democratic paradise;" Rep. Joe Wilson's lie turns lucrative; why are all the taxpayers at the 9/12 march white?
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September 16, 2009
The Supreme Court is poised to overrule decisions restricting corporate speech in political campaigns.
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September 9, 2009
Zelaya talks to Tom Hayden.
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September 9, 2009
It's bizarre and more than a little infuriating that a champion of social justice has become the latest right-wing bogeyman.
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September 9, 2009
If Obama leads, the people will rally to his side. A good way to remind voters of the bold change they voted for last fall: ordering a hard cap on executive pay.
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September 2, 2009
The window is open for President Obama and a Democratic Congress to finally reform our healthcare system. Success means a bill with a strong public option, not a watered-down "bipartisan" measure.
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August 26, 2009
Help for healthcare heroes; torture at the top.
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August 26, 2009
Remembering Senator Edward Kennedy, who broke barriers of personality and partisanship.
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August 26, 2009
Trust the judgment of the American majority, who say this war is no longer worth fighting.
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August 12, 2009
An explosive story by The Nation's Jeremy Scahill sheds new light on the shady dealings of Blackwater, leading to renewed calls for a Congressional investigation into the military contracting company.
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August 12, 2009
A tribute to Sidney Zion; Obama's former doctor enters the healthcare debate; Henry Louis Gates Jr. wows the crowd.
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August 12, 2009
Progressives must challenge the obstructionists in both parties who can't see which way the wind is blowing.
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July 29, 2009
A haunting documentary shines a light on the foreign "fixers" who work behind the scenes with reporters to determine how the story of war gets told.
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July 29, 2009
Prison-based gerrymandering; a college journalist's big scoop about Bill Clinton; our day in court
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July 24, 2009
A farewell "Yippie!" from his friends.
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July 21, 2009
An editorial says Walter Cronkite doesn't really tell it as it is.
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July 15, 2009
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July 15, 2009
To prevent catastrophic climate change, wealthy nations must pony up on emissions cuts and subsidies to the developing world.
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July 15, 2009
If the vice president ordered the CIA to deceive Congress, he broke the law--and must be held accountable.
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July 1, 2009
The Nation and the NAACP; democracy derailed in Honduras; Sotomayor and Ricci
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July 1, 2009
Getting a Medicare-style public plan as part of healthcare reform is a winnable fight.
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June 24, 2009
Sebastian Jones on healthcare reform, Nisa Qazi on refugees in Pakistan, John Nichols on NOW's Kim Gandy
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June 17, 2009
John Nichols on antiwar Democrats, Corbin Hiar on Greenland and global warming, The Nation Associates on Ning
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June 17, 2009
The world is watching as the next chapter in the future of Iran unfolds.
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June 12, 2009
Spiro Agnew had his hand out, but all he got for it was a slap on the wrist.
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June 10, 2009
An oil giant settles in human rights lawsuit; Virginia's Mr. Anonymous wins primary; American reporters convicted in North Korea; Doris Shaffer remembered.
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June 10, 2009
In a slipping economy, the debt burden for students is crippling. Obama's modest but elegant plan is a step in the right direction.
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June 3, 2009
Voting rights for Kuwaiti women; Steve Earle's tribute to Townes Van Zandt; remembering Amos Elon
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June 3, 2009
The nationalization of General Motors and the offshoring of its jobs are yet another sign that we are moving toward a jobless recovery.
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May 27, 2009
Meltdown in Motown: A Nation forum in Detroit gauges the city's pain and looks for solutions.
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May 27, 2009
Conservatives should think twice before using Sonia Sotomayor's Latina identity against her.
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May 20, 2009
After insulting veterans, Homeland Security gets a do-over on a report on right-wing extremism; mass transit comes to small towns.
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May 20, 2009
Obama's reversal of the decision to release photos of detainee abuse is unsettling and wrongheaded.
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May 14, 2009
Now that the US has exploded its first hydrogen bomb, a negotiated peace with the Soviet Union is more important than ever.
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May 13, 2009
The paper industry's tax loophole; healthcare reform protesters under arrest; apartheid victims' day in court; a Hillman award for The Nation.
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May 13, 2009
Premature optimism about the economy could swiftly undermine the president's credibility. Stand by, taxpayers: there may be more rescues ahead.
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May 6, 2009
Heather Boushey on the Healthy Families Act; Katrina vandenHeuvel on Pete Seeger at 90
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May 5, 2009
The terrible tragedy of the Titanic was entirely preventable.
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May 5, 2009
Franklin Roosevelt is elected on the promise of a new deal, something the country needs desperately.
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May 4, 2009
Robert F. Kennedy campaigned for peace on a platform that courageously opposed the policies that his brother set in motion.
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May 4, 2009
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller turns a prison-wide protest into a wholesale slaughter.
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May 4, 2009
The Supreme Court gives women the right to choose while also rendering an important lesson on the practical workings of democracy.
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May 4, 2009
With what seemed a lifetime worth of achievements behind him, how was it possible that Martin Luther King Jr. was only 39 when he was killed?
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May 4, 2009
John Hinckley may have been the one to pull the trigger, but who's to blame for his anger?
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May 4, 2009
Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford, but he still has much to prove.
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April 30, 2009
The murder of four students by the National Guard at Kent State should have, and could have, been prevented.
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April 29, 2009
Arlen Specter's switch; The Progressive turns 100.
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April 29, 2009
So far, there's much to be optimistic about. But the bank bailout and Afghanistan policy are cause for continued concern.
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April 24, 2009
Charles Guiteau was unhappy with the way the civil service treated him, so he shot President Garfield.
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April 24, 2009
Long before Richard Nixon and Watergate, the nation suffers through another long political nightmare--the election of 1876.
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April 24, 2009
Ron Ziegler may have called it a third-rate burglary, but the men who broke in to the Democratic National Committee headquarters all had a connection to the president's re-election campaign.
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April 23, 2009
The future of Germany and the chances of a lasting peace in Europe are intertwined. Potsdam took care of one and made a start on the other.
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April 22, 2009
Jane Harman's wiretap, Chávez and Obama, justice in Guatemala, a remembrance of Walter Schneir
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April 22, 2009
A kindly, genial man who should never have given up his career as a journalist.
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April 22, 2009
Little Bighorn could end up being as disastrous for the Indians as it was for General Custer.
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April 22, 2009
On Wall Street, the Panic of 1873 was more like brute terror.
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April 22, 2009
Surrender hasn't stopped Japan from resisting.
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April 22, 2009
The midterm elections don't portend well for the possibility of a second Hoover administration.
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April 21, 2009
With SNCC's new chairman Stokely Carmichael and his chant for "black power" the civil rights movement takes on a different tone.
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April 15, 2009
John Nichols on Michelle Obama's garden, R.H. Lossin on bounced-check fees, David Cole on the rule of law, Russian kudos for Stephen F. Cohen
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April 8, 2009
John Nichols on rainbow pusher Merle Hansen; Richard Kim on April's "queer quake."
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April 8, 2009
Obama's hybrid approach to healthcare reform will succeed if progressives come together to support smart, incremental improvements in public programs.
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April 8, 2009
Movies that talk, and pictures from a box in your living room? What is the world coming to?
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April 6, 2009
In a possible prelude to World War III, America invades Russia following World War I.
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April 3, 2009
President Eisenhower sends federal troops to defend the
Constitution in Little Rock.
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April 3, 2009
He was such a great general that two disastrous terms as president did little to dim his star.
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April 3, 2009
It's anybody's guess about what kind of president Theodore Roosevelt will turn out to be.
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April 3, 2009
The House of Representatives chooses Panama over Nicaragua for America's ambitious plan to dig a canal.
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April 3, 2009
What hath Mrs. O'Leary's cow wrought?
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April 3, 2009
The Interstate Commerce Commission says yes to Jim Crow.
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April 2, 2009
At the 1896 Democratic convention, William Jennings Bryan delivers a speech for the ages.
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April 2, 2009
Sarah Arnold on the Rockefeller drug laws; Ari Melber on Obama's citizen Q&A; Manning Marable on the life of Dr. John Hope Franklin; John Nichols on Arlen Specter's stab in the back.
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April 2, 2009
If ever there was a time for bold US leadership, this is it.
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April 2, 2009
Huey sleeps with the other kingfish.
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April 2, 2009
The only person in 1948 who thought Truman had a chance in 1948 was Harry, and even he wasn't all that convinced.
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April 1, 2009
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer writes a letter to the editor, defending the Red Scare.
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April 1, 2009
President Wilson sent troops to Mexico to capture Pancho Villa, and now he's keeping them there with an eye toward the 1916 election.
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April 1, 2009
A brief comment notes that Jeanette Rankin is the first woman to have been elected to the House of Representatives.
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April 1, 2009
The Nation says the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand could have serious political consequences. The writer got that right.
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April 1, 2009
A review of two aviation books that were publish prior to the Wright brothers first flight.
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March 26, 2009
Esther Kaplan on the SEIU and the California Nurses Association's "game changer"; Bruce Shapiro on the death penalty; praise and prizes for The Nation.
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March 26, 2009
In the end, the treasury secretary's fate is less important than the fate of the economic principles he has championed.
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March 25, 2009
The Washington Post and its reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize for demonstrating the immense value of an independent press.
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March 18, 2009
Iraq by the numbers, six years on; John Nichols on The Daily Show's meltdown smackdown.
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March 18, 2009
In a climate of crisis, it would be foolish for Democrats to retreat from the one measure that could rebalance our disastrous economic formula: pass the EFCA.
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March 11, 2009
Arthur C. Danto steps down as art critic of The Nation but continues as a contributing editor.
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March 11, 2009
Robert Dreyfuss on the assault against Charles Freeman, Edward McClelland on the right of the homeless to hold office, Barbara Crossette on Lakhdar Brahimi
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March 11, 2009
Don't listen to the fearmongers: government-run healthcare is cost-efficient, effective and far superior to the free-market mess we're in.
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March 4, 2009
Max Fraser on Republic Windows & Doors, John Nichols on the FCC and on Obama's pick for commerce secretary, Loren Lynch on carbon caps
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March 4, 2009
Obama's exit plan leaves unresolved the role of private security contractors and the residual force of as many as 50,000 troops that will remain in place.
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February 25, 2009
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February 25, 2009
Let's make sure Obama's investment in America's future isn't squandered in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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February 18, 2009
Richard Lingeman remembers Robert Bendiner, John Nichols laments Roland Burris, William Greider takes heart at the appointment of union man Ron Bloom to Obama's economics team.
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February 18, 2009
As the GOP chooses to be the party of No, Obama takes his case to a largely supportive nation. It's up to him to claim his mandate.
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February 18, 2009
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February 18, 2009
In big ways and small, the recession is having an impact on our daily lives. Help The Nation track the changes.
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February 17, 2009
The pro-Ku Klux Klan message of Birth of a Nation inspired thousands of Americans to join the hate group and helped get government censors work.
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February 11, 2009
Max Fraser on New York Wage Watch, Denise DiStephan on the Paycheck Fairness Act, John Nichols on Hilda Solis, Deborah Meier on teachers organizing
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February 11, 2009
Don't exhaust the Treasury to keep insolvent financial giants alive. The government should liquidate failed banks, sell off their assets and let shareholders eat the dust.
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February 4, 2009
The fall of Tom Daschle and the RNC's choice of Michael Steele.
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February 4, 2009
For the sake of the country, his presidency and peace in South Asia, Obama should take the US-led military escalation in Afghanistan off the table.
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February 4, 2009
The prize, an original drawing by Edward Sorel, is awarded to Kristen Wack. Here is what she thinks Bush should do in retirement, along with some other ideas.
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January 28, 2009
Katha Pollitt on Obama and global gag rule, Megan Buskey on AIDS in Iran, Corbin Hiar on elections in Ghana, Sonia Shah on scientists for human rights
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January 28, 2009
Tom Geoghegan, labor lawyer, writer and activist, is running for Congress on a platform that's a model for the post-meltdown era.
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January 22, 2009
Why has Howard Dean become a virtual stranger to the Democratic Party he helped revive?
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January 22, 2009
John Nichols on Pete Seeger, Roberto Lovato on censorship in San Antonio.
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January 22, 2009
Obama declines to "criminalize policy differences"--but what about holding lawbreakers to account?
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January 22, 2009
With realism, grit and hope, Obama begins a new era: his first hundred days will be a decisive test of his resolve and vision.
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January 15, 2009
Ari Melber on Change.gov and torture, Esther Kaplan on an SEIU blunder, John Nichols on Obama's technology guru.
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January 14, 2009
Barack Obama's nomination of Eric Holder as the next Attorney General deserves special scrutiny as he appears Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. A panel of Nation experts add their questions to the mix.
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January 13, 2009
We cannot help but feel that Roosevelt's Cabinet will be progressive, forward-looking and able to grapple intelligently with the crisis.
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January 13, 2009
Herbert Hoover's record as a false prophet was consistent to the end.
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January 13, 2009
Not since Abraham Lincoln has the need for effective leadership and prompt, vigorous action been more imperative.
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January 12, 2009
FDR's New Deal is blowing away Washington's old line powerbrokers on the strength of FDR's personality and his ability to use the radio to get his message across to the American people.
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January 12, 2009
Not since Abraham Lincoln has the need for effective leadership and prompt, vigorous action been more imperative.
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January 12, 2009
Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of State takes questions today from
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Nation has some questions of
its own.
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January 7, 2009
Ari Berman on Howard Dean, Christopher Hayes on Lawrence Lessig, Shane Bauer on Al Jazeera, remembering George Kirschner
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January 7, 2009
Without concerted action by Obama resolve the crisis in Gaza, hope for a two-state settlement will fade and the region will be cursed with many more years of bloodshed.
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