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December 23, 2008
A closer look at Obama's "green team," journalists behind bars and John Nichols on potential labor secretary Hilda Solis.
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December 23, 2008
It's time for progressives to create coalitions and craft smart strategies that will push Obama and the new Congress to seize this moment.
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December 17, 2008
An award for Nation reporter Mohamad Bazzi, a detention forNation board member Richard Falk.
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December 17, 2008
Hysteria over looters in the storm-ravaged city had grave unintended consequences. Justice must be done.
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December 17, 2008
GOP lawmakers are taking aim at autoworkers but letting overpaid CEOs off the hook.
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December 10, 2008
Eric Foner on Dorothy Sterling, Brett Story on Canadian politics, John Nichols on senator selections
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December 10, 2008
If the economy continues to deteriorate, the poor won't just always be with us--they'll be us.
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December 3, 2008
Dissenting views on Iraq and Afghanistan will have to come not from the hawkish national security team, but from outside Washington, and from Obama himself.
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December 3, 2008
Wal-Mart's toxic workplace; higher ed takes a hit; the right-wing blame game.
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December 3, 2008
There is no military solution to the crisis in South Asia. It falls to Barack Obama to create a new path out of the deepening Afghan-Pakistan crisis.
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November 25, 2008
Kudos to Minnesota's recount process; and kudos to Van Jones, 2008 recipient of the $100,000 Puffin/Nation Prize for green economy activism.
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November 25, 2008
On Day One, Congress must present Obama with a bold stimulus plan focused on putting people to work, rebuilding infrastructure and expanding the productive capacity of the economy.
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November 19, 2008
Kristina Rizga on harnessing young voters' energy, Stephen Duncombe on a spoof edition of the New York Times
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November 13, 2008
Third-party gains, good times for Wal-Mart, the Minnesota recount and what's next for Howard Dean.
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November 13, 2008
If Democrats can succeed in improving people's lives, the electorate won't care whether the Obama administration governs from left, right or center.
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November 6, 2008
Reactions to the Obama victory from London and Nairobi.
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November 6, 2008
Celebrating a new president's promise to respect, empower and include all Americans.
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October 29, 2008
John Nichols on problematic pardons, Sarah H. Arnold on debate protesters.
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October 29, 2008
To change the country, to make our voices heard and, most of all, to declare that we are all in this together.
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October 22, 2008
Lucas Mann on new voters, Cole Robertson and Robert Eshelman on ballot initiatives, Katrina vanden Heuvel on the Working Families Party.
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October 22, 2008
As a nation hopeful for change heads to the polls, there is reason to believe progressive voices will be heard.
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October 16, 2008
John Nichols on Sarah Palin's "vindication," David Cole on phone sex and national security, Danielle Douglas on Haiti.
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October 16, 2008
If nationalizing banks is suddenly on the table, what else might be placed there?
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October 8, 2008
Philip Weiss on how grassroots activists on Capitol Hill trumped AIPAC to block a bad measure on Iran.
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October 8, 2008
Government can soften the recession's impact by spending money--lots of it--to stimulate the real economy.
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October 1, 2008
D.D. Guttenplan on British politics, Nancy Kranich on Banned Books Week
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September 24, 2008
What kind of government intervention will we have? Whom will it benefit? Ten observers on the right way to settle Wall Street's toxic debts.
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September 17, 2008
Tricky Dick Cheney, Canada Greens, the truth about the Rosenberg trial
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September 17, 2008
Puncturing John McCain's Teddy Roosevelt persona will require brutal honesty from Barack Obama--about the causes of the crash and the regulatory solutions.
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September 10, 2008
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September 10, 2008
Reading Bob Woodward, defending Amy Goodman, evaluating Governor Palin.
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September 10, 2008
Instead of bailing out the money guys who created the housing crisis, Washington should concentrate on healing the victims.
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September 3, 2008
Sarah Palin, pit bull in lipstick; Amy Goodman behind bars.
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September 3, 2008
Populist politics in Denver; an elaborate fraud in St. Paul.
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August 28, 2008
Dems and the Constitution, dispatches from Denver, journos rescue our correspondent in Georgia.
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August 28, 2008
It could have been worse--a lot worse.
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August 28, 2008
Eight years ago, the people gave the GOP the keys to the country. It's time to take them back.
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August 13, 2008
The I-word, back on the table; Fannie Lou Hamer and the Democrats.
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August 13, 2008
The tepid platform Democrats will adopt in Denver isn't a new social contract, but it does go places Republicans never will. Let's hope Obama does better.
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July 31, 2008
Flawed and flamboyant, the charismatic Jesse Jackson wasn't the perfect candidate, but his idealism led The Nation to endorse his bid for the White House.
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July 31, 2008
When Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate, The Nation was skeptical.
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July 30, 2008
Naomi Sobel on efforts to improve conditions at the notorious Postville, Iowa kosher slaughterhouse; Nation correspondents on Obama's world tour.
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July 16, 2008
The Nation joins the ACLU and several other organizations and attorneys in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the FISA act.
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July 16, 2008
Ari Melber tracks the continuing fight over FISA; Stuart Klawans remembers Thomas Disch.
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July 16, 2008
His plan to exit Iraq falls far short of the complete withdrawal most Americans want. But it's a place to start.
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July 1, 2008
Civil liberties, at home and abroad; saving Jeff Wood from Texas's death row.
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July 1, 2008
The Supreme Court's final rulings remind us that civil rights and a sane vision of the Constitution rest with the next President's judicial appointments.
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July 1, 2008
Obama and other Senate Democrats should not let a lame-duck Administration compromise our liberties in the name of pursuing terrorists.
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June 26, 2008
George Carlin knew words could never be as obscene as wars; Barack Obama goes for the money, but at what cost?
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June 26, 2008
Congress bails out the banks, but needs to do far more for homeowners devastated by the subprime crisis.
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June 19, 2008
Katrina vanden Heuvel analyzes the shuttering of Moscow's English-language alternative newspaper, the eXile; John Cavanagh remembers Stewart Mott.
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June 19, 2008
Barack Obama may yet become the reform President who rearranges power on behalf of the people. But he'll need to resist the brotherhood of cozy insiders.
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June 12, 2008
Dennis Kucinich's impeachment play; architects of the subprime mortgage disaster; sexism and the Clinton campaign.
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June 12, 2008
Let's hope Barack Obama resists the impulse to move to the center on one of the most contentious issues of the campaign: leaving Iraq.
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June 11, 2008
What to call our current economic era? An all-star progressive panel of judges will pore over the entries and announce a winner.
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June 5, 2008
Walter Mosley joins the editorial board, Dave Zirin becomes the magazine's first sports correspondent.
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June 5, 2008
John Nichols on Scott McClellan's book; Army Chaplain James Yee, Obama convention delegate; George Monbiot attempts a citizen's arrest; Mohamad Bazzi's prizewinning reporting on the Middle East.
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June 5, 2008
The Democratic nominee is betting on the basic decency of the American people, their hunger for a discussion of issues and their desire for real change.
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May 29, 2008
Farmworkers prevail in a long confrontation with Burger King, Dave Zirin interviews Mary Tillman, This Brave Nation debuts June 1 on The Nation.com.
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May 29, 2008
It's time for candidates to focus on issues missing from the debate so far: the bloated military budget, an exit from Bush's "war on terror," our failing infrastructure and the deepening financial crisis.
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May 22, 2008
Sam Adams shakes up Portland; the House votes for peace; we offer kudos to Kors and send get-well wishes to Ted Kennedy.
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May 22, 2008
Despite the Bush/McCain snake oil on Mideast policy, Obama can make the case that talking to your enemies isn't the same as appeasing Hitler.
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May 15, 2008
Jeff Madrick on Clintonomics; John Nichols on the Ron Paul revolt; Ari Berman on superdelegate fence-sitters
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May 15, 2008
The crisis in Burma justifies humanitarian intervention--but it should be carried out by the UN and limited to emergency relief.
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May 8, 2008
Longshoremen protest the war, Ken Livingstone loses London, Zephyr Teachout blogs The Nation.
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May 8, 2008
Finally, the Democratic campaign can begin to focus on what really matters--healthcare, the economy and leaving Iraq.
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May 1, 2008
Nasty political advertising in Mississippi and your bloated grocery bill.
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May 1, 2008
What should we do when Big Media fails democracy? First, don't let it get any bigger.
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April 24, 2008
A fractured death penalty ruling, the Pentagon's pimping pundits, campus antisweatshop campaigns and Guggenheims for Nation poets.
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April 24, 2008
Voters and superdelegates now must ask at what cost Clinton is willing to continue this fight.
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April 17, 2008
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April 17, 2008
Frederika Randall on Berlusconi's return, John Nichols on fast-tracking Colombia, Jayati Vora on Patrick Cockburn's Muqtada, Christopher Hayes on the new Israel lobby.
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April 17, 2008
Boycotts of the Beijing Olympics are easy. What's harder is moving China towards meaningful progress on human rights.
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April 10, 2008
The questions raised by Hawaii's annexation have implications far beyond its shores: the imperial past forms the legal scaffolding of the imperial present.
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April 9, 2008
Mark Penn's quasi-demotion is too little, too late.
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April 9, 2008
The Bush Administration's mission to transform NATO promises to do great
damage to international peace and cooperation.
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April 9, 2008
The Petraeus hearings reveal a political class--Democrats and
Republicans--trapped in concentric circles of imperial myopia.
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April 8, 2008
In 1893, The Nation raised a warning about how colonization would affect the state of the union.
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April 3, 2008
Henry Paulson's pitiful reform; Michelle Bachelet, bedeviled by Opus
Dei; Pentagon follies; and indecency in Indiana.
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April 3, 2008
New revelations of political interference in the prosecution of Gitmo
prisoners shows Team Bush scrambling to keep one step ahead of
history--and of criminal charges.
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March 27, 2008
Prizes for The Nation, Pelosi in Tibet, counting the casualties.
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March 20, 2008
To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Deal, The Nation invited a panel of activists, writers, scholars and artists to reflect on its lasting lessons.
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March 20, 2008
Congress finds a spine on wiretapping; a young writer defends the New Deal.
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March 20, 2008
The power of Wall Street money and ideas must give way to a new public agenda to restore the real economy.
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March 19, 2008
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March 18, 2008
How Alexander Hamilton "fell into as difficult a position as a public man has ever known, and extricated himself by means which show how much the conventional standards of morals have changed in America since his time."
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March 13, 2008
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March 13, 2008
Among the major causes of the current economic crisis is the staggering cost of the war in Iraq.
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March 6, 2008
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March 6, 2008
Victor Navasky on William F. Buckley, John Nichols on Dennis Kucinich, Amy Traub on America's mayors.
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March 6, 2008
Clinton's scorched-earth tactics have helped put the integrity of the electoral process at risk. Do Democrats have the will to make the process fair?
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March 4, 2008
"To achieve 'social values more noble than mere monetary profit,' to
'keep the money changers permanently out of the temple of our
civilization'...would be to transform America."
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February 28, 2008
He doesn't just take money from lobbyists--they're running his campaign.
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February 28, 2008
Joseph Cirincione on shooting down satellites, John Nichols on Ralph Nader, Ari Melber tracks the net.
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February 21, 2008
Polk Award winners at The Nation, progressive endorsements and buyouts at GM.
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February 21, 2008
The House stalemate with the White House over electronic surveillance creates a rare moment to reconsider an array of unconstitutional post-9/11 laws.
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February 14, 2008
Uncommitted superdelegates, antiwar agitation in Berkeley, immunity for telecoms and more.
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February 14, 2008
The bloated military budget is choking our democracy--and it must become an issue in the presidential campaign.
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February 7, 2008
Electoral math, post Super Tuesday; Richard Honaker's judicial activism; mobilizing for Obama.
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February 7, 2008
He offers the best chance to redefine the center of American politics and forge a new progressive majority.
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January 31, 2008
A "green" Hummer, bad karma from Firestone tires at the Super Bowl, MIA at the Oscars, remembering Milton Wolff.
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January 31, 2008
What happens when the President gives a State of the Union address and nobody listens?
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January 29, 2008
Wall Street crashes; thousands of people are wiped out, but the
worst is yet to come.
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January 24, 2008
Arguing Indiana's voter ID law; counting Bush's Iraq lies; remembering Chile's truth-teller, Patricia Verdugo.
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January 24, 2008
A humane and sensible stimulus package would put money in the hands of those who need it.
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January 17, 2008
Victor Navasky on failed punditry, Frida Berrigan on Bush's Israeli pilgrimage, Esther Kaplan on activist nurses.
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January 17, 2008
When will the candidates cease their petty sniping and address the real issues: the Iraq War and the faltering economy?
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January 10, 2008
Rainbow/PUSH's Wall Street Project Economic Summit, the no-show Golden Globes, postwar suicides.
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January 10, 2008
Throw polls and pundits out the window: the race will be decided not by kingmakers but by the voters themselves.
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January 3, 2008
Guest blogging at The Nation.com, gazing into Kristol's ball, revisiting Hoover's roundup.
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