Nation contributer Naomi Klein discusses her book, The Shock Doctrine, and how moments of crisis are seen as moments to act.

Katrina vanden Heuvel on the meaning of patriotism this July 4. Plus, some of our most compelling interviews from the first half of 2008.

Jeff Madrick on Clintonomics; John Nichols on the Ron Paul revolt; Ari Berman on superdelegate fence-sitters

Longshoremen protest the war, Ken Livingstone loses London, Zephyr Teachout blogs The Nation.

The country's off-track; Blackwater's back in business; J. Goodrich
blogs at The Nation.com.

Henry Paulson's pitiful reform; Michelle Bachelet, bedeviled by Opus
Dei; Pentagon follies; and indecency in Indiana.

Prizes for The Nation, Pelosi in Tibet, counting the casualties.

Is America ready for a nonideological problem solver with liberal views on gun control, gay rights and abortion?

According to Chalmers Johnson, Bush's imperial presidency may be the final chapter in the collapse of American democracy.

Iraq has become a liability the GOP can hardly afford.