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torture protest

Zero Dark Thirty has us arguing over whether torture works, not whether it should be banned.

The film is a seven-pronged attempt to making US torture and detention policies once again palatable.

There is something eerily disquieting about Antarctica, where humanity isn’t capable of enduring long.

An election campaign billboard of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The upcoming Knesset elections mark the culmination of settler dominance over the country's politics.

A camp in Haiti

Three years after the earthquake, 350,000 are still living in refugee camps, while millions in aid money is lavished on a tourist hotel.

Chuck Hagel

Rarely has the McCarthyite smear of “anti-Semitism” been revealed to be so empty as in the case of Obama’s DoD nominee.

How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.

A soldier in Afghanistan

When we will begin to learn the real lessons of Vietnam?

Drone

The National Intelligence Community’s Global Trends report reveals a future of continued fearmongering and American exceptionalism. 

Blogs

The last thing we need is having US police intelligence departments tracking down leads from the Russian secret service.

May 10, 2013

Congressional progressives held an important hearing on Capitol Hill this week, urging more transparency from the adminsitration about its drone policy.

May 9, 2013

Once again, as in run-up to Iraq war, McClatchy casts doubt on unproven WMD evidence.

May 8, 2013

It just might work. But the bombs-away crowd isn’t happy.

May 8, 2013

How else would we be safe?

May 7, 2013

The New York Times and its columnists push unproven chemical claims as Israeli assaults begin.

May 6, 2013

The president needs to seek a cease-fire and a political accord.

May 6, 2013

This week, Nation interns look back on May Days past, Western imperialism present (but ignored) and the tech world of the future.

May 3, 2013

The famed “psycho-historian” explores the true meanings, and dangers, of the new “killing technology.”

May 2, 2013

The congressman sees an opportunity to confront military bloat in the deficit debates and war-weariness.

May 1, 2013
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