Nation Topics - Britain | The Nation

The financial crunch has broken the illusion of stability, exposing a deeper crisis of representation.

With the 2012 elections projected to be the priciest ever, we must rein in the billions of influence-peddling dollars flowing toward Washington.

Two decades ago, nearly one-sixth of the population was forcibly expelled. How did King Wangchuck escape any real censure?

The eurocrisis fully exposes the folly of deficit mania in a time of recession. So why are the GOP candidates still oblivious?

Jenny Martinez and Kathryn Sikkink offer conflicting histories of the ascendency of international courts.

Has Silvio Berlusconi’s corruption deprived Italians of their liberty?

A critic of pop’s retro turn can’t shake his own strain of pop nostalgia.

What US progressives can learn from British efforts to fight inequality.

Visiting occupations in New York, Madrid, London and beyond, one finds almost eerie similarities, but also important differences.

Melissa Benn attacks the deepening rift of privilege and privatization in Britain’s secondary schools.