Nation Topics - David Walker | The Nation

A powerful, bipartisan coalition of deficit hawks has manufactured a center-right consensus that dominates the Beltway.

Only the deepest cuts in the country will satisfy this crowd. Will the treatment kill the patient?

A big deficit-reduction program would destroy the economy two years into the Great Crisis.

New York City

William Greider defends his analysis of how Social Security is threatened by entitlement reformists.

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
expertly balances the roots of a political revolution: the impact of a
few key leaders and the lives and aspirations of ordinary citizens
engaging with the government for the first time.

But corporate America isn't buying.

Now, here's what the deal's supposed to be: In exchange for greater
security you give up certain rights.

Secrecy is the guiding philosophy of the Bush Administration.