Nation Topics - Fred Kaplan | The Nation

In year three, will Obama heed the lessons of Clinton or Reagan?

The military's media megaphone and the U.S. global military presence.

The nuclear dilemma in the Obama era.

To mainstream media, the Bush Administration's full-scale garrisoning of Planet Earth is simply not a news story. But in Iraq beyond, America's empire of permanent bases grows at an alarming pace.

An agreement between the United States and North
Korea resolving longstanding differences on nuclear weapons and energy
programs at first was cause for celebration. But in fact, no real
breakthrough has occurred. There is only the appearance of an
agreement.

Henry James is not a name that springs to mind when we think of adventure stories, prose epics or historical fiction.

Read Slate's symposium of "liberal hawks" reassessing their support for the Iraq war.

Whenever Gide wrote or spoke about himself directly, which was not infrequently, he would insist that his wars within were to be traced to his very genes.