Nation Topics - Samantha Power | The Nation

The United States has alienated both allied regimes and their opposition movements.

With the Arab world's pro-democracy uprisings comes a resurgence for the "humanitarian hawks."

Human rights emerged not in the 1940s but the 1970s, and on the ruins of prior dreams.

A new history celebrates the nineteenth-century roots of humanitarian intervention and glosses over their imperial pretensions.

Every major Democratic player came to Texas to engage with online activists who have been key to their success. So why do netroots continue to be cast as angry and estranged?

After railing against non-violent intervention in the face of genocide, Samantha Power rethinks her stand.

A principled academic gets ground up in the media hypocrisy machine.

All the candidates reject Bush's disasters--but that won't be enough for the next administration.

Inventing Human Rights traces the roots of humanitarian concern back to the eighteenth century. But there's a world of difference between then and now.

The growing campus campaign to force universities to divest from
corporations doing business with the Sudanese government is having real
impact.