Nation Topics - Truman | The Nation

Weakling at home, imperial president abroad.

In a momentous strategic shift, President Obama has begun a military buildup in East Asia in a foolish attempt to intimidate China. It will bring blowback, and a greater risk of war.

He can, if he presents a just peace plan supported by former Presidents Clinton and Bush.

Nick Cullather’s The Hungry World teaches us that US agricultural assistance in Asia during the cold war was a Green Counterrevolution.

When the Democratic Party fails to use government’s extensive powers to reverse economic disorder, it must be the end of the line for the governing ideology inherited from Roosevelt, Truman and Johnson.

Grassroots activists and Beltway insiders are fighting for the soul of Obama's Democratic Party.

The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream.

For the Christian right, to reject a bigoted preacher is to deny "the right to pray."

Gary Wills's Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State; Elizabeth Arnold's Effacement.