Nation Topics - Conservatives and the American Right | The Nation

Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.

A close look at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reveals a deeply conservative and increasingly bitter man.

How can the left be as adept as the right-wing spin machine at communicating its political agenda? Learn how to use the tools.

The oppression of Muslim women is a major theme among the Islamofascistly aware. If only they felt the same about other women on earth.

Some herald the election of an Indian-American Republican governor as a milestone, but the poor and black citizens of Louisiana aren't among them.

Consider the plight of the embattled liberal hawks and their lonely struggle to discredit the left.

The Christian right is embroiled in an internal culture war, pitting true believers against pragmatists looking for a candidate to satisfy the antitax and neoconservative wings of the GOP.

Bush and the neocons are trying to save their crumbling reputations by blaming critics of the war for the debacle.

He has a strong claim on the neoconservative heart, and if he ends up in the White House, the moribund neocons will rise again.

Christian conservatives play the porn card in an attempt to discredit Mitt Romney and advance the cause of Fred Thompson.