Nation Topics - World | The Nation

The US has managed to turn a post-communist, enemy-less world into a hive of imminent threat.

Clark discusses the work of UNDP, the launch of the 2013 Human Development Report in Mexico, the Millennium Development Goals and the many challenges that the UN will face in the future.

It wasn't pretty.

Margaret Thatcher's smiling villainy sparked a generation of dissent—and neoliberal policies that live on today.

President Fernando Lugo's ouster was called a coup in South America. But the US didn't blink.

Fifty years later, James Donovan's "metadiplomacy" shows that normal relations are possible.

Director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering tell The Nation what the military can do to prevent sexual assault.

It wasn't easy, but artists, musicians and activists met Thatcher's brutal tactics with compassionate responses.

In every way, her agenda opposed the interests of ordinary working people. How did she get so many of them to vote against their own economic interests again and again?