Quantcast

Nation Topics - World | The Nation

Topic Page

Articles

News and Features

Wreckage from a drone strike in Yemen

The White House evidently believes it can kill us in secret and never own up to the fact.

Barack Obama

Even if we like President Obama, do we want him to be a one-man death panel?

predator drone

Congress has many options to counter the Obama Doctrine, including revising the 1973 War Powers Resolution and 2011 Authorization for Use of Military Force. 

CIA

A secret CIA drone base, a blowback world and why Washington has no learning curve.

Immigration reform protest

Will Obama’s new immigration reform agenda lead to real changes for the millions of immigrants living in legal limbo?

Zero Dark Thirty

A new Open Society Foundations report details just how far down the river we've sold this country's democratic values in our overreaching response to terror.

Judith Butler

Despite a campaign to silence them, philosophers Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti spoke at Brooklyn College on Thursday night. In an exclusive, The Nation presents the text of Butler’s remarks.

Canada border

Drones, surveillance towers, malls of the spy state and the national security police on the northern border.

CIA headquarters

A new report shows that a central element of the Bush administration response to 9/11 was itself to spread terror—on a global scale.

Dov Hikind

State Assemblyman Dov Hikind was deeply involved in the Jewish Defense League, which the FBI listed as a “violent extremist Jewish organization.” Other officials should be questioning him, not the college.

Blogs

The famed “psycho-historian” explores the true meanings, and dangers, of the new “killing technology.”

May 2, 2013

The congressman sees an opportunity to confront military bloat in the deficit debates and war-weariness.

May 1, 2013

Polls show Americans overwhelmingly oppose US action in Syria, 62-24.

May 1, 2013

When will free-traders-gone-wild own up to their complicity in brutal injustices like last week’s deadly factory fire?

April 30, 2013

Are those hunger strikers I hear? Or is it just the wind?

April 30, 2013

Common Cause CEO Bob Edgar died last week. As New Yorkers, among others, push forward on bills to change campaign financing, it's worth remembering his words.

April 29, 2013

The New York Times blows the cover off the Syrian rebel movement.

April 29, 2013

Several former Chilean student leaders are capitalizing on their high approval ratings to run for Congress and challenge Chile binomial voting system.

April 28, 2013

Gender segmentation still prevails in the workplace, the greenery of West Virginia hides the scars of strip mining and Canada's border service holds off on capturing terror suspects until new terrorism legislation came up for debate.

April 28, 2013

The answer is diplomacy, not war.

April 26, 2013