The Wrong Moral Revolution: On Michael Barnett The Wrong Moral Revolution: On Michael Barnett
To see humanitarianism everywhere is not to see it at all.
Oct 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / David Rieff
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Fatale, Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write About This Place, Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The History of Costaguana
Oct 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Alexandra Schwartz
Getting to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama Getting to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama
The Origins of Political Order, a work of total world history, pits the old Fukuyama against the new.
Oct 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney
The Politics of Occupy Wall Street: Bernie Sanders, Progressives, Big Unions Endorse; Obama’s Silent The Politics of Occupy Wall Street: Bernie Sanders, Progressives, Big Unions Endorse; Obama’s Silent
A movement once dismissed is now embraced by Teamsters, MoveOn, key Democrats and even Ron Paul. Obama? Not so much.
Oct 5, 2011 / John Nichols
Occupy Your City Occupy Your City
The #OccupyWallStreet movement against economic injustice is spreading like wildfire.
Oct 5, 2011 / Peter Rothberg
What Would Keynes Do? A Forum What Would Keynes Do? A Forum
Economists and wonks respond to Thomas Geoghegan's Nation essay “What Would Keynes Do?”
Oct 5, 2011 / Doug Henwood, Matt Yglesias, and James K. Galbraith
Live From Liberty Square: Laura Flanders at Occupy Wall Street Live From Liberty Square: Laura Flanders at Occupy Wall Street
A live feed of a special broadcast from the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City.
Oct 5, 2011 / Laura Flanders
‘If the South Would Have Won’: The NFL and Hank Williams Jr. ‘If the South Would Have Won’: The NFL and Hank Williams Jr.
Hank Williams Jr compared Obama to Hitler. ESPN seemed surprised. We shouldn’t be.
Oct 5, 2011 / Dave Zirin
Nurses’ Prescription for Healing Our Economy Nurses’ Prescription for Healing Our Economy
When it comes to a financial transactions tax, European conservatives and American nurses are way ahead of President Obama.
Oct 5, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Students Join Occupy Movement Students Join Occupy Movement
A nation-wide student walk-out is planned for today, Oct. 5, at noon. From New York to Los Angeles, students will march in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Oct 5, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation