The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors
What if, from the beginning, everyone killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars had been buried in a single large cemetery easily accessible to the American public? Would it bring the fig...
May 3, 2011 / Adam Hochschild
Eighty-Nine Arrested Protesting Paul Ryan’s Medicaid Cuts Eighty-Nine Arrested Protesting Paul Ryan’s Medicaid Cuts
Plus, thousands are expected to turn out in North Carolina and Pennsylvania today to protest state budget cuts.
May 3, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny
My Friend Len Weinglass My Friend Len Weinglass
Remembering a 1950s radical who developed his values, critical thinking and world view in a time when non-conforming was rare.
May 3, 2011 / Michael Steven Smith
New Photos: Obama Overseeing the bin Laden Operation New Photos: Obama Overseeing the bin Laden Operation
The White House has long used Flickr, the photo-sharing website, to publish images from behind the scenes of government. The new pictures of the bin Laden operation are sure to cap...
May 3, 2011 / Ari Melber
Arizona’s Choice Today: Tucson Students Lead New Civil Rights Movement Arizona’s Choice Today: Tucson Students Lead New Civil Rights Movement
Stumbling further into the quagmire of a national public relations disaster, drastic new measures by the Tucson Unified School District officials have turned the “manufacture...
May 3, 2011 / StudentNation / Jeff Biggers
Searching for Closure at Ground Zero Searching for Closure at Ground Zero
Closure. That was the word on people’s lips last night after President Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan.
May 2, 2011 / Laura Flanders
The Ghost of bin Laden The Ghost of bin Laden
Now that Osama is dead, can America at last break free of the conceit of endless war?
May 2, 2011 / William Greider
Slide Show: What Will Osama bin Laden’s Death Mean for the ‘War on Terror’? Slide Show: What Will Osama bin Laden’s Death Mean for the ‘War on Terror’?
On Sunday, May 1, President Barack Obama delivered an address to the nation announcing the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. Obama’s call to Americans to remember that…
May 2, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
JSOC: The Black Ops Force That Took Down Bin Laden JSOC: The Black Ops Force That Took Down Bin Laden
Some call them “Murder, Incorporated.” Others say they're America's counterterrorism ”ace in the hole.” JSOC is the elite Special Ops force that has been at...
May 2, 2011 / Jeremy Scahill
China as Number One: Don’t Bet Your Bottom Dollar China as Number One: Don’t Bet Your Bottom Dollar
Back before 9/11, China was, of course, the favored future über-enemy of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and all those neocons who signed onto the Project for the New Ame...
May 2, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt