Home for Thanksgiving Home for Thanksgiving
Just before Thanksgiving in 1960, The Nation published W.S. Merwin's poem for the holiday.
Nov 23, 2010 / W.S. Merwin
Will Congress Turn Its Back on Jobless Americans? Will Congress Turn Its Back on Jobless Americans?
A minority in the House of Representatives has blocked reauthorization of federal unemployment benefits. If Congress doesn't act quickly, the long-term unemployed will start dr...
Nov 23, 2010 / Christine Owens
Epitaph for Ben Sonnenberg Epitaph for Ben Sonnenberg
But still! being but a tree one cannot ask them pines touched by his sleeve's passing where to go I know not when he was buried glancing over the land going up that road ("to wait for a faraway person" sounding like the word for "pines") under the pines when spring came along the road my beloved prince he will have been perfect while the shining days are piled up how strangely awful to utter it on the death and burial of one prince this is a song. This is a song on the death and burial of one prince to utter it how strangely awful while the shining days are piled up he will have been perfect my beloved prince when spring came along the road under the pines (the word for "pines" sounding like the word "to wait for a faraway person") going up that road, glancing over the land when he was buried I know not where to go pines touched by his sleeve's passing one cannot ask them being but a tree, but still!
Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Anne Carson
Chalmers Johnson and the Patriotic Struggle Against Empire Chalmers Johnson and the Patriotic Struggle Against Empire
A true heir to the founders of a republic forged in opposition to colonialism, Chalmers Johnson gave us a modern language to explain the folly of empire.
Nov 23, 2010 / John Nichols
NATO Against Mars? Count Anne Applebaum In NATO Against Mars? Count Anne Applebaum In
Post op-ed scribbler suggests that since NATO has done so well in Afghanistan, even Russia might join NATO to fight China.
Nov 23, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
War Is a Lie War Is a Lie
With a groundbreaking new book, veteran antiwar activist David Swanson argues that: "The oil in the [war] machine is lies. The monkey wrench we can throw into the gears is pu...
Nov 23, 2010 / John Nichols
Afghan Farce: ‘Taliban’ Talker Was Phony! Afghan Farce: ‘Taliban’ Talker Was Phony!
Talking is still the way out. But, as Casey Stengel said, can't anyone here play this game?
Nov 23, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
‘It’s Bigger Than Professional Football’: Talking With NFLPA President DeMaurice Smith ‘It’s Bigger Than Professional Football’: Talking With NFLPA President DeMaurice Smith
NFL Players Association President DeMaurice Smith is calling on circles of people well beyond football fans to help the league avoid an owners' lockout in 2011.
Nov 23, 2010 / Dave Zirin
Briefing: Katrina vanden Heuvel on Confronting the Media’s Flaws Briefing: Katrina vanden Heuvel on Confronting the Media’s Flaws
Faced with the cynical coverage of the mainstream media, what can ordinary Americans do to work toward an alternative that more accurately reflects the problems facing our countr...
Nov 22, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
America’s Failed War of Attrition in Afghanistan America’s Failed War of Attrition in Afghanistan
The Obama administration is trying to kill its way to victory in Afghanistan. Not only is that strategy failing, it's making the Taliban stronger and Karzai weaker.
Nov 22, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill