Predator’s Ball Predator’s Ball
The Republicans' reliance on corporate underwriting belies their recent commitment to populist democratic action.
Oct 20, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Can Karzai Cut Pakistan Out of a Deal With the Taliban? No Can Karzai Cut Pakistan Out of a Deal With the Taliban? No
The Afghan president also faces armed resistance to a Taliban deal from his erstwhile allies in the old, anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, who are rearing and preparing for civil war...
Oct 20, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Feingold Battles Back Feingold Battles Back
After trailing by double-digits, the Wisconsin senator is now in a dead heat, according to a new poll.
Oct 19, 2010 / John Nichols
Conversation: Stephen Cohen on the Survivors of Stalin’s Gulag Conversation: Stephen Cohen on the Survivors of Stalin’s Gulag
According to Cohen, half of Russia looks back to Joseph Stalin as a great leader and the other half as a genocidal murderer. In his new book, he examines the ongoing struggle to ...
Oct 19, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Nation on Grit TV
Commentary: Betsy Reed on Lou Dobbs’s Immigration Contradictions Commentary: Betsy Reed on Lou Dobbs’s Immigration Contradictions
All the attention given to Dobbs's hypocrisy risks obscuring the deeper lesson to learn from this case: that undocumented workers are so thoroughly woven into the fabric of our e...
Oct 19, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
Ari Melber Analyzes Obama’s Lost Message on CNN’s Parker/Spitzer Ari Melber Analyzes Obama’s Lost Message on CNN’s Parker/Spitzer
What happened to "hope" and "change"? Melber says Obama's campaign promises may not be dead yet.
Oct 19, 2010 / CNN
Learning From Lou Dobbs’s Hypocrisy Learning From Lou Dobbs’s Hypocrisy
Fighting for the labor rights of undocumented workers will improve the working conditions for all Americans, argues Isabel Macdonald in the Guardian.
Oct 19, 2010 / Press Room
Leave ‘Em in the Locker Room Leave ‘Em in the Locker Room
Professional athletes make lousy public officials.
Oct 19, 2010 / Robert Lipsyte
The “Privilege” of Being a Student at a Corporate University The “Privilege” of Being a Student at a Corporate University
Debates about bonuses, endowments, and financial aid is not one of numbers and budgets—but of values.
Oct 19, 2010 / StudentNation / James Cersonsky
What’s Become of Obama’s Grassroots Political Movement? What’s Become of Obama’s Grassroots Political Movement?
A top former Obama adviser explains how the president moved from a transformational leader to a transactional one.
Oct 19, 2010 / Ari Berman