Clean Energy Victory Bonds Clean Energy Victory Bonds
An idea from the past could help secure the future.
Sep 7, 2010 / Peter Rothberg
Briefing: Katrina vanden Heuvel on Class Warfare from the Top Down Briefing: Katrina vanden Heuvel on Class Warfare from the Top Down
When people like Elizabeth Warren are demonized and deficits are a point of obsession, it's not the rich who have to worry about class warfare, says Katrina vanden Heuvel.
Sep 7, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
Finding a Way Out of Afghanistan Finding a Way Out of Afghanistan
A report to be released tomorrow by the Afghanistan Study Group has the potential to change the direction of the war.
Sep 7, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bluer Rather Than Pinker Bluer Rather Than Pinker
How much does language tell us what to see, and hence what to think?
Sep 7, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
For-Profit Colleges’ Latest Lesson to Students: How to Fight Stricter Regulation of Schools For-Profit Colleges’ Latest Lesson to Students: How to Fight Stricter Regulation of Schools
For-profit colleges have been enlisting students to write letters opposing proposed regulation that could limit federal student aid.
Sep 7, 2010 / StudentNation / Marian Wang, ProPublica
The Pentagon Triumphant on the Media Battlefield The Pentagon Triumphant on the Media Battlefield
The military's media megaphone and the U.S. global military presence.
Sep 7, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt
Obama Calculates Israel-Palestine Timing to Short-Circuit AIPAC Obama Calculates Israel-Palestine Timing to Short-Circuit AIPAC
Will Abbas declare Palestine an independent state if talks fail? And if so, how would Obama react?
Sep 7, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Summer of our Sporting Discontent Summer of our Sporting Discontent
By any measure this country is in an ugly mood. Double-digit unemployment and a growing sense that the environment, economy, and empire are heading south, has Americans walking wit...
Sep 7, 2010 / Dave Zirin
How’s That Hopey-Faithy-Charity Stuff Workin’ Out for Beck? How’s That Hopey-Faithy-Charity Stuff Workin’ Out for Beck?
Beck and his people, goes the emerging consensus, are good, polite, and tolerant. And, oh yeah, they’re not political.
Sep 7, 2010 / Leslie Savan
Obama Should Borrow a Page From FDR This Labor Day Obama Should Borrow a Page From FDR This Labor Day
The president should scrap his cautious talk about compromise and bipartisanship. It's time to take a side.
Sep 6, 2010 / John Nichols