Who Fights and Why? Who Fights and Why?
Winter Bone—if you haven't seen this extraordinary, woman-directed film about a family in trouble in the Ozarks of Missouri, I recommend it. Grim it is. Irrelevant it is not.
Jul 8, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Top 10 Most Patriotic Songs Ever: Nation Readers Speak Top 10 Most Patriotic Songs Ever: Nation Readers Speak
Nation readers' pick!
Jul 8, 2010 / Peter Rothberg
Top 10 Most Patriotic Songs Ever: Nation Readers Speak Top 10 Most Patriotic Songs Ever: Nation Readers Speak
Nation readers' pick!
Jul 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Peter Rothberg
Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now
Even with supermajorities in both houses of Congress behind them, American presidents cannot pass the kind of transformative progressive legislation that Barack Obama promised in...
Jul 7, 2010 / Eric Alterman
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fix the Jobs Crisis, Then the Deficit Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fix the Jobs Crisis, Then the Deficit
While conservative media obsesses over the deficit and Republicans are knocking down job creation plans left and right, Obama will have to convince the American people that the d...
Jul 7, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
Hold a Special Election for Byrd’s Seat; Senators Should Never Be Appointed Hold a Special Election for Byrd’s Seat; Senators Should Never Be Appointed
There is talk that the governor may call for a "legislative remedy" that would allow for a special election this fall. He should not hesitate. It is the small "d&quo...
Jul 7, 2010 / John Nichols
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fix the Jobs Crisis, Then the Deficit Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fix the Jobs Crisis, Then the Deficit
While conservative media obsesses over the deficit and Republicans are knocking down job creation plans left and right, Obama will have to convince the American people that the def...
Jul 7, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
Former Top CIA Spy: How US Intelligence Became Big Business Former Top CIA Spy: How US Intelligence Became Big Business
Intelligence veteran Robert Grenier, who worked covertly in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, recently offered a rare glimpse into the world of privatized intelligence, Blackwa...
Jul 7, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
Two More Candidates for the McChrystal Treatment Two More Candidates for the McChrystal Treatment
At this point, the only way the economy is going to turn around is if Obama's economic hotshots grant professionally damaging interviews to journalists who won't paper over their m...
Jul 7, 2010 / Robert Scheer
Sarah Palin to Run the RNC? Sarah Palin to Run the RNC?
Sarah Palin's capacity to mobilize in spite of her gaffes is what makes her a more dangerous candidate to head the RNC.
Jul 7, 2010 / Press Room