US Funds the Taliban, II US Funds the Taliban, II
A Congressional investigation confirms what The Nation reported: US taxpayer funds are paying off Afghan warlords.
Jun 24, 2010 / Aram Roston
Noted. Noted.
Robert Dreyfuss on McChrystal's firing, John Nichols on McCaskill's push for transparency and David Cole on the Supreme Court ruling on material support to terrorist organizations
Jun 24, 2010 / The Editors
Bloody Sunday’s Architects Bloody Sunday’s Architects
Lord Saville's Bloody Sunday report clarifies who shot whom. But the darker truth about the role of Britain's secret service is unexplained.
Jun 24, 2010 / Peter Pringle
Who Will Pay to Fix Louisiana? Who Will Pay to Fix Louisiana?
Devastation wrought by the BP spill is in headlines daily. But decades of oil drilling in Louisiana have done far more indelible damage.
Jun 24, 2010 / Feature / Oliver Houck
A Hole in the World A Hole in the World
The BP disaster reveals the risks in imagining that we have complete command over nature.
Jun 24, 2010 / Feature / Naomi Klein
BP BP
(Sung by Representative Joe Barton, to the tune of "Blue Moon") BP, you've been so badly defamed— By shakedown artists so robbed, by petty bureaucrats blamed. BP, I'm sorry they've been so strict on These damages. You've been picked on, Without a case to convict on. But pay no mind to all these overreactions, For memories of this one more spill Will fade, like all your other infractions, And once again we'll shout, "Drill, baby, drill!" BP, you've been so badly defamed, The public's been so inflamed. BP, I'm truly ashamed.
Jun 24, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
America Is Detached From the War America Is Detached From the War
Bush's plotless dream, smoking drones and other strange tales from the crypt.
Jun 24, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt
US Hikers Seized by Iranian Police in Iraqi Territory US Hikers Seized by Iranian Police in Iraqi Territory
Senior Editor Richard Kim appears CNN to explain The Nation's breaking revelation that three American hikers detained by the Iranian military almost a year ago were unlawfully ca...
Jun 24, 2010 / Press Room
Of Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Blackwater (UPDATED) Of Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Blackwater (UPDATED)
There's no doubt, McChrystal was rightly relieved of his duties. But in the end, it was his words--not his actions--that sunk his ship. Blackwater's ship of misconduct, crime and m...
Jun 24, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
Reconsidering Deep-Sea Oil Drilling Reconsidering Deep-Sea Oil Drilling
America isn't the only country reassessing their deep-sea oil drilling. The Nation's Michael Klare speaks to Jeb Sharp of PRI's The World about the globe's major oil reserves and w...
Jun 24, 2010 / The World