What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers? What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers?
If the boom years failed to lift poor mothers into the middle class, how are they faring now that the middle class is becoming the new poor?
May 13, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Sad Tale of Gordon Brown, Starting With the First Debate The Sad Tale of Gordon Brown, Starting With the First Debate
The man doesn't smile.
May 13, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Noted. Noted.
Spring laurels for The Nation, plus Peter Weiss on Rhonda Copeland, and John Nichols on David Obey.
May 13, 2010 / The Nation
America’s Radical Roots America’s Radical Roots
American radicalism has drawn its inspiration from the nation's revolutionary founding claims. Yet to refer to someone as radical is to risk offense.
May 13, 2010 / Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian
Glenn Beck, America’s Historian Laureate Glenn Beck, America’s Historian Laureate
The Tea Party’s guide to American exceptionalism: It is all about race.
May 13, 2010 / Greg Grandin
Winners and Losers in the UK Election Winners and Losers in the UK Election
For all his faults, I was struck by outgoing British Prime Minster Gordon Brown's resignation speech. It wasn't the pomp of the job he loved, he said, it was the chance to make his...
May 13, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Obama Tries to Strongarm Karzai Obama Tries to Strongarm Karzai
The American policy in Afghanistan is not to negotiate a political deal, but to shoot first and ask questions later. Will President Karzai go along with that strategy? We'll k...
May 13, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Free Elena Kagan! Free Elena Kagan!
After Elena Kagan's first "interview" hits some turbulence, it's clear that ideological hearings would be good for her and the country.
May 13, 2010 / Ari Melber
Nation Associates: In Conversation with Christopher Hayes Nation Associates: In Conversation with Christopher Hayes
Christopher Hayes answers Nation Associates' questions about the gulf oil spill, weapons programs and the seductive draw of expertise.
May 12, 2010 / The Nation
Aug. 5 Aug. 5
Aug. 5 When a man is asked to sing of his anger the risk is that without remorse virtue dies War then is in the face, in this homelessness, the despair which couldn't wait couldn't ask for We don't talk to each other anymore we email global reach managed minutes morning to noon in the hospitals we are all old forbidden to talk of lost sons, asked to smile Enough, they'll hear the news, men in photographs die and nothing will seem simple, their faces especially where sorrow stretched everything Maps point to? and defeat looms where? out there where? Here the naked body is where terror lies Guilt builds monuments, the way we spend our time
May 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eléna Rivera