Karzai Seeks Deal with Taliban Karzai Seeks Deal with Taliban
Next week, Karzai visits Washington. The president of Afghanistan knows that wars end with peace talks. Does the president of the United States know that?
May 6, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obey: Tired of “Begging Blue Dogs To Do What They Ought To Do By Rote” Obey: Tired of “Begging Blue Dogs To Do What They Ought To Do By Rote”
The powerful appropriations committee chair announces he will retire and expresses frustration not just with Republicans but with cautious Democrats.
May 6, 2010 / John Nichols
Los Suns Slam Arizona Law Los Suns Slam Arizona Law
The Nation's sports correspondent, Dave Zirin, appears on Democracy Now! giving a history lesson of protest and sports and the recent news of "Los Suns" protesting Arizon...
May 6, 2010 / Press Room
An Inconvenient Truth: Enlightened Founders Favored Pluralism Not a Law Setting a National Day of Prayer An Inconvenient Truth: Enlightened Founders Favored Pluralism Not a Law Setting a National Day of Prayer
A courageous judge respects the Constitution and the original intentions of the founders when she rejects a "National Day of Prayer" that was legislated in 1952 -- not 17...
May 6, 2010 / John Nichols
Erik Prince Says His Enemies Are al Qaeda, Taliban and ‘Noisy Leftists’ Erik Prince Says His Enemies Are al Qaeda, Taliban and ‘Noisy Leftists’
Blackwater's owner called his critics 'tapeworms' and did his best to sound like a member of the Tea Party.
May 6, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
Airwaves for the People Airwaves for the People
The FCC must ensure Big Telecom cannot manipulate what we can access on the web for their own profits.
May 6, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
There Will Be Blood There Will Be Blood
The BP spill is heartbreaking—but it's only an extreme version of routine accidents and pollution.
May 6, 2010 / The Editors
The Wrath of the Neocon The Wrath of the Neocon
Why does Congressional candidate Rand Paul offend Dick Cheney so?
May 6, 2010 / John Nichols
Noted. Noted.
Deepa Fernandes on the FCC and Net Neutrality, Jon Wiener on Arizona's ban on ethnic studies; Ari Berman on the woman who may be the first African-American Arkansas sends to Congre...
May 6, 2010 / The Editors
Beyond Business as Usual Beyond Business as Usual
We can't simply grow our way out of unemployment.
May 6, 2010 / Juliet Schor