What Really Happened to Welfare What Really Happened to Welfare
If there was ever a time for a serious "conspiracy" on behalf of the poor, this is it.
Apr 16, 2010 / Feature / Author and Barbara Ehrenreich
The Mad Tea Party The Mad Tea Party
How Glenn Beck & Co. trumped up a vast left-wing conspiracy: the "Cloward-Piven strategy."
Apr 15, 2010 / Feature / Richard Kim
In Defense of Hamid Karzai In Defense of Hamid Karzai
Redeeming our faltering ally.
Apr 15, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Noted. Noted.
David Cole on Dawn Johnsen, Greg Kaufmann on Stephen Friedman's windfall profits and Clarissa A. León on Islam Siddiqui, "pesticide pusher"
Apr 15, 2010 / David Cole, John Nichols, Greg Kaufmann, and Clarissa A. León
Slide Show: Who Will Be Obama’s Next Supreme Court Nominee? Slide Show: Who Will Be Obama’s Next Supreme Court Nominee?
Justice John Paul Stevens, nearing 90, confirmed recently that he will retire from the Supreme Court this summer. He "concluded that it would be in the best interests of the C…
Apr 15, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Letter From Berlin Letter From Berlin
Germany has problems--but on healthcare and gun control, it's way ahead of the States.
Apr 15, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Black by Choice Black by Choice
The first black president has created a definitional crisis for whiteness.
Apr 15, 2010 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry
License to Kill? License to Kill?
After 9/11, it's less controversial to kill a suspect in cold blood than to hold him in preventive detention.
Apr 15, 2010 / David Cole
Earth to Congress Earth to Congress
The current climate change legislation threatens to do more harm than good.
Apr 15, 2010 / The Editors
Living at the ‘Tip of the Spear’ Living at the ‘Tip of the Spear’
The US military's plans would devastate Guam's environment. Its citizens are fighting back.
Apr 15, 2010 / Feature / Koohan Paik