RNC Embraces Restraint, But Not the Fiscal Kind RNC Embraces Restraint, But Not the Fiscal Kind
Republican National Committee pays to be "transported to a world of risque sexuality and eroticism."
Mar 30, 2010 / John Nichols
India Grapples with Freedom India Grapples with Freedom
This essay, from the August 23, 1947, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on I...
Lolita Lolita
Once he has swallowed the disappointment of discovering that Lolita in the movie is pushing hard on the age of consent, the libidinous critic must decide what if anything he can ...
Mar 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
The Catch The Catch
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a ratio...
Mar 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nelson Algren
Tehran’s Coup in Iraq? Tehran’s Coup in Iraq?
Iran is using its muscle to sway the formation of the next government in Iraq, and there's not much the United States can do about it.
Mar 29, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Brittney Griner: Your March Madness MVP Brittney Griner: Your March Madness MVP
A 6’ 8” freshman is changing the way we understand hoops in the NCAA tournament and you’d never know it. Maybe it’s because she's not a fresh-MAN at all
Mar 29, 2010 / Dave Zirin
Modern Slavery Modern Slavery
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Modern-Day Slavery Museum is traveling throughout Florida to drive home the point that slavery persists in the agriculture fields of the state r...
Mar 28, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Progressives and the ‘Bitter’ White Nation Progressives and the ‘Bitter’ White Nation
Progressives can dismantle a centuries-old tool of oppression: pitting working-class whites against people of color. But we're missing the chance.
Mar 28, 2010 / Kai Wright
Socialism? Not Quite, Say the Socialists Socialism? Not Quite, Say the Socialists
"I know they call Obama's plan 'socialist.' But if the point is to make sure everyone has health care and that costs are kept down, Socialists really could have come up with s...
Mar 27, 2010 / John Nichols