Video: Blackwater’s Youngest Victim Video: Blackwater’s Youngest Victim
On September 16, 2007, Blackwater employees killed at least 14 Iraqis in the infamous Nisour Square massacre. The youngest victim was nine-year-old Ali Kinani. In this exclusive in...
Feb 1, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
Slacker Sunday Slacker Sunday
The State of the Union and the State of the Media.
Feb 1, 2010 / Eric Alterman
Around The Nation Around The Nation
Hopefully everyone had a chance to read what Jeremy Scahill calls the saddest and most moving story he's ever written: his interview with Mohammed Kinani, father of the younge...
Feb 1, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Insulting China Insulting China
Just like Hong Kong, soon enough Taiwan -- the so-called Republic of China -- will be absorbed into China proper. It's a goner. The sheer force of China's gravitational pull will d...
Feb 1, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Say No to CBS’s Anti-Choice Super Bowl Ad Say No to CBS’s Anti-Choice Super Bowl Ad
The broadcast networks that air the Super Bowl have historically rejected advocacy ads. Yet CBS, which is airing the Super Bowl this year, has accepted an anti-choice ad by the ult...
Jan 31, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Dave Zirin
Journalism in 10: Students on the Future of Media Journalism in 10: Students on the Future of Media
Student journalists at The Nation and Campus Progress's Annual Student Journalism Conference talk how news media will be produced, consumed and funded in the next five to ten years...
Jan 31, 2010 / The Nation Video
Calling Out “Not True” Alito Calling Out “Not True” Alito
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he said he would not bring a political agenda to the high court, became the unexpected "sta...
Jan 30, 2010 / John Nichols
The Obama I Remember The Obama I Remember
Watching Barack Obama become President of the United States made me proud and hopeful, but I also found the experience somewhat amusing. I think many of us who were his Hyde Park n...
Jan 30, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry
‘New Haiti,’ Same Corporate Interests ‘New Haiti,’ Same Corporate Interests
Foreign ministers in the "Friends of Haiti" want to "build a new Haiti." But what will their neoliberal agenda mean for ordinary Haitians?
Jan 29, 2010 / Feature / Isabel Macdonald
Prankly, My Dear, They Don’t Give a Damn Prankly, My Dear, They Don’t Give a Damn
You know how you can tell the Age of Reagan has ended? Because at his State of the Union address, Barack Obama didn't do any of those ordinary-folks-who-make-a-difference shout-out...
Jan 29, 2010 / Leslie Savan