Coakley DID Define Herself. More’s the Pity. Coakley DID Define Herself. More’s the Pity.
I hate to nit-pick, but is it possible that Martha Coakley lost her bid to become Senator of Massachusetts not because people knew her too little but because they just might have k...
Jan 22, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Petraeus Gets It Wrong Petraeus Gets It Wrong
Yesterday, I had a chance to question General David Petraeus about President Obama's Afghan timetable, and what he had to say leads one to suspect that if Petraeus, McChrystal, and...
Jan 22, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Conan O’Brien for Treasury Secretary Conan O’Brien for Treasury Secretary
As the Democrats hysterically reel away from heath care reform in the wake of Scott ("My daughters are available") Brown's win in Massachusetts, I'd like to suggest the s...
Jan 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Leslie Savan
NFL Wants to Go Steady–With Reebok NFL Wants to Go Steady–With Reebok
The Supreme Court will soon tell the NFL whether it can knock out competition by cutting deals as a single entity.
Jan 21, 2010 / Column / Dave Zirin and Jeremiah Tittle
Slacker Thursday Slacker Thursday
10 Things I Hate About You and the implications of Massachusetts.
Jan 21, 2010 / Eric Alterman
Teddy Roosevelt Was Right: Ban ALL Corporate Contributions Teddy Roosevelt Was Right: Ban ALL Corporate Contributions
What to do about the decision by U.S. Supreme Court to -- in the words of Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold -- "(ignore) important principles of judicial restraint and respect f...
Jan 21, 2010 / John Nichols
Obama and the Long View Obama and the Long View
Confident in the long-term impact of his policy decisions, Obama rarely gets flustered by short-term shifts in political fortune.
Jan 21, 2010 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Taking on the Banksters Taking on the Banksters
As I've written previously, The Nation is a community defined by spirited--often fractious--debate. But when it comes to what we'retaking away from the Democratic lo...
Jan 21, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Covering Haiti: When the Media Is the Disaster Covering Haiti: When the Media Is the Disaster
It's time to banish the word "looting" from the media vocabulary in times of disaster.
Jan 21, 2010 / Feature / Rebecca Solnit
The Love We Lost The Love We Lost
Like the terrorist, the sex offender is a new category of human being.
Jan 21, 2010 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski