Prelude to a Murder Prelude to a Murder
The government's campaign to get Fred Hampton began long before it finally succeeded in killing him.
Nov 30, 2009 / Feature / L.F. Palmer, Jr.
Day of Action on Climate Crisis Day of Action on Climate Crisis
As world leaders start gathering next week in Copenhagen, the people hit hardest by the climate change crisis -- the global poor -- will continue to be systematically excluded from...
Nov 30, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Tony Kushner on Climate Change Tony Kushner on Climate Change
Kushner speculates on why it's so hard as an artist to write meaningfully about climate change--and why policy change has come so slowly.
Nov 30, 2009 / The Nation Video
Ten Years After Battle of Seattle: Another World Is Necessary Ten Years After Battle of Seattle: Another World Is Necessary
Tens years to the day after "The Battle of Seattle" opened a new front in the epic struggle over global economic policy, one of the activists who took to the streets with the the ...
Nov 30, 2009 / John Nichols
Feint to Exit? Feint to Exit?
What's tragic about President Obama's decision to dispatch tens of thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan is that even the president knows, I am sure, that escalation won't...
Nov 30, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Military Escalation Will Harm Afghan People, US Interests Military Escalation Will Harm Afghan People, US Interests
"I know that Obama's election has brought great hopes to peace-loving people in the United States. But for Afghans, Obama's military buildup will only bring more suffering and dea...
Nov 29, 2009 / John Nichols
Around the Nation Around the Nation
Jeremy Scahill's important investigation into how Blackwater is working in Pakistan for the US military's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) made waves all over the world. Fro...
Nov 29, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sanders Stands on Principle: No Reform w/out Public Option Sanders Stands on Principle: No Reform w/out Public Option
If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to get the 60 votes he will need to break a Republican filibuster and pass a health care reform bill, he's going to have to include a ro...
Nov 27, 2009 / John Nichols
Another Helping of FDR Please Another Helping of FDR Please
President Obama has produced a credible, if not exactly inspired Thanksgiving Proclamation. Most of the statement relies on the usual boilerplate language employed by our recent ...
Nov 26, 2009 / John Nichols