Founding Another Colony Founding Another Colony
And the news will have to be tailored to their needs with baffling opinion polls, announcements of the number of steps at the ballerina's dress rehearsal, rarefied shots of Antarctic snow, cascades in the Andes the backwash of shivering butterfly wings no breaks in transmission no voice-overs while regular slots play truant; no controllers in sight and no authorization. You'd think not dying was a la mode. With an almost creepy unconcern they'll form columns and perform exploits beyond every map and outside every schedule. (Translated from the Polish by Rod Mengham)
Nov 24, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Andrzej Sosnowski
Founding a Colony Founding a Colony
Pill boxes, patrols, protocols: this is what made the locals come running, so nothing should be disturbed. Softly, softly, we thought. That graveyard needs moving further south: chop it up among urban allotments, carve out wide boulevards and tunnels, erect viaducts, excavate canals, launch speedboats, ferries, hovercrafts and junk the heritable past; let the map heave with bulldozer silhouettes, he said (lighting a corner of the map) for this shall be our theater of war. And then what? Unlock the fog. At twilight only a boy's quick laugh in a blind back alley shall echo that time shift of desire all lost in space beyond their dreams. (Translated from the Polish by Rod Mengham)
Nov 24, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Andrzej Sosnowski
Robber Barons of the World Unite! Robber Barons of the World Unite!
San Francisco
Nov 24, 2009 / Steve Fraser and T.J. Stiles
Reagan Would Fail “Purity Test” Proposed for GOP Reagan Would Fail “Purity Test” Proposed for GOP
The most rigidly conservatives members of the Republican National Committee are circulating a proposal to establish a purity test for the party's candidates. If adopted, the part...
Nov 24, 2009 / John Nichols
The NFL’s Concussion Conundrum The NFL’s Concussion Conundrum
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell seems to understand that when athletes play with a concussion, it is bad for their health--and for business. But do his reforms go far enough?
Nov 24, 2009 / Column / Dave Zirin
A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer
BEIJING -- Ambassador Yu Qingtai is China's point man on global warming. As special representative to the climate change talks for China's ministry of foreign affairs, Yu is a for...
Nov 24, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
In the Shadow of Hoover In the Shadow of Hoover
Deficit spending is a cure for our troubles, not the cause. If Obama reduces the red ink, the Great Recession could be born again
Nov 23, 2009 / William Greider
The Secret US War in Pakistan The Secret US War in Pakistan
Inside sources reveal that the firm works with the US military in Karachi to plan targeted assassinations and drone bombings, among other sensitive counterterrorism operations.
Nov 23, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
It Isn’t Easy Being Pro-Palin It Isn’t Easy Being Pro-Palin
It's not just the left that can't understand the appeal of Sarah Palin. Even her supporters have hard a time explaining themselves.
Nov 23, 2009 / New Left Media
A Conversation About Cuba and Castro A Conversation About Cuba and Castro
Cuban novelist José Manuel Prieto and Nation contributor Daniel Wilkinson discuss the consequences of his country's revolution.
Nov 23, 2009 / The Nation Video