A Blow to Privatization in Israel (and Perhaps Beyond) A Blow to Privatization in Israel (and Perhaps Beyond)
In an opinion rightly hailed as a "bombshell" in Haaretz, Israeli Supreme Court President Dorit Benisch did not deny that privatizing prisons might potentially save mone...
Nov 23, 2009 / Eyal Press
Shareholders Alone Can’t Correct ‘Too Big to Fail’ Shareholders Alone Can’t Correct ‘Too Big to Fail’
At major US banks, shareholders actually want their executives to be rewarded for taking on excessive risk.
Nov 23, 2009 / Feature / Zach Carter
Can China Help on Afghanistan? Can China Help on Afghanistan?
BEIJING--During President Obama's recent visit to China, he got some advice on Afghanistan from Chinese government officials – and an offer of Chinese assistance toward a negoti...
Nov 23, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Around the Nation Around the Nation
In his contribution to Going Rouge: An American Nightmare, The Nation's Washington, D.C. Editor, Chris Hayes, quotes a joke from a friend in publishing: In the future the Internet ...
Nov 22, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Health Care Bill Advances, as Harry Reid Trumps Sarah Palin Health Care Bill Advances, as Harry Reid Trumps Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin may have the headlines. But Harry Reid has a health-care reform bill, and it is advancing. Indeed, with Saturday night's 60-39 Senate vote to open a historic debate o...
Nov 21, 2009 / John Nichols
Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan
Bill Moyers, who was at the side of President Lyndon Johnson at the time when disastrous decisions were being made to escalate the U.S. presence in the quagmire that was Vietnam, ...
Nov 21, 2009 / John Nichols
Palin as the Church Lady Palin as the Church Lady
You gotta give Sarah Palin's book tour credit for one thing: It's really putting the passive-aggressive instincts of the religious right on public display. And not just because sh...
Nov 20, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Journalism in 10: Ana Marie Cox on the Future of Media Journalism in 10: Ana Marie Cox on the Future of Media
Ana Marie Cox reflects on her experiences during the 2008 presidential election and suggests that we might see an influx of reporters that are hired by specific candidates to do op...
Nov 20, 2009 / The Nation Video
Man Made Disaster in New Orleans Man Made Disaster in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina is often called a natural disaster, as if it was all nature's fault, not man's. The reality, of course, is that federal, state and local governments ignored warni...
Nov 20, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
My new Think Again column, called "History Isn't a Dirty Word," about the incredible amnesia shown by the MSM regarding the Bush presidency is here; my new Nation column,...
Nov 20, 2009 / Eric Alterman