Roger Ailes for President? Er, Maybe Not So Much Roger Ailes for President? Er, Maybe Not So Much
It would be difficult to concoct a Washington fantasy more delicious than this one: Barack Obama declares "war" on Fox News and Fox boss Roger Ailes counters by signaling that he ...
Oct 23, 2009 / John Nichols
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
We've got a new "Think Again" column called "It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's...Cable News," and it's here. My Nation column, about Obama and Fox News and ...
Oct 23, 2009 / Eric Alterman
2009 Nation Student Writing Contest Winners 2009 Nation Student Writing Contest Winners
We're pleased to announce our winners!
Oct 23, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation
The Down Side of Thinking Positive The Down Side of Thinking Positive
Nation contributor Barbara Ehrenreich presents Bright Sided, her new book about the negative aspect of positive thinking.
Oct 23, 2009 / Books & the Arts / GRITtv
The Big Kids Play With Corked Bats The Big Kids Play With Corked Bats
What if campaign finance reform took a page from baseball's playbook?
Oct 23, 2009 / Feature / Helen Rosenthal
A Day of Climate Action A Day of Climate Action
How to rally a global climate movement? That's the question the heros at 350.org take up in this video highlighting the 4,641 global actions currently planned for tomorrow, Saturd...
Oct 23, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
‘Going Rogue’ vs. ‘Going Rouge’ ‘Going Rogue’ vs. ‘Going Rouge’
Keith Olbermann weighs in on the Sarah Palin "companion" book Going Rouge, edited by Nation staffers Betsy Reed and Richard Kim.
Oct 23, 2009 / Countdown
NoEscalation.org NoEscalation.org
President Obama will soon make what could be the defining decision of his presidency. The course he chooses in Afghanistan will tell us a lot about the kind of country we will beco...
Oct 23, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Judge Refuses to Dismiss War Crimes Case Against Blackwater Judge Refuses to Dismiss War Crimes Case Against Blackwater
A federal judge sends the lawyers for Iraqi victims of Blackwater back to the drawing board, while rejecting Blackwater's plea to toss out the case.
Oct 22, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
The Paranoid Style at Pacifica The Paranoid Style at Pacifica
In his Wall Street Journal column yesterday, Tom Frank paid homage to Richard Hofstadter's famous essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." As Frank noted, Birth...
Oct 22, 2009 / Eyal Press