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
Cliff’s False Notes Cliff’s False Notes
Who was to blame for Clifford Irving's fake Howard Hughes autobiography? Irving, for sure, but don't forget the publishing industry.
Oct 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Lam Markmann
British-Style Fakery British-Style Fakery
Thomas Chatterton was the balloon boy of eighteenth-century British literary circles.
Oct 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Horace Gregory
Precious Precious
I did another piece on J Street for the IHT. It's called "Voices in the Wilderness" and that's here and then Le Monde Diplomatique asked me to do a podcast and that's her...
Oct 22, 2009 / Eric Alterman
How to Get Out How to Get Out
Elements of a responsible withdrawal.
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
The Best Wall of Defense The Best Wall of Defense
The most dependable guarantor of Pakistani stability isn't a troop buildup in Afghanistan; it's Pakistan's emerging middle class.
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Mosharraf Zaidi