Articles

Whiner-in-Chief Whiner-in-Chief

The Obama administration really needs to get over itself. First, the president and his aides go to war with Fox News because the network maintains a generally anti-Obama slant. ...

Oct 12, 2009 / John Nichols

It Costs Money to Die It Costs Money to Die

Forty-five years before Jessica Mitford's exposè of the funeral industry, Paul Blanshard found out just how expensive dying can be.

Oct 12, 2009 / Paul Blanshard

Opting Out Opting Out

Jack Kevorkian is leading the movement to allow people to take death in their own hands.

Oct 12, 2009 / Frank A. Oski

Feingold: Need an Afghan ‘Timetable’ Feingold: Need an Afghan ‘Timetable’

For a forthcoming (later this week) article on Afghanistan for Rolling Stone, I interviewed Senator Russ Feingold, one of the few members of the Senate who's been willing to speak...

Oct 12, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss

New White House Line Against Fox: It’s War New White House Line Against Fox: It’s War

The White House's battle with Fox News reached a new high on Sunday, when Communications Director Anita Dunn went on national television to blast Fox as a partisan organization tha...

Oct 12, 2009 / Ari Melber

The Burden & The Nobel The Burden & The Nobel

The choice has always been, as a former chair of the Nobel Peace Prize judging committee explained in 2001, " a political act." This year it was also an ingenious leap of...

Oct 11, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Around The Nation Around The Nation

Last Spring, Sebastian Jones was fact-checking in The Nation's modest Capitol Hill office as our DC intern, keeping track of the excitement (and corruption) in Congress. Like a sea...

Oct 11, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Berlin Postcard Berlin Postcard

Saturday, October 3, was Reunification Day, the anniversary of the formal reuniting of East and West Germany in 1990.

 

Oct 10, 2009 / Katha Pollitt

Obama’s Campaign Merits a Peace Prize Obama’s Campaign Merits a Peace Prize

Readers who have followed this writer's commentaries on the political machinations of the 44th president are by now well aware that I never quite bought into the whole Barack Obam...

Oct 10, 2009 / John Nichols

Did Obama Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? Did Obama Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?

My reaction to Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize elicited some decidedly "un-peaceful" responses from my friends and followers on social networking and blog sites. As r...

Oct 10, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry

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