The Story of a Fixer The Story of a Fixer
A haunting documentary shines a light on the foreign "fixers" who work behind the scenes with reporters to determine how the story of war gets told.
Jul 29, 2009 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Noted. Noted.
Prison-based gerrymandering; a college journalist's big scoop about Bill Clinton; our day in court
Jul 29, 2009 / The Editors
Dire States Dire States
Banks and financial institutions were never "too big to fail." State and local governments are.
Jul 29, 2009 / John Nichols
Doppler Elegy Doppler Elegy
A flowering no one attends The enterprise known variously as waking, April, or Bats are disappearing like color into function. I wanted to open In a new window the eyes of a friend by force if necessary. Amber light is a useless phrase but will have to do what painting did Dense smoke from the burning wells for our parents. Ben there is a man at the door who says I've made small changes he found your notebook throughout in red. The recurring dream contrived in places Of waning significance it resembles the hand after a difficult passage opening, a key word in the early Blue of rippled glass atonal circles. They phased us out across the backward capitals like paper money Or is that two words
Jul 29, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ben Lerner
Policing the Gossip Industry Policing the Gossip Industry
The Nation's editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel clashes with Dan Abrams over the responsibilities of mainstream media.
Jul 29, 2009 / MSNBC
Squeeze Insurance Profiteers, Not Medicare Squeeze Insurance Profiteers, Not Medicare
At a critical moment in the tense health care debate -- when the U.S. House and Senate are scrambling to forge compromise reform plans that might be passed before the Congress emb...
Jul 29, 2009 / John Nichols
Immigrants Sound Off on Honduras Immigrants Sound Off on Honduras
Honduran immigrants in New York City discuss their view of recent events that removed President Manuel Zelaya from office.
Jul 29, 2009 / Joseph Huff-Hannon and Marcos Meconi
William Jennings Bryan William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow may have embarrassed him at the Scopes trial, but William Jennings Bryan will long be remembered as one of the country's greatest progressive crusaders.
Jul 29, 2009 / The Nation
For Hoover For Hoover
Yes, Virginia, this is an endorsement of Herbert Hoover in The Nation.
Jul 29, 2009 / Robert Herrick