California Budget Blues California Budget Blues
If Citigroup is too big to fail, isn't the state of California? How the national economy can snap back to health if the federal government refuses to help?
May 27, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Remembering Amos Elon Remembering Amos Elon
The world of letters lost an inimitable voice on Monday, when the journalist and historian Amos Elon died in Italy, at the age of eighty-two. For decades, Elon's stylish essays gr...
May 27, 2009 / Eyal Press
Celebrating Sotomayor and Mourning Prop 8 Celebrating Sotomayor and Mourning Prop 8
Tuesday was an emotional day for the left. In the morning President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. It was welcome news for those ...
May 27, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry
The Silence of MoveOn The Silence of MoveOn
MoveOn, once the most powerful grassroots peace organization, has rendered its members voiceless on the expanding wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And that silence sends a message...
May 26, 2009 / Feature / Tom Hayden
The Nation/Campus Progress Youth Journalism Conference The Nation/Campus Progress Youth Journalism Conference
A roster of terrific journalists will be on hand on July 9 in DC.
May 26, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation
Steve Earle’s Labor of Love Steve Earle’s Labor of Love
The music on Townes, Steve Earle's tribute to Townes Van Zandt, is simple and literally homespun. There is sinew to this music, and blood in the words.
May 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles P. Pierce
Chop Shops Chop Shops
Over a decade ago, in his novel The Ax, Donald E. Westlake captured the ruthlessness and anomie of economic Darwinism.
May 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
California Supreme Court Upholds Prop 8 California Supreme Court Upholds Prop 8
As expected the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8 by a vote of 6-1. It also ruled that the 18,000 same-sex couples who got married last year are still married. It's a l...
May 26, 2009 / Richard Kim
The Greatest Swindle Ever Sold The Greatest Swindle Ever Sold
How the financial bailout scams taxpayers, subsidizes Wall Street and props up our broken financial system.
May 26, 2009 / Feature / Andy Kroll
Supporting Sotomayor Supporting Sotomayor
The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter as Supreme Court Justice is a nice reminder of the type of change that the Obama administration does represent. Though no...
May 26, 2009 / Peter Rothberg