The Obama Budget: Fixing Foundations or Shifting Furniture? The Obama Budget: Fixing Foundations or Shifting Furniture?
While the Obamas were in Europe the House and Senate approved the president's $3 trillion budget. But the battle isn't over. What will be cut and what will remain?
Apr 8, 2009 / GRITtv
Debunking Cheney Debunking Cheney
Dick Cheney's insistence that President Obama has made America less safe by defining waterboarding as torture and making CIA interrogators abide by the US Army Field Manual has pro...
Apr 8, 2009 / Eyal Press
Meltdown: Resistance and the Recession Meltdown: Resistance and the Recession
Labor activist and Nation contributor Bill Fletcher, Jr. reclaims socialism and presses for a politicized grassroots movement to pressure economic changes.
Apr 8, 2009 / The Nation Video
Get Rid of Bush’s Last-Minute HHS Regulation Get Rid of Bush’s Last-Minute HHS Regulation
Thursday, April 9th, is the deadline for comments on the proposed rescission of the Bush administration's last-minute HHS regulation expanding provider "conscience" clauses...
Apr 8, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Summers: Living Large and in Charge Summers: Living Large and in Charge
Larry Summers earned $8 million from Wall Street last year. Doesn't anyone in Congress care about the conflict?
Apr 8, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Trustbusting 2.0? Trustbusting 2.0?
As a friend of mine said to me last week, it seems the economic team advising Obama has an unfortunately limited imagination. This limitedimagination leads to a limited range of ki...
Apr 7, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout
D-Day: The Beginning of the End D-Day: The Beginning of the End
June 6, 1944: the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.
Apr 7, 2009 / Feature / The Nation
Fujimori: Guilty as Charged Fujimori: Guilty as Charged
Peru's disgraced former president becomes the first democratically elected head of state to be extradited, tried and convicted of human rights crimes.
Apr 7, 2009 / Feature / Peter Kornbluh
Playing Politics With Justice Playing Politics With Justice
Gerald Ford hands Richard Nixon his get-out-of-jail free card.
Apr 7, 2009 / Feature / Jerome R. Waldie
A New Way Forward A New Way Forward
What seems most immediately alarming about the bailouts and the $787 billion stimulus, write Leo Hindery and Donald Riegle in the April 20 issue of The Nation, are the countless i...
Apr 7, 2009 / Peter Rothberg