Olbermann to Cheney: Please Go Away Olbermann to Cheney: Please Go Away
Keith Olbermann offers a thorough point-by-point rebuke of Cheney's recent terrorist fear-mongering.
Feb 6, 2009 / Countdown
Ginsberg Hospitalization Spurs Court Speculation Ginsberg Hospitalization Spurs Court Speculation
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was hospitalized Thursday at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for surgery relating to pancreatic cancer. This is an exceptiona...
Feb 6, 2009 / John Nichols
Slide Show: Week in Review Slide Show: Week in Review
What made news in Washington and the world, from the pages of The Nation magazine and on TheNation.com.
Feb 5, 2009 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Settling Scores With Wall Street Settling Scores With Wall Street
A lot of angry people in America are lusting to bring Wall Street geniuses who engineered the financial collapse to justice. And they just might succeed.
Feb 5, 2009 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Rethink Escalation in Afghanistan Rethink Escalation in Afghanistan
The Obama administration must rethink its Afghanistan policy before committing more troops and money to the area.
Feb 5, 2009 / Brave New Films
Whistling Past the Afghan Graveyard Whistling Past the Afghan Graveyard
It is now a commonplace -- as a lead article in the New York Times's Week in Review pointed out recently -- that Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empires." Given Barack ...
Feb 5, 2009 / TomDispatch
Nuclear Neanderthals vs. Obama’s Common Sense Nuclear Neanderthals vs. Obama’s Common Sense
With George W. Bush back in Texas and President Barack Obama--an advocatefor a nuclear-free world--in the White House, there is reason for hope that the frayed andshredded arms c...
Feb 5, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Hilda Solis Under Fire Hilda Solis Under Fire
Yesterday my friend and colleague Ari Berman sent me a link to an Atlantic post by Marc Ambinder detailing GOP plans to hold up the confirmation of Labor Secretary-designate Hilda...
Feb 5, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Super Bowl Shuffle Super Bowl Shuffle
We've got a new Think Again column herecalled "William Kristol: Journalism's Indispensable Man." Here are a few arguments I've made recently, with the categories onlyimplied, ...
Feb 5, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Protest at UNLV Protest at UNLV
Thousands of students in Nevada are being radicalized due to draconian budget cuts in state education funding.
Feb 5, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation