Slide Show: Waltz With Bashir Slide Show: Waltz With Bashir
Images from the graphic novel about the 1982 Lebanon War.
Feb 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
The Recession Bowl The Recession Bowl
In America's first hard-times Super Bowl, superb athletes and a thrillingly played game rose to the challenge. Maybe the country can, too.
Feb 2, 2009 / Column / Dave Zirin
Sunnis, Nationalists Make Gains in Iraq Sunnis, Nationalists Make Gains in Iraq
Preliminary, mostly leaked, results from the elections in Iraq suggest a tectonic shift away from ultrareligious Shiite parties and separatist Kurds, with nationalists, secular pa...
Feb 2, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Daschle Must Go (UPDATED) Daschle Must Go (UPDATED)
UPDATE: Sunday night, I urged President Barack Obama to withdraw former SenatorTom Daschle's nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services inorder to "revive the change br...
Feb 1, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Jazz Singer The Jazz Singer
Hollywood's first talking film marked the beginning of the end for some of cinema's biggest stars, but it did preserve the talent of Al Jolson on celluloid.
Feb 1, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Bakshy
Calculations Could Add GOP Senator to Cabinet Calculations Could Add GOP Senator to Cabinet
With speculation running rampant that New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg could be plucked from the Senate by President Obama and nominated to serve as Commerce Secretary, we retu...
Feb 1, 2009 / John Nichols
What Happened in Congress This Week What Happened in Congress This Week
From correspondent Greg Kaufmann a look back at last week on the Hill: Here are the big items this week: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that reverses the terrible anti-equal pa...
Jan 31, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Obama’s Security Priorities Obama’s Security Priorities
He has significantly pivoted US policy on torture. But where the president stands on warrantless wiretapping should give progressives some cause for concern.
Dirty Trickster Steele Is New RNC Chair Dirty Trickster Steele Is New RNC Chair
When Michael Steele ran for Maryland's open US Senate in 2006, his backers hired 300 mostly poor African Americans from Philadelphia -- most if not all of them unemployed, many of...
Jan 30, 2009 / John Nichols
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
First things first, we have a new Think Again column here called "Spying on Journalists? Why the Silence?" and a new Nation column called "The Defamation League," here, which add...
Jan 30, 2009 / Eric Alterman