Obama’s Better Bailout Obama’s Better Bailout
He's off to a good start, but it's up to ordinary people who are hurting in this economy, to make sure Obama bailout benefits them and not the power players.
Jan 28, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
CIW to Crist: End Slavery CIW to Crist: End Slavery
At The Nation we've written a lot about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. The CIW is a worker's organization comprised chiefly of Latino, Haitian and Mayan Indian immigrants who...
Jan 28, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Updike Evaluated: The Writer as Matchmaker Updike Evaluated: The Writer as Matchmaker
One measure of his genius lay in his ability to invoke the hard beauty of a man endlessly wandering the labyrinth of his own needs, abusively fearful of broken spells.
Jan 27, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Josephine Hendin
Lost Your Job? Tell Your Story Lost Your Job? Tell Your Story
To take center stage in the current debate, joblessness must be made real in personal and policy terms. Jobless Americans, tell us what happened--and what you need most.
Jan 27, 2009 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Worth Fighting For Worth Fighting For
This has, all things considered, been a pretty great week for the republic: executive orders increasing government transparency, banning torture, and beginning the process of clos...
Jan 27, 2009 / Chris Hayes
The Politics of Hunger The Politics of Hunger
Oil prices have come down steadily but the global food crisis continues to worsen. What's driving the crisis at home and abroad?
Jan 27, 2009 / GRITtv
Apologies Accepted Apologies Accepted
If this were a real blog, I'd have more crowing to do regarding theTimes' decision to drop William Kristol from its op-ed page. I wrote acolumn about his hiring for the American...
Jan 27, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Scientists Come Out for Human Rights Scientists Come Out for Human Rights
After eight years of being sidelined by the Bush administration, many in notoriously apolitical professions are ready to stand up and be counted on the social and ethical implicati...
Jan 27, 2009 / Feature / Sonia Shah
Conyers Subpoenas Rove Conyers Subpoenas Rove
"Change has come to Washington, and I hope Karl Rove is ready for it," declared House Judiciary Committee chair John Conyers, D-Michigan, on Monday, when he issued a new subpoena ...
Jan 27, 2009 / John Nichols
Purple Heart, Purple Haze Purple Heart, Purple Haze
By honoring the psychological wounds of soldiers--not shaming them--the armed forces might give fighting men and women the respect they deserve.
Jan 26, 2009 / Feature / Simon Maxwell Apter