Jeremy Scahill on Democracy Now: The Blackwater Indictment Jeremy Scahill on Democracy Now: The Blackwater Indictment
Five Blackwater security guards are charged for their role in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad, Nation contributor Jeremy Scahill weighs in.
Dec 9, 2008 / Press Room
Greece in Flames, Again Greece in Flames, Again
The police shooting of a boy has unleashed riots and seething resentment in Greece among young people lost in the economic downturn and a society betrayed by a corrupt and incompet...
Dec 9, 2008 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
Helping Workers Now Helping Workers Now
This dispatch comes from Nation reporter Gregory Kaufmann: Two new reports from the Center of American Progress (CAP) suggest that there is much the Obama Administration can do t...
Dec 9, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Governor Gone Wild: Blagojevich Busted Governor Gone Wild: Blagojevich Busted
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a scandal-plagued Democrat who among other things was preparing to appoint a senatorial successor to President-elect Barack Obama, was arrested ...
Dec 9, 2008 / John Nichols
Iraq Interrogator: ‘I Never Saw Coercive Methods Pay Off’ Iraq Interrogator: ‘I Never Saw Coercive Methods Pay Off’
Matthew Alexander, an Air Force vet and interrogator based in Iraq, tells Jon Stewart he's "never seen coercive methods pay off."
Dec 9, 2008 / The Daily Show
To Spend or Not to Spend? To Spend or Not to Spend?
One day after the government reported the worst hemorrhaging of jobs in a month since 1974 -- with 533,000 jobs lost in November -- President-elect Barack Obama revealed aspects o...
Dec 9, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Justice, of a Sort, for Blackwater Justice, of a Sort, for Blackwater
Federal charges are filed against Blackwater guards accused of killing and maiming Iraqi civilians. But the company continues to operate in Iraq and its executives escape scrutiny.
Dec 8, 2008 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Psycho Psycho
Janet Leigh says she hasn't taken a shower since, but the notion of motherhood took a bath.
Dec 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Reds Reds
Warren Beatty's epic about the life and death of American radical journalist John Reed.
Dec 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Midnight Cowboy Midnight Cowboy
Fred Neil's haunting song, "Everybody's Talkin'" sets the mood for this tragic buddy movie.
Dec 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch