The Illusory Middle The Illusory Middle
Undecided voters don't care about left or right: they simply want a candidate they can trust. As he shifts to the center, Obama risks losing his greatest asset--authenticity.
Aug 26, 2008 / Victor Navasky
What’s Changed? What’s Changed?
Having just done some TV, and several radio interviews yesterday, I fear my reporting to opining ratio is perilously close to falling under the 1:1 threshold. (Keep this in mind ...
Aug 26, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Maliki the Nationalist? Maliki the Nationalist?
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki continues to make headlines by posing as an Iraqi nationalist. Don't buy it. Unfortunately, much of the media has swallowed Maliki's posturi...
Aug 26, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
In the Presence of Darwish In the Presence of Darwish
A tribute to the premier Arab poet of the past half-century.
Aug 26, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon
They Got the Memo They Got the Memo
There's a dizzying array of panels, plenaries, protests and parties this week in Denver as 4,000 delegates, 15,000 members of the media and thousands of additional political touri...
Aug 26, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
In Search of the Elusive PUMAs In Search of the Elusive PUMAs
Monday, August 25 Good Omen: the people sitting in front of me on the plane read The Nation! Anna and Russ from Washington DC are coming to the convention as tourists. Apparentl...
Aug 26, 2008 / Katha Pollitt
Michelle Obama’s Elegant Remarks Michelle Obama’s Elegant Remarks
DENVER -- Asking the wife of a candidate for president to address the national convention at which her husband is to be nominated is a relatively recent phenomenon. And the histo...
Aug 26, 2008 / John Nichols
Teddy! Teddy! Teddy! Teddy! Teddy! Teddy!
Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Democratic party, the hero of a dozen Democratic national conventions, took the stage at one more gathering of the fa...
Aug 26, 2008 / John Nichols
Dissent in Denver Dissent in Denver
If Barack Obama is promishing change from the bottom up, then what's driving the protests in Denver?
Aug 26, 2008 / The Nation Video and Brett Story
The First Ever Muslim Democratic Caucus The First Ever Muslim Democratic Caucus
The last seven years have been strange ones for American Muslims in politics. That much was evident at this morning's first ever Muslim Democratic Caucus meeting. Aftab Siddiqui, ...
Aug 26, 2008 / Chris Hayes