Nation Conversations: Healthcare, AIDS and Africa Nation Conversations: Healthcare, AIDS and Africa
Rep. John Conyers and Rep. Barbara Lee discuss what a progressive policy on world hunger and the spread of HIV would look like.
Aug 25, 2008 / Center For Emerging Media
An Economy that Works for All An Economy that Works for All
As the Democratic party gathers in Denver one issue that should be frontand center is the staggering inequality of our times. And one of the most damning symbols of our New Gilded...
Aug 25, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Just What, Exactly, Is the DNC? Just What, Exactly, Is the DNC?
Coming back from two weeks in the woods to the manic energy of Denver ismaking my head spin, so I'm still adjusting to re-entry. I'll be blogging here at Capitolism for the durati...
Aug 25, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Nation Does Denver The Nation Does Denver
The Nation hosts thought-provoking discussions and events in Denver during the DNC.
Aug 25, 2008 / Feature / The Nation
Gold Medals Can’t Erase China’s Desecration of the Environment Gold Medals Can’t Erase China’s Desecration of the Environment
So the Chinese turned Beijing into a stage set for the Olympics, and the mass media went along with the deceptive reality show. NBC's camera operators kept their lenses so carefull...
Aug 25, 2008 / Frances Cerra Whittelsey
Shiny, Happy People Shiny, Happy People
My hotel in Denver is a block away from the 16th Street Mall--a ruler-straight stretch of Starbucks, Sunglasses Huts and Western-themed souvenir shops selling ceramic bald eagles p...
Aug 25, 2008 / Dave Zirin
Radio Nation with Laura Flanders Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
The Nation's reporter in Georgia talks about being assaulted by Ossetian paramilitaries. Plus: A DNC preview.
Aug 25, 2008 / Radio Nation
Sex and Violence Sex and Violence
This Week: Things get all twisty as Kang makes some moves her own damn self, and her slacker brother contemplates the Big Wave.
Aug 25, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
Olympics Wrap-Up: Marco Polo Would Be Proud Olympics Wrap-Up: Marco Polo Would Be Proud
Not since Marco Polo has anyone traveled so far up China's Silk Roadwith such amoral élan. But there was Jacques Rogge, president of theIOC, knight of the court of ...
Aug 25, 2008 / Dave Zirin
Joe Biden and the Myth of Foreign Policy Experience Joe Biden and the Myth of Foreign Policy Experience
The conventional wisdom is that with a new cold war looming and global conflicts upon us, Barack Obama needed a Vice-President with foreign policy experience. Most establishment ...
Aug 24, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel