Iowa Needs Your Help Iowa Needs Your Help
The state of Iowa was the star of this political season for over a year. The Hawkeye state launched Barack Obama's candidacy, derailed Hillary Clinton's and turned Mike Huckabee in...
Jun 14, 2008 / Ari Berman
One Simple Question One Simple Question
It started with one simple question posed by Senator Bernie Sandersto his constituents in an invitation to a town meeting: what does the decline of the middle class mean to you pe...
Jun 14, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tim Russert and the End of No-Talking-Points Journalism Tim Russert and the End of No-Talking-Points Journalism
The passing of Tim Russert leaves us in the midst of an essential election season without the man who had been the steadiest and most serious inquisitor of the powerful during the...
Jun 14, 2008 / John Nichols
Name Our Epoch Name Our Epoch
As John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins write in the current issue of The Nation -- a special look at rising inequality, "Over the past three decades, market-worshiping politicians and...
Jun 13, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Bombing Iran? It’s Not So Bad, Really Bombing Iran? It’s Not So Bad, Really
Patrick Clawson and Michael Eisenstadt, two Iran experts at the pro-Israeli thinktank, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, have published a primer for bombing Iran that...
Jun 13, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Domestic Workers Unite Domestic Workers Unite
Domestic workers in America are among the most economically exploited and vulnerable to abuse by their employers.
Jun 13, 2008 / Feature / Lizzy Ratner
Khalilzad for President? (No, Not Here!) Khalilzad for President? (No, Not Here!)
Wake me up if this is a nightmare, but suddenly the idea that Zalmay Khalilzad might try to become president of Afghanistan is being taken seriously indeed. That a fierce America...
Jun 13, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Students for Hillary, er, McCain (or McKinney) Students for Hillary, er, McCain (or McKinney)
It is no secret that Barack Obama's campaign is on edge about the prospect of losing the support of Democrats who were enthusiastic about the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. A few ...
Jun 13, 2008 / John Nichols
Fathers and Sons Fathers and Sons
A teacher discovers that sixty years after its publication, Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country still stirs deep emotions about fathers and errant sons.
Jun 12, 2008 / Feature / Joseph H. Cooper
Evil Evil
Let's call it what it is:
Reprieve said their client, Binyam Mohamed, had his genitals slashed repeatedly with a doctor's scalpel while in custody in Morocco after he was flown there from Pakistan by American officials in 2002. It also said his U.S. captors later took pictures of the abuse to show authorities that his wounds were healing.
Jun 12, 2008 / Chris Hayes