Radio Nation with Laura Flanders Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
This week, Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel reflects on the role of independent media in turbulent political waters.
May 27, 2008 / Radio Nation
Memorializing Memorializing
Hope everyone enjoyed the Memorial Day Weekend. I took a long walk down the entire length of the Mall yesterday and it was deeply affecting: Vietnam veterans and their families cl...
May 27, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Generation Progressive Generation Progressive
A recent report shows that young people favor universal health care, strong labor unions, and economic equality.
May 27, 2008 / The Nation
How the Pentagon Engulfed the World How the Pentagon Engulfed the World
Here are words to pin to the Bush years like a wilting corsage: "We don't know what we paid for." That's a quote from Mary Ugone, the Defense Department's deputy inspec...
May 27, 2008 / TomDispatch
Passing Through the Middle East Passing Through the Middle East
An American student chronicles her travels--and her fluid identity--as she visits the Middle East.
May 27, 2008 / The Nation
Obama v.Recount, Democracy v. Thugocracy Obama v.Recount, Democracy v. Thugocracy
This Memorial Day Sunday, Barack Obama did what he described as "pinch-hitting" for one of his personal heroes, Senator Edward Kennedy. From many accounts, Obama's commencement ad...
May 26, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tiny Soap Bubbles Tiny Soap Bubbles
This Week: Kang and Valdez explore each other's bodies and minds, and somebody gets a gun slapped upside their head.
May 26, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
Mixed Blessing Mixed Blessing
Obama calls for direct dialogue and new trade deals with Latin America, but continued counterinsurgency in Columbia, tensions with Venezuela.
May 25, 2008 / Feature / Tom Hayden
McCain Rejects Another Hate-Preaching Pastor McCain Rejects Another Hate-Preaching Pastor
The last days of May will be remembered as the time of the long knives in John McCain's camp, a period that saw the presumptive Republican candidate for president purge his crusad...
May 23, 2008 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory: Coalition for Immokalee Workers Wins Sweet Victory: Coalition for Immokalee Workers Wins
In March 2005, I started a weekly feature called "Sweet Victories." Theidea was to chronicle progressive victories --electoral wins, protestsand boycotts, the launching of new i...
May 23, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel