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
Friday Capitol Letter Friday Capitol Letter
In the House…. On Wednesday, the House passed a $54-billion tax package that expands individual and business tax credits and creates $17 billion in renewable energy incentives. ...
May 23, 2008 / Chris Hayes