This Week On Tap This Week On Tap
This week, the House considers two financial bills under suspension, HR4332 and HR5519, which would, respectively, create a financial consumer hotline and loosen restrictions on c...
Apr 28, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Bumpy Ride Bumpy Ride
This week's episode: Congresswoman Kang's brother learns more than he wants to know about how deep in the Big Muddy he is.
Apr 28, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas
If California's historic 1950 US Senate race had gone the other way there would have been no Checkers speech, no Watergate break-in, no Woodward and Bernstein, perhaps an earlier ...
Apr 28, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Playing the Race Card in North Carolina Playing the Race Card in North Carolina
The North Carolina Republican Party -- forged by the hand of Dixiecrat segregationists like Jesse ("White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside...
Apr 27, 2008 / John Nichols
The Clintonian Legacy The Clintonian Legacy
Bill Clinton's foreign policy record, on which his wife is running, was anything but stellar.
Apr 27, 2008 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
A Whole New Relationship A Whole New Relationship
This is more than just a new homepage. Our new site offers new ways to mine the richness of America's oldest weekly journal of politics and culture.
Apr 26, 2008 / Joan Connell
Network News in Denial Network News in Denial
Why are the networks stonewalling revelations that their military analysts were actually selling the Pentagon's Iraq War spin?
Apr 25, 2008 / Ari Melber
Things Have Changed Things Have Changed
Notice anything different about this page? The online edition of The Nation just got a makeover. Here's a guide to the changes.
Apr 24, 2008 / Joan Connell
Why Tom Hayden Makes Me Scream Why Tom Hayden Makes Me Scream
Hayden is employing an ancient literary-political device, in which a man wards off charges of sexism by citing the example of a woman.
Apr 24, 2008 / Katha Pollitt
McCain, Hagee and the Politics of God’s Wrath McCain, Hagee and the Politics of God’s Wrath
The whole controversy about John McCain's ties to radical preacher John Hagee has been miscast, both by McCain's critics and supporters – not to mention by our ministerially-obs...
Apr 24, 2008 / John Nichols