Letter From Haiti: Life in the Ruins Letter From Haiti: Life in the Ruins
Three years after the earthquake, 350,000 are still living in refugee camps, while millions in aid money is lavished on a tourist hotel.
Jan 9, 2013 / Feature / Amy Wilentz
Want Pentagon Cuts? Make Barney Frank a Senator Want Pentagon Cuts? Make Barney Frank a Senator
The former congressman, who wants an interim appointment to the Senate, says the Department of Defense “could get by with a lot less.”
Jan 9, 2013 / John Nichols
Hooray for Hagel Hooray for Hagel
Rarely has the McCarthyite smear of “anti-Semitism” been revealed to be so empty as in the case of Obama’s DoD nominee.
Jan 9, 2013 / Column / Eric Alterman
No Man Is an Island: Fiction, Trauma, War No Man Is an Island: Fiction, Trauma, War
How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.
Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Blitzer
Will Chuck Hagel’s Appointment Actually Help the Anti-War Left? Will Chuck Hagel’s Appointment Actually Help the Anti-War Left?
The man Obama recently nominated for Secretary of Defense could alter the trajectory of the president’as center-right military policy.
Jan 8, 2013 / Phyllis Bennis
The American System of Suffering, 1965–2014 The American System of Suffering, 1965–2014
When we will begin to learn the real lessons of Vietnam?
Jan 8, 2013 / Nick Turse
Stephen Cohen: As Obama Starts Second Term, His Russian ‘Reset’ Is Dead Stephen Cohen: As Obama Starts Second Term, His Russian ‘Reset’ Is Dead
The latest political row over the Magnitsky Act merely continues America's failure to engage with Russia under Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and now Barack Obama.
Jan 7, 2013 / Press Room
When the Great Judgment Call Came, Hagel Handed Bush a Blank Check When the Great Judgment Call Came, Hagel Handed Bush a Blank Check
Arguments will be made for Obama’s Defense pick. But Hagel’s vote to authorize Bush and Cheney to attack Iraq should raise eyebrows—and questions.
Jan 7, 2013 / John Nichols
Idle No More’s Hunger for Justice Idle No More’s Hunger for Justice
Idle No More has sparked international solidarity. What can that mean for Native rights in the US?
Jan 7, 2013 / Aura Bogado
Labor Groups Pan Walmart Plan to Bring Oversight Approach Used in Bangladesh to the US Labor Groups Pan Walmart Plan to Bring Oversight Approach Used in Bangladesh to the US
A labor official says the kind of auditing Walmart wants to bring to its US warehouses “led directly to the deaths of 112 people in Bangladesh.”
Jan 4, 2013 / Josh Eidelson