Toward Copenhagen Toward Copenhagen
This post, which will appear in condensed form in this week's issue of The Nation, was co-written and researched by Andrea D'Cruz As we approach the Copenhagen UN Climate Chan...
Nov 18, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Affectionate Jousting with Michael Tomasky Affectionate Jousting with Michael Tomasky
My good friend Michael Tomasky has a blog over at The Guardian... I consider it what he called it in his subject line--an "affectionate joust." (Mike is an ace former Na...
Nov 17, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The View from China The View from China
When Yiang Jiemian, president of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, gets together with his brother, Yang Jiechi, China's minister of foreign affairs, they don't ta...
Nov 17, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Congress Can Move Now to Prevent Layoffs, Plant Closings Congress Can Move Now to Prevent Layoffs, Plant Closings
Recognizing the social, economic and political threat posed by double-digit unemployment numbers, and by the prospect that those numbers are continuing to rise, key Democratic sen...
Nov 17, 2009 / John Nichols
Democrats to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan Democrats to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan
The California Democratic Party speaks with an loud voice in national politics. It is, by any reasonable measure, the biggest party in the biggest state in the nation. And it is...
Nov 16, 2009 / John Nichols
Around the Nation Around the Nation
The opportunity to sit down and talk with the remarkable American writers (and Nation Editorial Board members) Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, and Walter Mosley is rare enough one on ...
Nov 15, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Palin: Obama’s “Downright Evil,” But Hillary’s O.K. Palin: Obama’s “Downright Evil,” But Hillary’s O.K.
It is fair to say that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin would rather go vegan than say something nice about President Obama. The 2008 Republican nominee for vice president has,...
Nov 15, 2009 / John Nichols
Slacker Saturday Slacker Saturday
I've got a new Think Again column, which involved quite a bit more work than usual, by the way, called "The Continuing Scandal of Howard Kurtz and The Washington Post," h...
Nov 14, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Palestine in Queens Palestine in Queens
Controversy is growing over a November 21st fundraiser at the New York Mets' new stadium Citi Field for the Brooklyn-based Israeli settlement group the Hebron Fund. Settlement sup...
Nov 13, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
More Deficit Idiocy: Politico Edition More Deficit Idiocy: Politico Edition
The discussion about deficits and debt in Washington is so colossally stupid and disingenuous that even engaging it makes me despair. But today's Politico so expertly packages toge...
Nov 13, 2009 / Chris Hayes