Investigating the Mortgage Crisis Investigating the Mortgage Crisis
In a press release last week, Chairman Edolphus Towns of the House Committee for Oversight and Government Reform announced a major investigation "into whether mortgage compani...
Oct 28, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Warrior-Diplomat Asks of Afghan War: “Why and to What End?” Warrior-Diplomat Asks of Afghan War: “Why and to What End?”
About the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan -- not merely the proposal to surge more troops into the quagmire but the occupation itself -- he says: "I want people in Iowa, people in ...
Oct 28, 2009 / John Nichols
Playing God with Khristian Oliver Playing God with Khristian Oliver
This post was written by Nation intern and freelance writer Andrea D'Cruz. Ten years ago Khristian Oliver was convicted of murder: during a burglary in March of 1998, Joe Collins...
Oct 27, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
The Iraqi Time Bomb The Iraqi Time Bomb
More and more, it seems that the Obama administration has utterly forgotten about Iraq. With its laser-like focus on Afghanistan and its diplomacy with Iran, it's rare that Iraq g...
Oct 27, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Public Option Lives! Big Victory for Progressives The Public Option Lives! Big Victory for Progressives
Harry Reid just announced that he'll include a public option (with a provision that allows individual states to opt out of it) in the version of the health care bill he brings to ...
Oct 26, 2009 / Chris Hayes
What If, Instead of Fox, Team Obama Tackled Insurance Profiteers What If, Instead of Fox, Team Obama Tackled Insurance Profiteers
Suppose President Obama and his aides had decided to take on the worst offender among the big insurance companies this fall. Suppose the White House had highlighted the failure o...
Oct 26, 2009 / John Nichols
The Showdown in Chicago The Showdown in Chicago
The Showdown in Chicago is on! The ABA's annual convention has become the scene for a series of major protests, which are set to continue through Tuesday, when a major march and r...
Oct 26, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Obama’s Afghan Compromise? Obama’s Afghan Compromise?
With 14 more dead Americans today, in three helicopter crashes, it's beginning to look like President Obama will, after all, opt for a significant escalation of the war -- at leas...
Oct 26, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
A “Premature Antifascist” — And Proudly So A “Premature Antifascist” — And Proudly So
Clarence Kailin, a son of the Midwest whose lifelong commitment to social and economic justice led him to become one of the first Americans to take up arms against the fascist for...
Oct 26, 2009 / John Nichols
Around The Nation Around The Nation
When former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, comes out on November 17th, it won't go unanswered. Two of The Nation's top editors, Richard...
Oct 25, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel