Feingold: Need an Afghan ‘Timetable’ Feingold: Need an Afghan ‘Timetable’
For a forthcoming (later this week) article on Afghanistan for Rolling Stone, I interviewed Senator Russ Feingold, one of the few members of the Senate who's been willing to speak...
Oct 12, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Burden & The Nobel The Burden & The Nobel
The choice has always been, as a former chair of the Nobel Peace Prize judging committee explained in 2001, " a political act." This year it was also an ingenious leap of...
Oct 11, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
Last Spring, Sebastian Jones was fact-checking in The Nation's modest Capitol Hill office as our DC intern, keeping track of the excitement (and corruption) in Congress. Like a sea...
Oct 11, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Berlin Postcard Berlin Postcard
Saturday, October 3, was Reunification Day, the anniversary of the formal reuniting of East and West Germany in 1990.
Oct 10, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Obama’s Campaign Merits a Peace Prize Obama’s Campaign Merits a Peace Prize
Readers who have followed this writer's commentaries on the political machinations of the 44th president are by now well aware that I never quite bought into the whole Barack Obam...
Oct 10, 2009 / John Nichols
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
We've got a new Think Again column called "CBS and Dan Rather--Doing theRight's Dirty Work," and it's here. My Nation column, "Where have you gone, William Safire?" is here. ...
Oct 9, 2009 / Eric Alterman
US Out of Af-Pak US Out of Af-Pak
As the President and Congress are currently reviewing US war policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, now is the time to apply as much popular pressure as possible against escalation. ...
Oct 9, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Are You Represented By a “Public Option Senators” Are You Represented By a “Public Option Senators”
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, a health care reform champion who has (along with Iowa Senator Tom Harkin and West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller) led the fight for a robust public ...
Oct 9, 2009 / John Nichols
Sea of Heartbreak Sea of Heartbreak
We've got a new Think Again column called "CBS and Dan Rather--Doing theRight's Dirty Work," and it's here. My Nation column, "Where have you gone, William Safire?" is here. ...
Oct 8, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Rural Health Care, the Public Option and the Opt Out Compromise Rural Health Care, the Public Option and the Opt Out Compromise
The latest health care legislative compromise being floated is one in which states would be allowed to opt out of offering a public option. I suppose if someone put a gun to my hea...
Oct 8, 2009 / Chris Hayes