Sarkozy Wants G-20 to Reject “Cult of the Market” Sarkozy Wants G-20 to Reject “Cult of the Market”
When the G-20 meets in Pittsburgh next week, French President Sarkozy will urge world leaders to make two moves -- one immediate and one long-term -- that have the potential to te...
Sep 15, 2009 / John Nichols
Working Families Party Builds Progressive Power Working Families Party Builds Progressive Power
The Working Families Party was started in 1998 by a group of labor and community activists whowanted to reinvigorate the fight for economic and social justice in NewYork. The Nat...
Sep 14, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
US-Iran Talks Start October 1 US-Iran Talks Start October 1
The hawks, neoconservatives, and Israeli hardliners are squealing, but the US and Iran are set to talk. The talks will begin October 1, among Iran and the P5 + 1, the permanent me...
Sep 14, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
One Year of Bankster Bailouts and Meltdown Madness One Year of Bankster Bailouts and Meltdown Madness
Happy Meltdown Day
OK, not so "happy."
But this is the anniversary of the collapse of the house of cards that was Lehman Brothers.
Sep 14, 2009 / John Nichols
Around The Nation Around The Nation
I mostly avoided coverage of the weekend's 9/12 "teabagger" rally in Washington, DC; we were moving my daughter in to college. But the specter of race--and of conservativ...
Sep 14, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sanders Calls for National Dialogue on Afghanistan Exit Strategy Sanders Calls for National Dialogue on Afghanistan Exit Strategy
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has joined Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold is declaring that the United States needs to start thinking about how to extract its military from Afghan...
Sep 14, 2009 / John Nichols
Resisting Foreclosures Resisting Foreclosures
In Georgia, the ease with which someone can lose a home is staggering. A foreclosure-eviction can occur without judicial review in just35 days, and at 10 a.m. on the first Tu...
Sep 12, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
WTOP Yellow Journalism on Iran-Venezuela WTOP Yellow Journalism on Iran-Venezuela
Earlier this week, I lambasted Robert Morgenthau for his alarmist, fear-mongering speech at the Brookings Institution and op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which he suggested d...
Sep 11, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
No New Powers for the Fed No New Powers for the Fed
In just 10 months, the Federal Reserve has handed trillions of taxpayer dollars to the banks without telling taxpayers who got the money and whether we'll ever get it back. The Fe...
Sep 11, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
On 9/11/09 On 9/11/09
Eight years after the tragedy of 9/11, I am reposting my introduction to "A Just Response," a collection of The Nation's writings on terrorism, democracy, 9/11 and its aftermath. ...
Sep 11, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel