Around The Nation Around The Nation
In March, The Nation and Nation Books hosted an event in New York Cityin conjunction with the release of our book Meltdown: How Greed andCorruption Shattered Our Financial Syste...
May 10, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Democrat Calls for Executive Accountability A Democrat Calls for Executive Accountability
The election of Barack Obama to the presidency may have caused some Democratic members of Congress to think that the constitutional questions raised by the executive excesses of t...
May 8, 2009 / John Nichols
Smart Power in Pakistan/Afghanistan? Smart Power in Pakistan/Afghanistan?
Inside the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill Tuesday, there were twodistinctly different hearings on Pakistan. One featured the Obamaadministration's special representative for Afg...
May 8, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Together Through Life Together Through Life
We've got a new "Think Again" column hereIt's called "Codeword: 'Empathy' " and it's about the telepathic abilitiesof conservatives to discern Obama's real intentions to destroy ...
May 7, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Free Saberi, Lee and Ling Free Saberi, Lee and Ling
You've probably heard of Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American radio journalist and author convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran for spying. Both her family and Wa...
May 6, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
The Year of Same-Sex Marriage! The Year of Same-Sex Marriage!
It was not necessarily supposed to be this way. After California joined the agonizingly long list of states that barred same-sex marriage following a referendum vote last year, s...
May 6, 2009 / John Nichols
Nick Burns Wants Iran Talks on Two-Month Fuse Nick Burns Wants Iran Talks on Two-Month Fuse
The following news item was written for TehranBureau.com. At a hearing today at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Senator John Kerry, former top State Department...
May 6, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Punctuating Obama’s Trilateral Af-Pak Meeting Punctuating Obama’s Trilateral Af-Pak Meeting
Against the backdrop of all-day meetings on Pakistan and Afghanistan, US air attacks have killed dozens more civilians in Afghanistan. Here's the schedule for today: 9:15 Hill...
May 6, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Battle for Healthcare Begins The Battle for Healthcare Begins
"If there is no public insurance option…then this is not reform at all." That's what Governor Howard Dean said last night in a conference call with thousands of activists -- an...
May 5, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tax Haven Rhetoric Doesn’t Trump Job-Loss Reality Tax Haven Rhetoric Doesn’t Trump Job-Loss Reality
President Obama wants to close accounting loopholes for corporations that set up "tax havens" abroad. Excellent. But don't be fooled into thinking that this is a particularly s...
May 5, 2009 / John Nichols