Obama Should Engage Now for Middle East Peace Obama Should Engage Now for Middle East Peace
An Israeli air assault on Palestinian targets in Gaza has taken an estimated 300 lives over the course of the past several days, and the death toll is mounting rapidly. Dozens of ...
Dec 29, 2008 / John Nichols
Airstrikes in Gaza Airstrikes in Gaza
This statement was issued in response to Israel's attack in Gaza by Professor Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories and a lo...
Dec 29, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Eartha Kitt: An Anti-War Patriot Eartha Kitt: An Anti-War Patriot
Forty years ago, America’s cultural icons expressed the frustration of the American people with the failure of then-President Lyndon Johnson to end this country’s undec…
Dec 26, 2008 / John Nichols
Celebrating a Christmas Truce and the Prospect of Peace Celebrating a Christmas Truce and the Prospect of Peace
On November 11 of this year – the 80th anniversary of that 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month when World War I ended – there was dedicated in Frélinghien, France, a ...
Dec 24, 2008 / John Nichols
Obama’s Afghan Escalation Obama’s Afghan Escalation
True enough, Barack Obama has pledged to support a "surge" in US forces in Afghanistan, as bad an idea as that might be. (See my article, "Obama's Afghan Dilemma," in The Nation.)...
Dec 23, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
In the Trenches and Fighting Slavery In the Trenches and Fighting Slavery
A delegation from the Coalition of ImmokaleeWorkers recently took time during its "Northeast Tour for FairFood" to visit The Nation offices in New York City. It was anhonor to me...
Dec 23, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Christmas Pardon and the Making of a Unified Nation A Christmas Pardon and the Making of a Unified Nation
Seventy-five years ago this week, amidst all the demands of the New Deal moment that he was defining, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued a remarkable proclamation that had...
Dec 23, 2008 / John Nichols
Justice in New Orleans Justice in New Orleans
In an 18-month investigation appearing this week on the cover of The Nation (directed and underwritten by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute), reporter A.C. Thompson p...
Dec 19, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Maliki’s Secret Crackdown Maliki’s Secret Crackdown
The story of the sweeping, and secretive, arrests, in Iraq's national security apparatus is getting curiouser and curiouser. It now appears as if the whole thing was a clumsy effo...
Dec 19, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
A Warrior for Workers A Warrior for Workers
When the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor decided in 2000 that it would stop giving "rubber stamp" backing to disappointing Democrats, the federation's dynamic leader at the...
Dec 19, 2008 / John Nichols