Obama: You’re Your Only Hope Obama: You’re Your Only Hope
It's too late for Obama to turn around the economy. But to win re-election, he better expose what Republican plans to cut spending will really do.
Jun 8, 2011 / The Editors
The Safe Bet: Renewables The Safe Bet: Renewables
Is dirty energy the only way to meet the huge demands of the modern world? New numbers suggest renewables could do the job—and more.
Jun 8, 2011 / Kumi Naidoo
Noted. Noted.
Dana Goldstein on the New York Times’s new executive editor, Liliana Segura on fairer sentencing and John Nichols on paid sick days
Jun 8, 2011 / Various Contributors
Spain’s ‘Indignados’ Take the Square Spain’s ‘Indignados’ Take the Square
Faced with dismal job prospects and enraged at a new internet piracy law, Spanish youth have occupied Madrid's La Puerta del Sol. But with the political right ascendant, where will...
Jun 8, 2011 / Andy Robinson
Medicare for All! Medicare for All!
The lesson Democrats should take from the backlash to Paul Ryan's Medicare plan? Voters do want government running their healthcare system.
Jun 1, 2011 / The Editors
‘The Nation’ and WikiHaiti ‘The Nation’ and WikiHaiti
Leaked documents provide an extraordinary glimpse of US maneuvering in Haiti from before the 2004 coup through the devastating 2010 earthquake.
Jun 1, 2011 / The Editors
‘Cruel & Unusual’ Prisons ‘Cruel & Unusual’ Prisons
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, talks to Liliana Segura about the Supreme Court ruling on overcrowding in Californi...
Jun 1, 2011 / Liliana Segura
Noted. Noted.
George Zornick on a turning tide on Afghanistan, Dana Frank on Zelaya’'s return to Honduras and Jeremy Scahill on the death of Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad
Jun 1, 2011 / Various Contributors
Serbia’s War Criminal Serbia’s War Criminal
Ratko Mladic may face justice—but what about the Serbs who voted for the politics of nationalism, hatred and war?
Jun 1, 2011 / Slavenka Drakulic
Obama, Netanyahu and the Arab Revolt: Fateful Mideast Triangle Obama, Netanyahu and the Arab Revolt: Fateful Mideast Triangle
Time is running out on America's ability to protect Israel from itself.
May 25, 2011 / The Editors