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Feature
Senate Prepares to Cast First Heathcare Votes
It takes sixty votes to pass an amendment and most of the proposed measures for the healthcare bill will never pass. Still, a great opportunity to grandstand over pet issues.
Lindsay Beyerstein
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Obama Announces Afghanistan Escalation
The expediency of Obama’s Afghanistan decision was transparent. Satisfy the generals by sending 30,000 more troops. Satisfy the public with a timeline for beginning withdrawals of those same troops, without a timeline for completing withdrawal.
Tom Hayden
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Waffling Democrats’ Healthcare Hypocrisy
The very same senators who smear the public option are staunch supporters of the Veterans Health Administration–and that really is socialized medicine.
Peter Dreier
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The Spirit of Seattle Today
From the “water wars” of Latin America and South Africa to the battle against corporate takeover of agriculture, the revolt that began ten years ago lives on.
Anuradha Mittal
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The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won’t)
What if the president actually decided to take an “off-ramp” from the Afghan War?
Tom Engelhardt
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Crunch Time in the Senate
Will conservative and liberal objections to the Senate healthcare bill’s provisions regarding women’s health doom the legislation?
Lindsay Beyerstein
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Kaptur Takes on Foreclosures
Representative Marcy Kaptur, a longstanding advocate for foreclosure relief, talks to The Nation about prospects for sweeping financial reform.
Greg Kaufmann
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Editorial
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Noted.
The race to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat is on; Geithner is under the gun; The Nation‘s revered puzzle setter retires.
The Editors
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How to Save Journalism
To save news media, stop blaming the Internet and start thinking about how subsidies could revive a public good.
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
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Filibustering the Public
Filibustering healthcare reform? This is not what democracy looks like.
The Editors
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Column
Afghanistan: Here We Go Again
Thanks to the political opportunism of the current Commander-in-Chief, the Afghanistan war is still without end or logical purpose.
Robert Scheer
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Tiger Woods Deserves Your Scrutiny
When the golfer makes deals with dictatorships and unaccountable corporations, all in the name of his billion-dollar brand, he deserves no privacy.
Dave Zirin
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Still Doing God’s Work on Wall Street
Is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the sweetheart deals that passed billions of taxpayer dollars through the AIG shell game to the banks that caused the meltdown?
Robert Scheer
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Last Column About Sarah Palin–Ever
We can’t stop looking at our first female political train wreck.
Katha Pollitt
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Light in the Middle of the Tunnel
The upcoming trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is the best news for the print press since Monica Lewinsky.
Alexander Cockburn
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Books & the Arts
Angels to Radios: On Rainer Maria Rilke
The poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke fuses lament and praise, and mingles amazement about sheer existence with mystery and terror.
Ange Mlinko
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A Time Beyond Dreams: South Africa After Mandela
Nelson Mandela was a patriarch, Thabo Mbeki a princeling. Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s new president, is purely a politician.
Andrew Rice
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The New Inquisition
Alarmist tracts about immigration in Europe are debates about Muslims–not with them.
Laila Lalami
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Novelist From Another Planet: On Horacio Castellanos Moya
Horacio Castellanos Moya has turned anxiety into an art form and put El Salvador on the literary map.
Natasha Wimmer
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Travels by Taxi: Reflections on Cuba
A Cuban novelist reflects on the consequences of his country’s revolution.
José Manuel Prieto
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Letters
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3195
ACROSS
1 Backing up, crash into French bike–America, in short, is fantastic! (9)
Frank W. Lewis