A Conversation with Joe Trippi

John Edwards's political consultant talks about web-driven organizing, why Hillary Clinton may be the next Howard Dean and how bloggers and mainstream media are covering the campaign.

Ari Melber

The Bush Legacy: Journey to the Dark Side

We have not come to grips with how centrally the Bush Administration has planted torture, abuse, kidnapping, and illegal imprisonment at the heart of governmental practice, the news, and everyday life.

Tom Engelhardt

Amid Silence, Terror War Escalates

Bush's "war on terror" is escalating without discussion or dissent amid the most open and democratic of American processes--the presidential debates.

Tom Hayden

New Hampshire’s Nuclear Primary

Edwards and Kucinich oppose nuclear power plants; Obama and Clinton are very much in favor: Will voters care?

Harvey Wasserman

A New Diplomacy for Pakistan

As American policy-makers and pundits seek a Plan B for Pakistan, it's time to recognize the desperate need for a new diplomacy for the Muslim world.

Christian Parenti

Benazir’s Bequest

In the shock, power grabs and crackdowns that followed Benazir Bhutto's assassination, it's easy to forget that the greatest casualty in Pakistan is the rule of law.

Amy Wilentz

A Night at the Caucus

An Iowa native attends his home-town caucus, and discovers deliberative democracy at its freewheeling finest. d

Ari Berman

Kenya’s Rigged Election

A stolen presidential vote--and not tribal conflict--has plunged Kenya into chaos and violence.

Tavia Nyong’o

Castro Helps Chavez Avert a Coup

An excerpt from Fidel Castro: My Life, a spoken autobiography.

The Nation

The Democratic Foreign Policy Wars

All the candidates reject Bush's disasters--but that won't be enough for the next administration.

Ari Berman

The Mad-Money Primary Race

If we don't fix the nominating process this year, it will be even worse in 2012.

John Nichols

Anti-War Lessons From New Hampshire

How will Democratic candidates end the war? None of the scenarios offered to New Hampshire voters really addressed the issue.

Tom Hayden

Recession–Who Cares?

Politicians and economists find it hard to admit that we have two economies--one for the rich and one for everyone else--and the latter has been in a recession, if not a depression, for a long, long time.

Barbara Ehrenreich

A Season of ‘Change’

Throughout the political sphere--in Democratic and Republican campaigns, in media coverage and pollsters' surveys--the word "change" is bubbling on people's lips. What does it really mean?

Jonathan Schell

Beyond the Labor Board

Partisan appointments to Bush's National Labor Relations Board have ensured it's virtually impossible for workers to get a fair shake.

Max Fraser

Noted.

Guest blogging at The Nation.com, gazing into Kristol's ball, revisiting Hoover's roundup.

the Editors

Toy Story

An eviscerated Consumer Product Safety Commission means American children still face perils from their toys.

Daphne Eviatar

Pakistan’s Plight

A multidimensional charade is taking place in Pakistan, and it is not an edifying sight.

Tariq Ali

Coming to Terms With Huckabee

There's a lot to like about Mike Huckabee. But when you look at his record, there's a lot to worry about.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Play the Class Card

Hillary Clinton may claim that her gender makes her the unmistakeable agent of change--but what's radical about voting for a corporate lawyer?

Robert Scheer

Maternity Fashions, Junior Size

Teens getting pregnant: bad. Teens having babies: good. If this makes no sense, wake up and smell the Enfamil: it's 2008!

Katha Pollitt

Against Dullness: The Campaigns So Far

All great seasons in politics begin with excitement. Right now there's none.

Alexander Cockburn

Mitt Romney As Doll

Wonder what this guy is made of?

Calvin Trillin

…and Now a Friendly Public Service Message from the Growth Hormone Industry

Ward Sutton

The Dot Matrix

In I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, novelist Sinan Antoon explores themes of love, loss, identity and resistance in the face of political oppression.

Laila Lalami

Fly Papers

An English translation of Lydie Salvayre's The Power of Flies demonstrates how this novelist and practicing psychiatrist has earned more nervous respect than love in France.

Lorna Scott Fox

Castro Helps Chavez Avert a Coup

An excerpt from Fidel Castro: My Life, a spoken autobiography.

The Nation

Two Poems for The Nation

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Jack Spicer

A Human Pledge

The most important American love poet in living memory, Robert Creeley celebrated the body and its ambivalent desires with a touch as light as a song.

Susan Stewart

Letters

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