High Cost, Low Odds High Cost, Low Odds
Staying in Afghanistan will cost many more American soldiers' lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Is it worth it?
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Stephen M. Walt
Congressman Grayson Wins Another Round Congressman Grayson Wins Another Round
Florida Congressman Alan Grayson keeps provoking congressional Republicans and their media allies with fact-based challenges to the lies being used to block health care reform. T...
Oct 21, 2009 / John Nichols
Afghanistan: A Special Issue Afghanistan: A Special Issue
The essays in our forum call into question many of the myths and faulty assumptions about the best course of US policy in Afghanistan.
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / The Nation
At Least, At Most: The Novels of Don Carpenter At Least, At Most: The Novels of Don Carpenter
With his plain, weather-beaten prose, Don Carpenter was a good enough novelist not to have to prove it.
Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
A City Unbottled: Mary Beard’s Pompeii A City Unbottled: Mary Beard’s Pompeii
In The Fires of Vesuvius, Mary Beard unearths the seedier realities of the Roman social and political experience.
Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Joy Connolly
A Makeshift World: On Thomas Demand A Makeshift World: On Thomas Demand
For the photographer Thomas Demand, Germany is like any other country because it is haunted by history.
Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Remember the Women? Remember the Women?
Women belong at the center of the debate over the Afghan war, not on the margins.
Devil in the Old Dominion Devil in the Old Dominion
Everyone is looking to Virginia's off-year gubernatorial contest as a Middle American barometer for 2010.
Oct 21, 2009 / Bob Moser
Dem Doldrums in Gotham Dem Doldrums in Gotham
Whatever his party label, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's firmest loyalties are to Wall Street. Why is his Democratic opponent unwilling to forcefully challenge him on economic issues?
Oct 21, 2009 / Theodore Hamm
Crafting Health Reform Crafting Health Reform
Healthcare reform is looking less like a fantasy and more like a probability--but we need to keep a close watch on affordability, financing and the public option.
Oct 21, 2009 / J. Lester Feder