Little to Celebrate in Iraq Little to Celebrate in Iraq
There's little to celebrate about the US pullback in Iraq. More than six years after the US invasion, Iraq is shattered. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead -- far more, inc...
Jun 30, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Honduras Crisis Forces Obama to Focus on Latin America Honduras Crisis Forces Obama to Focus on Latin America
The military coup in Honduras puts pressure on the president to break sharply with past American policies or risk losing remains of Latin America's goodwill.
Jun 30, 2009 / Tom Hayden
With Mercy for the Greedy With Mercy for the Greedy
Why do Frederick Seidel's champions consistently transform his weaknesses into virtues?
Jun 30, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Alex Sanchez’s Arrest Alex Sanchez’s Arrest
The indictment of Alex Sanchez, a revered gangbanger-turned-peacemaker, raises doubts about the LAPD and whether it should be released from a federal court order.
Jun 30, 2009 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Sex, Hypocrisy & Governor Sanford Sex, Hypocrisy & Governor Sanford
Before we push the story about Governor Mark Sanford's "hiking the Appalachian Trail" (i.e. seeing his lover in Buenos Aires) entirely out of mind, I'd like to call atten...
Jun 29, 2009 / Eyal Press
Gay Rights Beyond Marriage and the Military Gay Rights Beyond Marriage and the Military
Nation contributor Lisa Duggan reflects on the state of the gay rights movement, forty years after Stonewall.
Jun 29, 2009 / Press Room
Israel’s Man of Conscience Israel’s Man of Conscience
The author is going to prison--for peacefully resisting settler and army violence against West Bank Palestinians and the illegal expropriation of their land.
Chipotle Injustice Chipotle Injustice
Last week, leaders of the food justice movement -- including Eric Schlosser, Raj Patel, Frances Moore Lappe, and Robert Kenner, producer and director of the new documentary Food, ...
Jun 29, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Honduras Coup Poses Challenges, Questions for Obama, Congress Honduras Coup Poses Challenges, Questions for Obama, Congress
President Obama branded as "not legal" the the military coup in Honduras, where elected President Manuel (Mel) Zelaya was kidnapped and flown out of the country by soldiers bent o...
Jun 29, 2009 / John Nichols
Time to End False Bipartisanship Time to End False Bipartisanship
God I hope David Broder is wrong. "The President has told visitors," the Washington Post columnist wrote last week, "that he would rather have 70 votes in the Senate for a bill th...
Jun 28, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel