Obama’s Iraq Plan Ain’t It Obama’s Iraq Plan Ain’t It
It's hard not to take a glass-half-empty attitude toward President Obama's Iraq speech today -- especially when John McCain is praising his policy and prominent Democrats are crit...
Feb 27, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Around The Nation Around The Nation
I'm on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopolous on Sundaymorning. The topic? President Obama's proposed $3.5 trillion budget. Inour lead editorial this week we offered cautious...
Feb 27, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Nation’s Chris Hayes on Coleman, Franken Race The Nation’s Chris Hayes on Coleman, Franken Race
With the stimulus battle out of the way, The Nation's Chris Hayes argues Democrats now need to focus on seating Al Franken as the fifty-ninth vote in the Senate.
Feb 27, 2009 / Countdown
We Lost Trillions We Lost Trillions
In this week's column on the Obama foreclosure plan I write: This is all significant progress over the callous inaction of the Bush administration. But though the Obama foreclosu...
Feb 27, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Freeman Appointed to Key Intel Post Freeman Appointed to Key Intel Post
All's well that ends well. After much huffing and puffing by the neocons -- from an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal to blog pontification at the Weekly Standard, the Middle East...
Feb 26, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Why We Detain the Innocent Why We Detain the Innocent
Yet again the courts have ignored the Constitution and legal precedent, leaving seventeen innocent Guantánamo detainees in legal limbo.
Feb 26, 2009 / Aziz Huq
We Need a Department of Homegrown Security We Need a Department of Homegrown Security
Drop the scary Bush lingo and start creating resilient communities than can effectively recover from disaster in this age of financial and climate chaos.
Strange Victory, Strange Defeat Strange Victory, Strange Defeat
We've got a new "Think Again" column herecalled, "Thank God for Gitmo." I've also got a new Nation column called "War is Over (If You Want It)here. Ireally like the hed of t...
Feb 26, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Math Is Hard Math Is Hard
Since I've been giving Gary Gensler such a hard time for refusing to admit a mistake, I thought it would be appropriate to pointed out just how colossally I screwed up the math in...
Feb 26, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Lessons in Democracy From Bangladesh Lessons in Democracy From Bangladesh
An instructive election in Bangladesh demonstrates that in Muslim countries around the world, the United States really needs to let democracy take its own course.
Feb 26, 2009 / Feature / Jalal Alamgir