Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign
Clinton and Obama each have nuanced plans to ban private security firms from Iraq. The difference is how they're spinning them.
Mar 18, 2008 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater, the Campaign Issue Blackwater, the Campaign Issue
In this interview with RealNews, Nation Correspondent Jeremy Scahill explains how Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama differ on the use of private security contractors in Iraq.
Mar 18, 2008 / Video / Jeremy Scahill and The Nation Video
The Experts Speak on Iraq The Experts Speak on Iraq
To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, some daily inspiration from the experts who led us there.
Mar 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf
Final Fantasy Final Fantasy
Susan Faludi's Terror Dream made a provocative splash, but therapy is no substitute for understanding reality.
Mar 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / David Waldstreicher
Reviving Vietnam War Tactics Reviving Vietnam War Tactics
One of Gen. Petraeus's top advisors advocates a return to the global Phoenix program used during the Vietnam War.
Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Tom Hayden
A Garden of Monsters A Garden of Monsters
The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño's ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.
Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Carmen Boullosa
The War and the Working Class The War and the Working Class
Young people drawn into combat by the "economic draft" are being treated just as poorly as all the other workers in this neoliberal economy.
Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Michael Zweig
The Wages of Peace The Wages of Peace
Spending on the war in Iraq is a job killer. Ending the war would be the real stimulus package.
Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier
Who Said the War Would Pay for Itself? They Did! Who Said the War Would Pay for Itself? They Did!
Unwise words from the "experts" who promised a cost-free war.
Mar 13, 2008 / Feature / Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf
It’s the War Economy, Stupid! It’s the War Economy, Stupid!
Among the major causes of the current economic crisis is the staggering cost of the war in Iraq.
Mar 13, 2008 / Editorial / The Editors