UN Women Agency Must Confront Wartime Violence UN Women Agency Must Confront Wartime Violence
Anticipating the appointment in the next few weeks of the highest-level United Nations official ever to promote the rights and status of women worldwide, peace advocates are dema...
Aug 10, 2010 / Barbara Crossette
Mosque Mania Mosque Mania
There is a distinct creepiness to the controversy now raging around a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan.
Aug 10, 2010 / Stephan Salisbury
Women, the Taliban and That ‘Time’ Cover Women, the Taliban and That ‘Time’ Cover
Whatever reason the United States has for being in Afghanistan, it has nothing to do with the plight of Afghan women.
Aug 9, 2010 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
The Russian-Georgian War: Two Years Later The Russian-Georgian War: Two Years Later
Aug 7, 2010 / The Nation
Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Whose Hands? Whose Blood?
Killing civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Aug 5, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt
Left, Right and Wrong Left, Right and Wrong
On Nascar, concussions, Israel and Raul Malo.
Aug 5, 2010 / Blog / Eric Alterman
Rep. Dennis Kucinich Seeks to Ban Assassinations of US Citizens Rep. Dennis Kucinich Seeks to Ban Assassinations of US Citizens
Kucinich's legislation says: "No one, including the President, may instruct a person…to engage in, or conspire to engage in, the extrajudicial killing of a United State...
Aug 5, 2010 / Blog / Jeremy Scahill
Kashmir on Fire Again as Indian Troops Shoot to Kill Kashmir on Fire Again as Indian Troops Shoot to Kill
An eruption of deadly violence in the picturesque countryside and towns of Kashmir is a reminder that many Kashmiris still do not consider themselves part of India, and profess t...
Aug 4, 2010 / Barbara Crossette
What Are Teachers Worth? What Are Teachers Worth?
If we can't find a way to pay living wages for kindergarten teachers, who are we?
Aug 3, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Obama’s Plan for Iraq Is the Petraeus-Bush Iraq Plan Obama’s Plan for Iraq Is the Petraeus-Bush Iraq Plan
"The idea that Obama is making good on a campaign promise to end the war is playing with words,” says The Nation's Jeremy Scahill.
Aug 3, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room