Is Rupert Murdoch’s Media Empire About to Collapse? Is Rupert Murdoch’s Media Empire About to Collapse?
The Nation's John Nichols joins The Last Word to explain the history of Murdoch's extreme influence over British politics and also how this translates to who is—and who isn't...
Jul 11, 2011 / Press Room
Like Water for Gold in El Salvador Like Water for Gold in El Salvador
Activists are risking their lives in the fight against US and Canadian mining companies.
Jul 11, 2011 / Feature / Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
The Shelters That Clinton Built The Shelters That Clinton Built
Structurally unsafe and laced with formaldehyde, the "hurricane-proof" classroom trailers installed by the Clinton Foundation in Haiti came from the same company being su...
Jul 11, 2011 / Feature / Isabel Macdonald and Isabeau Doucet
War Without Humans War Without Humans
The increasing involvement of unmanned drones in our warmaking suggests that it might be useful to stop thinking of war in exclusively human terms.
Jul 11, 2011 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Slide Show: Inside the Clinton Foundation’s Shoddily Built, Searingly Hot and Toxic Haiti Trailers Slide Show: Inside the Clinton Foundation’s Shoddily Built, Searingly Hot and Toxic Haiti Trailers
Jul 9, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation
With Rupert Murdoch’s Empire in Crisis, What of Fox and His American Project? With Rupert Murdoch’s Empire in Crisis, What of Fox and His American Project?
Murdoch’s media conglomerate, embroiled in a British phone-hacking scandal, has been forced to close one of its largest holdings, the News of the World newspaper. A critical ...
Jul 7, 2011 / John Nichols
Bradley Manning, American Hero Bradley Manning, American Hero
Four reasons why Pfc. Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, not a prison cell.
Jul 7, 2011 / Chase Madar
McCain Wanted to Give Obama Greater War Powers, but Democratic Senators Appear to Have Rejected the Folly McCain Wanted to Give Obama Greater War Powers, but Democratic Senators Appear to Have Rejected the Folly
Defenders of the Constitution should thank antiwar activists who succeeded in getting the Senate to drop language that would have dramatically extended the warmaking powers of pres...
Jul 7, 2011 / John Nichols
US Troops in Iraq in 2013? US Troops in Iraq in 2013?
US casualties are rising again, yet Obama and McCain want forces to remain.
Jul 6, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
Government in Afghanistan Nears Collapse Government in Afghanistan Nears Collapse
Hamid Karzai is in showdown with the Afghan parliament, with huge stakes.
Jul 6, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss