Will Afghanistan Be Obama’s Vietnam? Will Afghanistan Be Obama’s Vietnam?
The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel weighs in on the danger Afghanistan poses to Obama's progressive agenda.
Jun 4, 2009 / Video / The Nation Video
Iraq’s New Death Squad Iraq’s New Death Squad
America has built an elite and lethal counterterrorism force. But who's calling the shots?
Jun 3, 2009 / Feature / Shane Bauer
The CIA’s Truth Problem The CIA’s Truth Problem
Will the CIA tell Congress the truth? Would Congress listen if it did?
Jun 3, 2009 / Editorial / Tim Weiner
Missing Word, Missing World: Graduating the Rest of Us, ’09 Missing Word, Missing World: Graduating the Rest of Us, ’09
Graduates of the Bush years, initiates of the Obama era, here's a commencement address that's suitably obscure and yet somehow ringing.
Jun 2, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Mr. Abbas Goes to Washington Mr. Abbas Goes to Washington
Though President Obama met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on May 28, there's little evidence that the United States is encouraging real progress toward a two-state...
May 28, 2009 / Feature / Ali Abunimah
Tiananmen at Twenty Tiananmen at Twenty
China has changed enormously since the 1989 massacre, but the Communist Party continues to deny what happened. Americans, too, continue to misremember a complex event.
May 27, 2009 / Editorial / Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The Dark Side of Plan Colombia The Dark Side of Plan Colombia
Is Plan Colombia subsidizing narco-traffickers to cultivate biofuels on stolen lands?
May 27, 2009 / Feature / Teo Ballvé
Torture and Truth Torture and Truth
The war, as we learned from the photos of Abu Ghraib, produced torture. Before that happened, torture had produced war.
May 27, 2009 / Feature / Jonathan Schell
The Border Violence Myth The Border Violence Myth
The national media have invented a drug-related crime wave that officials and local journalists say just isn't happening.
May 27, 2009 / Feature / Gabriel Arana
The Silence of MoveOn The Silence of MoveOn
MoveOn, once the most powerful grassroots peace organization, has rendered its members voiceless on the expanding wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And that silence sends a message...
May 26, 2009 / Feature / Tom Hayden