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The Shelters That Clinton Built

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 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 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

Medvedev, Zuma Seek Libya Accord Medvedev, Zuma Seek Libya Accord

Russia and South Africa try to mediate an end to Obama’s war in Libya.

Jul 5, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss

This Week: Debt-Ceiling Theatrics. PLUS: The Nation’s Summer Reading Picks! This Week: Debt-Ceiling Theatrics. PLUS: The Nation’s Summer Reading Picks!

 This week, reckless Republicans and their debt-ceiling theatrics. Plus, The Nation's Summer reading picks.

Jul 1, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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