The Afghanistan Study Group Challenges US Strategy, With Flawed but Useful Report The Afghanistan Study Group Challenges US Strategy, With Flawed but Useful Report
Will the "Team B"–style approach open the debate over the Afghan war, in which the establishment has largely closed ranks in support of a failing strategy?
Sep 10, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
A New UN Voice Calls for Criminalizing Conflict Rape A New UN Voice Calls for Criminalizing Conflict Rape
Rape is not an inevitable consequence of war, says new UN special representative Margot Wallström. And there's far more UN peacekeeping troops could do to prevent it...
Sep 10, 2010 / Barbara Crossette
Conversation: Barbara Crossette and Anja Rudiger on Human Rights in the US Conversation: Barbara Crossette and Anja Rudiger on Human Rights in the US
The Obama administration recently submitted a report on its own human rights record to the United Nations, becoming the first time US administration to do so. Barbara Crossette ...
Sep 9, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child… Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child…
Newest pieces, women complaining about the attention given to Jonathan Franzen, some book and DVD recommendations and the latest mail.
Sep 9, 2010 / Eric Alterman
Against Counterinsurgency Against Counterinsurgency
The recently released report of the Afghanistan Study Group affirms The Nation's long-held belief that American military disengagement in Afghanistan, combined with a new diplomati...
Sep 9, 2010 / The Editors
The Great Pakistan Deluge Never Happened The Great Pakistan Deluge Never Happened
Don't tune in; it's not important.
Sep 9, 2010 / Juan Cole
It Was Heaven That They Burned It Was Heaven That They Burned
Who is Rigoberta MenchĂș?
Sep 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
Biden Aide Refuses to Rule Out Continuing US Occupation in Iraq Biden Aide Refuses to Rule Out Continuing US Occupation in Iraq
Tony Blinken says that the US intends to remove the rest of troops in 2011, but he won't say that they'll leave even if Iraq falls apart. And, he says, there is no dialogue with Ir...
Sep 8, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Pentagon Triumphant on the Media Battlefield The Pentagon Triumphant on the Media Battlefield
The military's media megaphone and the U.S. global military presence.
Sep 7, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt
Obama Calculates Israel-Palestine Timing to Short-Circuit AIPAC Obama Calculates Israel-Palestine Timing to Short-Circuit AIPAC
Will Abbas declare Palestine an independent state if talks fail? And if so, how would Obama react?
Sep 7, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss