No Man Is an Island: Fiction, Trauma, War No Man Is an Island: Fiction, Trauma, War
How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.
Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Blitzer
Will Chuck Hagel’s Appointment Actually Help the Anti-War Left? Will Chuck Hagel’s Appointment Actually Help the Anti-War Left?
The man Obama recently nominated for Secretary of Defense could alter the trajectory of the president’as center-right military policy.
Jan 8, 2013 / Blog / Phyllis Bennis
The American System of Suffering, 1965–2014 The American System of Suffering, 1965–2014
When we will begin to learn the real lessons of Vietnam?
Jan 8, 2013 / Nick Turse
Stephen Cohen: As Obama Starts Second Term, His Russian ‘Reset’ Is Dead Stephen Cohen: As Obama Starts Second Term, His Russian ‘Reset’ Is Dead
The latest political row over the Magnitsky Act merely continues America's failure to engage with Russia under Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and now Barack Obama.
Jan 7, 2013 / Nation in the News / Press Room
When the Great Judgment Call Came, Hagel Handed Bush a Blank Check When the Great Judgment Call Came, Hagel Handed Bush a Blank Check
Arguments will be made for Obama’s Defense pick. But Hagel’s vote to authorize Bush and Cheney to attack Iraq should raise eyebrows—and questions.
Jan 7, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
Idle No More’s Hunger for Justice Idle No More’s Hunger for Justice
Idle No More has sparked international solidarity. What can that mean for Native rights in the US?
Jan 7, 2013 / Blog / Aura Bogado
Labor Groups Pan Walmart Plan to Bring Oversight Approach Used in Bangladesh to the US Labor Groups Pan Walmart Plan to Bring Oversight Approach Used in Bangladesh to the US
A labor official says the kind of auditing Walmart wants to bring to its US warehouses “led directly to the deaths of 112 people in Bangladesh.”
Jan 4, 2013 / Blog / Josh Eidelson
South Africa’s Barriers to Abortion South Africa’s Barriers to Abortion
Seventeen years ago, as apartheid came to an end in South Africa and a democratically elected government took power, the country became an abortion rights pioneer. In 1996, the pos…
Jan 3, 2013 / Photo Essay / Jake Naughton, Jina Moore, and Estelle Ellis
The Mess in Iraq The Mess in Iraq
Violence in Iraq is going from bad to worse, in tandem with neighboring Syria.
Jan 3, 2013 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
Will ‘Dima’s Law’ Lead to a New Cold War? Will ‘Dima’s Law’ Lead to a New Cold War?
For Americans who understand the importance of a cooperative U.S.-Russia relationship, 2012 was a disturbing year.
Jan 3, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel