Should Obama Face a Challenge in the Democratic Primary? Should Obama Face a Challenge in the Democratic Primary?
Facing a primary challenger might force Obama to embrace progressive ideals—and he can’t win 2012 if he doesn’t.
Oct 5, 2011 / Feature / John Nichols
Can Marine Le Pen Win in France? Can Marine Le Pen Win in France?
The new leader of the National Front has risen in the polls by borrowing arguments from the left. But critics worry: has she turned against her father’s bigotry, or merely ma...
Oct 5, 2011 / Feature / Agnès Catherine Poirier
The Wrong Moral Revolution: On Michael Barnett The Wrong Moral Revolution: On Michael Barnett
To see humanitarianism everywhere is not to see it at all.
Oct 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / David Rieff
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Fatale, Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write About This Place, Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The History of Costaguana
Oct 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Alexandra Schwartz
Getting to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama Getting to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama
The Origins of Political Order, a work of total world history, pits the old Fukuyama against the new.
Oct 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney
The Politics of Occupy Wall Street: Bernie Sanders, Progressives, Big Unions Endorse; Obama’s Silent The Politics of Occupy Wall Street: Bernie Sanders, Progressives, Big Unions Endorse; Obama’s Silent
A movement once dismissed is now embraced by Teamsters, MoveOn, key Democrats and even Ron Paul. Obama? Not so much.
Oct 5, 2011 / John Nichols
Occupy Your City Occupy Your City
The #OccupyWallStreet movement against economic injustice is spreading like wildfire.
Oct 5, 2011 / Peter Rothberg
What Would Keynes Do? A Forum What Would Keynes Do? A Forum
Economists and wonks respond to Thomas Geoghegan's Nation essay “What Would Keynes Do?”
Oct 5, 2011 / Doug Henwood, Matt Yglesias, and James K. Galbraith
Live From Liberty Square: Laura Flanders at Occupy Wall Street Live From Liberty Square: Laura Flanders at Occupy Wall Street
A live feed of a special broadcast from the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City.
Oct 5, 2011 / Laura Flanders
‘If the South Would Have Won’: The NFL and Hank Williams Jr. ‘If the South Would Have Won’: The NFL and Hank Williams Jr.
Hank Williams Jr compared Obama to Hitler. ESPN seemed surprised. We shouldn’t be.
Oct 5, 2011 / Dave Zirin