Keep Your Hands Off My Medicare! Keep Your Hands Off My Medicare!
As Republicans pursue one of the most unpopular programs in recent memory, progressives have an opportunity to reset the terms of the debate.
May 3, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
An Appeal From Journalists to Iran on World Press Freedom Day An Appeal From Journalists to Iran on World Press Freedom Day
Editors and colleauges of Shane Bauer, a Nation contributor, urge Iran to release him and his friend Josh Fattal.
May 3, 2011 / Richard Kim
With Osama Found, a Congresswoman Asks: Where’s the Afghanistan Exit Strategy? With Osama Found, a Congresswoman Asks: Where’s the Afghanistan Exit Strategy?
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree launches a petition to push for an exit from Afghanistan.
May 3, 2011 / John Nichols
The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors
What if, from the beginning, everyone killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars had been buried in a single large cemetery easily accessible to the American public? Would it bring the fig...
May 3, 2011 / Adam Hochschild
Eighty-Nine Arrested Protesting Paul Ryan’s Medicaid Cuts Eighty-Nine Arrested Protesting Paul Ryan’s Medicaid Cuts
Plus, thousands are expected to turn out in North Carolina and Pennsylvania today to protest state budget cuts.
May 3, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny
My Friend Len Weinglass My Friend Len Weinglass
Remembering a 1950s radical who developed his values, critical thinking and world view in a time when non-conforming was rare.
May 3, 2011 / Michael Steven Smith
New Photos: Obama Overseeing the bin Laden Operation New Photos: Obama Overseeing the bin Laden Operation
The White House has long used Flickr, the photo-sharing website, to publish images from behind the scenes of government. The new pictures of the bin Laden operation are sure to cap...
May 3, 2011 / Ari Melber
Arizona’s Choice Today: Tucson Students Lead New Civil Rights Movement Arizona’s Choice Today: Tucson Students Lead New Civil Rights Movement
Stumbling further into the quagmire of a national public relations disaster, drastic new measures by the Tucson Unified School District officials have turned the “manufacture...
May 3, 2011 / StudentNation / Jeff Biggers
Searching for Closure at Ground Zero Searching for Closure at Ground Zero
Closure. That was the word on people’s lips last night after President Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan.
May 2, 2011 / Laura Flanders
The Ghost of bin Laden The Ghost of bin Laden
Now that Osama is dead, can America at last break free of the conceit of endless war?
May 2, 2011 / William Greider