Clinton’s Anti-Union Allies Clinton’s Anti-Union Allies
Robert Johnson's nasty comments about Barack Obama earlier this week caused a huge stir in the media. Johnson issued a less-than-convincing clarification and then apologized to Oba...
Jan 18, 2008 / Ari Berman
CSI: Iraq CSI: Iraq
Despite the cosmetic acts of President Bush, his undertakers and enablers, America's Iraq is still a corpse.
Jan 18, 2008 / Tom Engelhardt
Our Eroding Dollar Our Eroding Dollar
No matter how much it adds to inflation, the Fed, prodded by Wall Street, is poised to again lower interest rates--punching an even bigger hole in our purchasing power.
Jan 18, 2008 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
NIMBY Comes to China NIMBY Comes to China
In Shanghai, angry, middle-class protesters say a high-speed train will wreck their quality of life. This new form of dissent could be one of the biggest challenges China will face...
Jan 18, 2008 / Feature / Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Racial Politics, Clinton Style Racial Politics, Clinton Style
No matter who injected the issue of race and gender into the Democratic presidential campaign, it's not going away.
Jan 18, 2008 / Ari Berman
A Must-Win State for Obama A Must-Win State for Obama
Caucuses are indefensibly awful ways in which to select delegates to a political party's national convention, and they are an even worse way in which to sort out the field of cand...
Jan 18, 2008 / John Nichols
Whither the Dream Whither the Dream
This post was updated on January 20, and then again on January 21. From 1961 to 1966, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an annual essay for The Nation on the state of civ...
Jan 18, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Obama and the Reagan Wing of the Democratic Party Obama and the Reagan Wing of the Democratic Party
"The genius of American democracy has somehow done it again. George Bush is the right president at the right time." So declared the consistently-conservative Las Vegas Review-Jou...
Jan 18, 2008 / John Nichols
Suicide Is Painless Suicide Is Painless
Kang's political mentor--and reputed former lover--is found with a bullet in his brain. As the media is poised to pounce, she readies her talking points with a growing sense of dre...
Jan 17, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
Political Fact Meets Political Fiction Political Fact Meets Political Fiction
Politics is a serious business--and it's no secret that at The Nation, we're pretty darn serious about it. But politics is also a highly entertaining blood sport, rife with scand...
Jan 17, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel