Job’s Comforters Job’s Comforters
Science can be disproved only by its own criteria; when it comes to mental illness, its own criteria are often insufficient.
May 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Adam Phillips
Needed: A Progressive Story Needed: A Progressive Story
Instead of an endless platform of policy ideas, progressives need to tell a shared narrative.
May 5, 2010 / Feature / Amitai Etzioni
Party Every Day Party Every Day
Fox News is getting ever more brazen in its refusal to distinguish between journalist and politician—but so is everyone else.
May 5, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman
‘Shocker’ in Laura Bush Memoir No Big Deal For Texas Journos ‘Shocker’ in Laura Bush Memoir No Big Deal For Texas Journos
The former First Lady, as a teen, ran a stop sign and caused a fatal car crash. In her new memoir she talks about it at last, but it's pretty ho-hum (like the rest of t...
May 5, 2010 / Morgan Ashenfelter
Scahill on Olbermann, vanden Heuvel on The Ed Show Tonight Scahill on Olbermann, vanden Heuvel on The Ed Show Tonight
Check out two Nation contributors on MSNBC tonight, talking Times Square and the politics of BP.
May 5, 2010 / Press Room
A Confederacy of Foxes A Confederacy of Foxes
The mainstream media track Fox News as if it were the Sixth Estate. Does that benefit us—or Fox?
May 5, 2010 / Richard Pollak
Glenn Beck Gets It Right Glenn Beck Gets It Right
The attempted Times Square bombing is a reminder that the defense budgets for high-tech warfare are beside the point in countering terrorists who turn firecrackers into bombs.
May 5, 2010 / Robert Scheer
Bud Selig: The Choice Is Yours Bud Selig: The Choice Is Yours
Under increasing pressure from players, protesting fans, and civil rights leaders, Bud Selig needs to decide whether Major League Baseball will challenge Arizona's draconian anti-i...
May 5, 2010 / Dave Zirin
Crist Switches Parties & the Latest on Immigration Crist Switches Parties & the Latest on Immigration
Ari Melber discusses immigration reform and Crist’s switch to Independent on The Dylan Ratigan Show.
May 4, 2010 / Press Room
Crist Switches Parties & the Latest on Immigration Crist Switches Parties & the Latest on Immigration
Ari Melber discusses immigration reform and Crist’s switch to Independent on The Dylan Ratigan Show.
May 4, 2010 / MSNBC