Investigating the Mortgage Crisis Investigating the Mortgage Crisis
In a press release last week, Chairman Edolphus Towns of the House Committee for Oversight and Government Reform announced a major investigation "into whether mortgage compani...
Oct 28, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
When former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, comes out on November 17th, it won't go unanswered. Two of The Nation's top editors, Richard...
Oct 25, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
NoEscalation.org NoEscalation.org
President Obama will soon make what could be the defining decision of his presidency. The course he chooses in Afghanistan will tell us a lot about the kind of country we will beco...
Oct 23, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Public Pensions and Saving Souls Public Pensions and Saving Souls
In recent years, I have written many times of the tremendous public investment deficit facing this country. Our infrastructure is old, and it isn't being replaced or maintained--we...
Oct 20, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
A few quick hits from The Nation's orbit this week:
Oct 19, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Happy Days? Happy Days?
Happy days are here again--if you're Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.
Oct 16, 2009 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Why Arianna Doesn’t Get It Why Arianna Doesn’t Get It
I admire Arianna Huffington. She is a strong, bold voice in our media firmament. But in the last few days, she has advanced an idea which, in my view, is wrong. She is urging Vice ...
Oct 16, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The House is on Fire The House is on Fire
It is now clear: our economy is shrinking, unemployment and underemployment are on the rise at nearly 20 percent, and a tsunami of foreclosures continues unabated--what we have on ...
Oct 13, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Burden & The Nobel The Burden & The Nobel
The choice has always been, as a former chair of the Nobel Peace Prize judging committee explained in 2001, " a political act." This year it was also an ingenious leap of...
Oct 11, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Around The Nation Around The Nation
Last Spring, Sebastian Jones was fact-checking in The Nation's modest Capitol Hill office as our DC intern, keeping track of the excitement (and corruption) in Congress. Like a sea...
Oct 11, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel