South Asia Without Osama bin Laden South Asia Without Osama bin Laden
Bin Laden's death offers President Obama a chance to end the war in Afghanistan and to prevent one in Pakistan.
May 12, 2011 / Graham Usher
Noted. Noted.
Liliana Segura on Obama's immigration policy, D.D. Guttenplan and Maria Margaronis on the UK's faltering Liberal Democrats, and Frank Askin on electoral reform in New Jersey.
May 12, 2011 / Various Contributors
The Fatah-Hamas Accord The Fatah-Hamas Accord
The agreement to end the schism between the two Palestinian factions reflects the profound political changes underway in the Middle East.
May 12, 2011 / Mouin Rabbani
Honoring Baltasar Garzón Honoring Baltasar Garzón
The Spanish judge who dared to hold brutal human rights violators to account is now fighting for his legal career.
May 12, 2011 / David Cole
Fantasy Islands Fantasy Islands
When the lines between fantasy, desire, action and intent have been so blurred, the thought itself becomes the crime.
May 12, 2011 / JoAnn Wypijewski
Nation Notes Nation Notes
We’re pleased to announce that Liliana Segura will be joining our staff as associate editor. Liliana, a former senior editor at AlterNet, where she was responsible for civil liberties and international coverage, was most recently a Wallace Global Fund Fellow, where she researched and wrote about prisons and harsh sentencing. Richard Kim, formerly senior editor, is now executive editor of TheNation.com, where he will be overseeing the website’s expansion and redesign. Mark Sorkin is now copy editor/associate editor, and senior editor Richard Lingeman has returned from leave.
May 12, 2011 / The Editors
After Osama bin Laden After Osama bin Laden
The purpose of terrorism is to provoke an irrational response that makes a nation less secure and less free. In the wake of 9/11, America became that place. Can we change course?
May 5, 2011 / The Editors
After Osama bin Laden’s Death, an End to ‘Bad Guys’ After Osama bin Laden’s Death, an End to ‘Bad Guys’
It's time to banish our dangerously-simplified us-versus-them mentality and recognize the world as it is: shot through with suffering and complexity.
May 5, 2011 / Chris Hayes
Noted. Noted.
Jeff Biggers on student protests in Arizona, John Nichols on Canada's New Democratic Party, and Kate Murphy on FAIR's twenty-fifth anniversary.
May 4, 2011 / Various Contributors
Osama’s Assassins Osama’s Assassins
Meet the Special Operations unit that killed Osama bin Laden.
May 4, 2011 / Jeremy Scahill