Wide Stance Wide Stance
Meet California Congresswoman Cynthia Kang, a woman of considerable political ambition, and some secrets. Episode 1 of an ongoing online political mystery.
Dec 27, 2007 / Feature / Gary Phillips
State of the World 2008 State of the World 2008
The United Nations' chief troubleshooter and mediator, Lakhdar Brahimi, considers what should come next in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan and how US foreign foreign policy went so far ...
Dec 24, 2007 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
Muqtada al-Sadr’s Power Grab Muqtada al-Sadr’s Power Grab
The bad boy of Iraqi politics is going back to school. al-Sadr's plan to become an ayatollah has enormous implications for Iraqis and the United States.
Dec 21, 2007 / Feature / Mohamad Bazzi
About Facebook About Facebook
As the old concept of privacy fades and a new one arises online, what is being lost?
Dec 20, 2007 / Feature / Ari Melber
Divided States Divided States
A patchwork of local laws reflects the complicated, contradictory national debate over immigration policy.
Dec 20, 2007 / Feature / Peter Schrag
South Carolina: Inside the ‘Black Primary’ South Carolina: Inside the ‘Black Primary’
As Clinton and Obama square off in South Carolina, a window opens on the fractured state of black politics. It's been an extended soul search. And it ain't over yet.
Best of The Nation 2007 Best of The Nation 2007
It was a year of alarming news and amazing reporting on the Iraq War, the rise of private mercenary firms, the burgeoning business of disaster capitalism, an ever more vulnerable e...
Dec 19, 2007 / Feature / Joan Connell
A Hoax Exposed at Princeton A Hoax Exposed at Princeton
When a strait-laced Princeton student claimed he was attacked by liberal thugs, the conservative establishment rallied around him--until it turned out to be a lie.
Dec 18, 2007 / Feature / Max Blumenthal
USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program
A plan to implant farm animals with electronic tracking tags gives corporate agriculture a monopoly on the future of food, and it has sparked political backlash in rural America.
Dec 14, 2007 / Feature / William Pentland and David E. Gumpert
Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King
The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.
Dec 14, 2007 / Feature / Michael Gould-Wartofsky