Waiting for Zelaya

Honduras's deposed president, Manuel Zelaya, camps out at the border while the military detains hundreds of protesters. Meanwhile, in an echo of the cold war, several political act...

Greg Grandin

Armageddon at the Top of the World: *Not*!

Paranoia over the Pashtuns along the Afghan border isn't unique to Washington, just to empire. The British had a case of it 100 years ago.

Juan Cole

Feingold: White House is Whistling Past Afghan Graveyard

In an exclusive interview with The Nation, Sen. Russ Feingold defends his lone vote to oppose the latest amendment to the Defense Authorization bill.

Jeremy Scahill

Iran’s Next Supreme Leader?

A top candidate to replace the ailing Khamenei is both a clerical traditionalist and a modernizer.

Babak Sarfaraz

Blackwater Seeks Gag Order

The private security company, facing charges in a US court for killing and injuring Iraqis, is attempting to silence its victims and their lawyers.

Jeremy Scahill

A Seat on the Bus?

Mass transit fares are going up and services are being cut. Meanwhile, federal stimulus money favors new projects over maintaining existing systems.

Ben Adler

Clinton Comes to India

On her first trip to India, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got some promises and some pushback on climate change and nuclear weapons.

Barbara Crossette

The New Truth-Teller

In naming Phil Angelides as chair of the new Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Congress has picked an aggressive, visionary reformer.

William Greider

Federal Judge Weakens Oversight of LAPD

Newly implemented reforms don't do enough to reverse a massive increase in the frisking of minority youths in the Los Angeles community.

Tom Hayden

Free Gaza–and Palestine

Last month the Israeli Navy seized a boat attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to blockaded Gaza and arrested its passengers, and received little international criticism.

Huwaida Arraf

Afghanistan Is Based on Lies and Illusions

The new film The Fixer, featuring The Nation's Christian Parenti, captures some edgy, fearful truths about the war in Afghanistan.

Ann Jones

Remembering Robert McNamara

The former secretary of defense presided over the deaths of millions--and was one of the only officials to express regret.

Jonathan Schell

…And a Law for Poor People

Obama wants to repeal many strictures on legal services funding. But more needs to be done.

Obama’s Faithful Flock

Obama promised to reverse the most egregious aspects of Bush's faith-based policies. So why is he extending them?

Sarah Posner

So Far From God, So Close to Wall St.

Mexico's troubles illustrate the destructive effects of NAFTA's neoliberal economics.

Jeff Faux

Dismantling the Temple

How to fix the Federal Reserve.

William Greider

Solaliquies

Rising to the dare of Martial Solal's mischievous piano playing.

K. Leander Williams

Borrowed Time: The World at 65

The tumultuous American Century in the lives of a father and son.

Tom Engelhardt

Afghanistan Is Based on Lies and Illusions

The new film The Fixer, featuring The Nation's Christian Parenti, captures some edgy, fearful truths about the war in Afghanistan.

Ann Jones

Fleeting Exchanges: Helen Levitt Remembered

Helen Levitt's idiosyncratic photographs.

Jana Prikryl

The Lost Years: On Haiti

The mutating tensions and alliances of postoccupation Haiti.

Madison Smartt Bell

Mixing History and Desire: The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy

A new collection of C.P. Cavafy's beautiful, musical poems.

Maria Margaronis

Ghost Poem

Laura Moriarty