The Afghanistan Americans Seldom Notice

When it's all over and we finally do leave, the Afghans of Bamiyan Province will be at least as poor as they ever were in what will remain a devastated country.

Pratap Chatterjee

A Conversation with Mauricio Funes

Mauricio Funes, president-elect of El Salvador, talks of the meaning of his recent victory, aspirations for his administration and the inspiration provided by the late Archbishop O...

Roberto Lovato and Josue Rojas

The Dragons, Their Dragoons

We need to organize our power to make our ideas correct.

Vijay Prashad

Imagine Otherwise

If we are to build a new world out of the ashes of the old, we need to imagine and organize in the most expansive and inclusive ways.

Lisa Duggan

The Necessary Eloquence of Protest

If these are near-to-the-end times, we must be as forthright about the need for disorder as were our populist and socialist ancestors.

Mike Davis

Why Africa Doesn’t Want Foreign Aid

Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo argues that aid actually undermines the social and economic fabric of the developing world.

Sonia Shah

Tell ‘The Nation’: The Recession Hits Home

Our readers report how the recession is changing life in the workplaces, homes and schools across the nation. Let us know what's happening in your community.

Our Readers

Pakistan in Turmoil

Pakistan's Chief Justice is restored after protests rock Lahore, but questions remain about the stability of President Asif Ali Zardari--and new challenges for the Obama administra...

Barbara Crossette

A Post-Capitalist Future is Possible

The current economic crisis probably won't be the magic intervention to usher in a new era, but there are opportunities to advance the socialist cause.

Doug Henwood

Rebuilding a Good Jobs Economy

In this deep economic crisis, we have an opportunity to set the bar higher. Let's not just stimulate the economy; let's rebuild it with good jobs.

Annette Bernhardt and Christine Owens

Obama’s Debt to New Orleans

The Democratic Party found its voice in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It owes the people of New Orleans a real recovery.

Melissa Harris-Perry and James Perry

Redefining National Security

Some military analysts are warning Obama that insurencies, revolts and economically driven instability could threaten our way of life. It's a path fraught with hazards.

Michael T. Klare

Can America Make a Deal to Save the Planet?

Despite inaction over the past eight years, the United States still has a chance to reclaim a leading global role in curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

Sophie Ragsdale

Philadelphia Rising

The mayor's budget plan would close libraries. The people say, Think again.

Robert S. Eshelman

Fixing the Fed

To restore the nation's broken financial system, Washington must reform the Federal Reserve.

William Greider

The Perfect Storm

The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations.

Eyal Press

Lingo: What Child Is This?

This is Lingo, a new occasional column about language. Is language acquisition uncanny or orphic?

Ange Mlinko

The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills

A half-century later, re-evaluating the works of C. Wright Mills, in The Politics of Truth.

Norman Birnbaum

A Tough Flower Girl: On Norman Maclean

In Norman Maclean's stories, tragedy comes garlanded in a prose style nearly unsurpassed for its bright flashes of remembrance, its whispers out of time.

Philip Connors

Back Talk: Elaine Showalter

A conversation with the author of A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx.

Christine Smallwood

Sallow, Queer, Sagacious: Lincoln Through the Ages

A new anthology of essays captures the many faces of Lincoln over the decades.

Brenda Wineapple

Philadelphia Rising

The mayor's budget plan would close libraries. The people say, Think again.

Robert S. Eshelman

‘Nation’ Note

Arthur C. Danto steps down as art critic of The Nation but continues as a contributing editor.

The Editors

Longing of the Accords

John Ashbery