McChrystal’s Rise: More Secrets, Less Daylight

His new role can only mean an intensified campaign of secret--and dirty--warfare in the remote villages of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Tom Hayden

In the Name of Pat Tillman: Good Riddance to Stanley McChrystal

In "honor" of the ignominous end of the career of Lt. General Stanley McChrystal, at the hands of Rolling Stone magazine, let's take a moment to remember why Lt. Gen. ...

Dave Zirin

Raising the Baby Question

There's a palpable disconnect between moms and young feminists. What will this mean for the next generation as they begin to raise children of their own?

Nona Willis Aronowitz

Lobbying for Autocrats

A senator and congressman argue that free trade is the best way to improve US relations with Russia and Georgia. What's in it for us?

Mark Ames

David Simon, Arianna Huffington and the Future of Journalism

Fools look for a fight between newspapers and the net. The challenge is to defend print and digital journalism, in an age of big-media myopia.

John Nichols

Missing in Action on Healthcare?

The Obama administration is focused on cutting healthcare costs, but that may be easier said than done.

Trudy Lieberman

Tennessee Spill: The Dredge Report

The TVA's efforts to clean up after its massive coal ash spill may create even more health hazards.

Kelly Hearn

Understanding the Long War

A "Long War" may be underway in South and Central Asia and the Middle East that could last fifty years. Only a fifty-year commitment to peace can prevent it.

Tom Hayden

A Day Without Tourists: Tijuana Versus the Plague

What Mexico, now the picture of hell to many of us, looks like through local eyes from a Chevy Silverado.

Mike Davis

The Palestinian Paradox

When I interviewed Salam Fayyad in Ramallah at the end of February, he was a worried man--and with reason.

Helena Cobban

Change Socialists Can Believe In

The Nation's forum on the future of socialism continues.

Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr.

The Future of the American Dream

The good times, as we have known them, are not coming back. Americans need a new vision that helps them deal with new economic realities.

William Greider

Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis’s Narnia

Laura Miller's study of C.S. Lewis falls short of providing a coherent theory of Narnia's magic.

Jordan Davis

Red Harvest: The KGB in America

A new book on cold war espionage falsely accuses I.F. Stone of being a paid Soviet agent.

D.D. Guttenplan

The Going

April Bernard