Against Counterinsurgency Against Counterinsurgency
The recently released report of the Afghanistan Study Group affirms The Nation's long-held belief that American military disengagement in Afghanistan, combined with a new diplomati...
Sep 9, 2010 / The Editors
Obama Calculates Israel-Palestine Timing to Short-Circuit AIPAC Obama Calculates Israel-Palestine Timing to Short-Circuit AIPAC
Will Abbas declare Palestine an independent state if talks fail? And if so, how would Obama react?
Sep 7, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Unstable Iraq May Draw Obama Back to War Unstable Iraq May Draw Obama Back to War
President Obama has pledged to get the rest of US forces out of Iraq in 2011. But Iraq is still unstable and politically explosive, and it is increasingly in Iran's orbit. All that...
Sep 1, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Pakistan: A Global Flood Pakistan: A Global Flood
Pundits are pushing aid to Pakistan because it's good PR. Does anyone really think that if US helicopters drop water bottles in the south of Pakistan it will cancel the hatred for ...
Aug 26, 2010 / Jonathan Schell
US Dodges Obligation to Help Iraqi Women Trafficked into Sexual Slavery US Dodges Obligation to Help Iraqi Women Trafficked into Sexual Slavery
The burgeoning sex industries in Syria and Jordan are thriving because of the Iraq War. The US could speed resettlement for Iraqi women who are trafficked—but it hasn't.
Aug 19, 2010 / Sebastian Swett and Cameron Webster
America Plagued by Periodic Paranoia America Plagued by Periodic Paranoia
Our country has a pattern of losing its mind over issues that later turn out to be insignificant.
Aug 17, 2010 / Press Room
Pentagon Rings Alarm Over China’s Military Pentagon Rings Alarm Over China’s Military
DOD's latest report rehashes old concerns—including many from the Bush administration—while raising new ones.
Aug 17, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Mosque Mania Mosque Mania
There is a distinct creepiness to the controversy now raging around a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan.
Aug 10, 2010 / Stephan Salisbury
Women, the Taliban and That ‘Time’ Cover Women, the Taliban and That ‘Time’ Cover
Whatever reason the United States has for being in Afghanistan, it has nothing to do with the plight of Afghan women.
Aug 9, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama’s Plan for Iraq is the Petraeus-Bush Iraq Plan Obama’s Plan for Iraq is the Petraeus-Bush Iraq Plan
"The idea that Obama is making good on a campaign promise to end the war is playing with words,” says The Nation's Jeremy Scahill.
Aug 3, 2010 / Democracy Now!