UN Slams US Drone Killings UN Slams US Drone Killings
A UN panel issues a blistering attack on the American policy of "extrajudicial killings," i.e., the drone attacks. Its author says that the US is opening a Pandora's...
Jun 3, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Letters Letters
Letter published in the May 3, 2010, issue of The Nation.
Apr 14, 2010 / Our Readers, D.D. Guttenplan, and Maria Margaronis
Haiti’s Excluded Haiti’s Excluded
How the earthquake aid regime sidelines those it intends to help.
Mar 11, 2010 / Feature / Reed Lindsay
NATO’s Role in the Afghanistan Escalation NATO’s Role in the Afghanistan Escalation
As part of an attempt to frame the surge as an important move towards negotiations with the Taliban, NATO countries are set to contribute 7,000 soldiers for the Afghanistan war.
Jan 27, 2010 / Feature / Tom Hayden
UN Diplomat Lost to Haiti’s Earthquake UN Diplomat Lost to Haiti’s Earthquake
Among the dead in Haiti are the UN workers who were trying to make the nation a better place.
Jan 22, 2010 / Feature / Dan Bischoff
Nation Pushes IMF to Cancel Haiti’s debt Nation Pushes IMF to Cancel Haiti’s debt
Amid mounting public pressure and calls for restructuring from The Nation, the IMF turns its $100 million loan to Haiti into a grant.
Jan 22, 2010 / The Rachel Maddow Show
IMF Clarifies Terms of Haiti’s Loan IMF Clarifies Terms of Haiti’s Loan
Last Friday I wrote about the IMF's new $100 million loan to Haiti. I cited debt relief activists who told me that the new loan would be an extension of the IMF's existing loan of ...
Jan 20, 2010 / Richard Kim
Helping Haiti Helping Haiti
The most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the country struck Haiti yesterday, causing catastrophic destruction in the hemisphere's poorest nation.
Jan 13, 2010 / Peter Rothberg
Reality Bites Reality Bites
The problem with the Copenhagen Accord: nature does not award points for trying.
Dec 22, 2009 / The Editors
Earth: Too Big to Fail? Earth: Too Big to Fail?
It's dumb machines, not the smart ones of Terminator 2, that could do us in.
Dec 21, 2009 / Feature / Rebecca Solnit