Hamas Idiotically Calls Osama bin Laden ‘Holy Warrior’ Hamas Idiotically Calls Osama bin Laden ‘Holy Warrior’
The Palestinian Islamist group condemned the killing by US forces of Osama bin Laden and mourned him as an “Arab holy warrior.”
May 2, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
Full Text: Pakistan’s First Official Comment on OBL’s Death Full Text: Pakistan’s First Official Comment on OBL’s Death
US says Pakistan was not informed in advance of the raid on Bin Laden's compound.
May 2, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
Full Text: White House Briefing on Bin Laden Killing Full Text: White House Briefing on Bin Laden Killing
Just after midnight, a senior US official describes the operation that eliminated Al Qaeda's leader.
May 2, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama’s Political Coup: He Heads Toward 2012 as the President Who Did What Bush Could Not Obama’s Political Coup: He Heads Toward 2012 as the President Who Did What Bush Could Not
Forget trumping Trump with the long-form birth certificate. President Obama's announcement that he ordered a successful mission to kill Osama bin Laden is likely to yield political...
May 2, 2011 / John Nichols
Bin Laden’s Dead: Good Job, CIA! Now, Let’s Get Out of Afghanistan Bin Laden’s Dead: Good Job, CIA! Now, Let’s Get Out of Afghanistan
And which side is Pakistan on?
May 2, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss
With Osama bin Laden Dead, It’s Time to End the ‘War on Terror’ With Osama bin Laden Dead, It’s Time to End the ‘War on Terror’
President Obama's call to Americans to remember that “justice has been done” is an opening to seize. It is time to stop defining the post-9/11 struggle against stateles...
May 2, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Breakdown: Is Syria on the Brink of Revolution? The Breakdown: Is Syria on the Brink of Revolution?
Political analyst Joshua M. Landis explains why the Syrian president's recent concessions are too little too late for a burgeoning protest movement that's interested in more than p...
Apr 29, 2011 / Chris Hayes
Didn’t We Fight a Revolution to Rid Ourselves of This Royal Family—and Its American Imitators? Didn’t We Fight a Revolution to Rid Ourselves of This Royal Family—and Its American Imitators?
The whole point of the American experiment was to rid ourselves of royalism. So how did we end up with so many monarchical governors?
Apr 29, 2011 / John Nichols
This Week: America’s Longest War. PLUS: The Trump Sideshow This Week: America’s Longest War. PLUS: The Trump Sideshow
This week, The Nation welcomes Liliana Segura as Associate Editor. Ari Melber and Melissa Harris-Perry weigh-in on the Trump sideshow, and Bernie Sanders stops by The Na...
Apr 28, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Nation Conversations: Andy Worthington on the Guantánamo Files Nation Conversations: Andy Worthington on the Guantánamo Files
The release of previously classified reports on the US military's Guantánamo detainees has resuscitated stories of horror and suffering that have been largely forgotten in r...
Apr 28, 2011 / The Nation