Slide Show: Firestone’s ‘State Within a State’ in Liberia Slide Show: Firestone’s ‘State Within a State’ in Liberia
For over 85 years, Firestone’s massive rubber plantation in western Liberia has operated as a state within a state, not only serving as the second largest employer in a count…
Jul 19, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation
Huge Fly Swatter, No Flies: Top Secret America’s Vast Counterterrorism Machine Huge Fly Swatter, No Flies: Top Secret America’s Vast Counterterrorism Machine
Literally millions of Americans are employed to battle Osama bin Laden and his minions, a Post series reports, arrayed against a threat that barely exists.
Jul 19, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
More Kabuki-ism More Kabuki-ism
Responses to Eric's marathon Obama article and an open letter to Benjamin Netanyahu.
Jul 15, 2010 / Eric Alterman
How Prepared Are We for the Next Great Flu Breakout? How Prepared Are We for the Next Great Flu Breakout?
Why we're losing the war against influenza.
Jul 15, 2010 / John M. Barry
From Black to Black From Black to Black
Traveling along the Danube into the heart of the new Europe.
Jul 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Dimiter Kenarov
A Forest of Fathers A Forest of Fathers
Did liberal principles or sectarian impulses mobilize Lebanon's "Cedar Revolution" to protest against the Syrian regime?
Jul 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Elias Muhanna
That Iranian Nuke Spy: Was He Pressured to Fabricate Intelligence? That Iranian Nuke Spy: Was He Pressured to Fabricate Intelligence?
It's unlikely that Shahram Amiri was kidnapped and tortured. But it's not out of the question that he didn't want to be part of a propaganda campaign involving exaggerated or fake ...
Jul 14, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Free the Cuban Five! Free the Cuban Five!
The time is ripe to correct this injustice, now that Cuba has begun to release its own political prisoners.
Jul 13, 2010 / Wayne S. Smith
Death on Your Doorstep Death on Your Doorstep
What Sebastian Junger and Restrepo won't tell you about war.
Jul 13, 2010 / Nick Turse
Resetting Spy Scandals Resetting Spy Scandals
The alacrity with which the spy swap was carried out shows just how keen Obama is to continue the US-Russia "reset" policy.
Jul 13, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel