Stephen Cohen: In Kiev, We Can’t Ignore the Fascist Minority Stephen Cohen: In Kiev, We Can’t Ignore the Fascist Minority
This week, Nation contributing editor Stephen Cohen appeared on the John Batchelor Show and The O'Reilly Factor to discuss the geopolitical stakes of the unrest ...
Feb 19, 2014 / Press Room
How US Aid Fosters Human Rights Violations in the Philippines How US Aid Fosters Human Rights Violations in the Philippines
As the human rights situation has deteriorated, US military aid has ramped up.
Feb 19, 2014 / Vanessa Lucas, Azadeh Shahshahani, and Foreign Policy In Focus
Ukraine’s Deadly Crackdown Stokes Tensions Between the US and Russia Ukraine’s Deadly Crackdown Stokes Tensions Between the US and Russia
It’s a tragedy made worse by America’s overreaching.
Feb 19, 2014 / Bob Dreyfuss
Sochi Unofficially Bans Protest (Unless You’re an American Homophobe) Sochi Unofficially Bans Protest (Unless You’re an American Homophobe)
The brief detention of Pussy Riot members is only the latest in a series of oppressive arrests at this Olympics.
Feb 18, 2014 / Alec Luhn
Misremembering America’s Wars, From Vietnam to Iraq Misremembering America’s Wars, From Vietnam to Iraq
The Pentagon’s whitewashed history of the Vietnam War provokes troubling questions about how the invasion of Iraq will one day be remembered.
Feb 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Nick Turse
Edward Snowden Is Not a ‘Traitor’ and Glenn Greenwald Is Not an ‘Accomplice’ Edward Snowden Is Not a ‘Traitor’ and Glenn Greenwald Is Not an ‘Accomplice’
If anything, reporting on the NSA’s overreach has revealed just how dangerous to our freedoms the agency’s surveillance practices really are.
Feb 18, 2014 / Robert Scheer
Just How Easy Is it for the President to Kill an American Citizen? Just How Easy Is it for the President to Kill an American Citizen?
It’s still possible to remember, almost nostalgically, how the Fifth Amendment used to guarantee Americans due process.
Feb 18, 2014 / Peter Van Buren
Obama Plans to Escalate the War in Syria Obama Plans to Escalate the War in Syria
But the hard reality is that it's time to give up on regime change in Damascus.
Feb 18, 2014 / Bob Dreyfuss
Meet Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN’s Middleman on Syria Meet Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN’s Middleman on Syria
Thanks to the deft negotiations of this veteran UN troubleshooter, tensions have eased in the Geneva peace talks.
Feb 18, 2014 / Barbara Crossette
The Sochi Games Are Being Held on the Land of Genocide The Sochi Games Are Being Held on the Land of Genocide
“Sochi is the land of Circassians. They can’t hide this anymore.”
Feb 17, 2014 / Dave Zirin