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Obama Hints He'll Resist McChrystal

Robert Dreyfuss: President Obama seems to be hesitant about announcing yet another escalation in Afghanistan.

Obama Golfs with Tom Friedman
9:03 ET
Poll: Is the President Overexposed?
12:37 ET
Trumka's Promise of 'Solidarity Forever'
Kristof's Challenge

What Obama Should Be Saying

John Nichols: The president's Sunday talk show grand slam revealed he is still pulling punches with regard to a robust reform.
- Leslie Savan: Media Overplays 'Overexposure' Card
11:01 ET
The Domestic Existentialist

Natasha Wimmer: Mercè Rodoreda's fiction plumbs a sadness borne of helplessness, an almost voluptuous vulnerability.
- Jefferson Decker: Operation Rollback

Is America Hooked on War?

Tom Engelhardt : US Military

The United States is coming ever closer to a state that matches the Orwellian slogan from 1984: war is peace.
Feature

Slide Show: The Far-Right Fringe

: Conservatives & The American Right

Images of those who seek to obstruct, undermine and smear progressives--while posing a threat to democracy.
Repairing Our Broken Justice System

Gara LaMarche : Law & Justice

We need to change the sorry frame of the debate over judges and the role the judicial system plays in our democracy.
Can We? A Brief History of American Racism

Melissa Harris-Lacewell

The American story is about our struggles with racism. How will this chapter end?
The Crusade Against Sex Trafficking

Noy Thrupkaew : Human Rights

Do brothel raids help trafficking victims escape abuse, or skirt the reality that makes recovery so difficult for the "rescued?"
Hold Ashcroft Accountable

David Cole : John Ashcroft

The Ninth Circuit rules that John Ashcroft can be held accountable for the "paradigm of prevention" that led to unlawful detainment of a US citizen.
The World and Pittsburgh

John Nichols : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability

At the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, activists will push the United States to back proposals to regulate CEO compensation and require corporate responsibility.
When Money Talks

The Editors : Advertising

The Supreme Court is poised to overrule decisions restricting corporate speech in political campaigns.
Noted.

The Editors : Political Analysis

Norwegians vote for "social-democratic paradise;" Rep. Joe Wilson's lie turns lucrative; why are all the taxpayers at the 9/12 march white?
Get Happy

Walter Mosley : Government

Americans deserve a government agency charged with fostering the pursuit of happiness.
Emotional Rescue

Stuart Klawans : Film Reviews

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum, Jane Campion's Bright Star
Welcome to the National Asylum

Alexander Cockburn : Conservatives & The American Right

"Birthers'" claims shift, but their essence is always the same: Barack Obama has no right to be president.
The African Airlift

Karen Rothmyer : African-Americans

The 1960 "airlift" of 800 African students to study in the United States lent a crucial boost to John F. Kennedy's popularity among African-Americans.

» The Notion

Media Blitz Continues As Obama Golfs 18 Holes With Tom Friedman
Ari Melber

Media Overexposes 'Obama Is Overexposed' Complaint
Leslie Savan

Where's the Norma Rae of Healthcare?
Laura Flanders

What Obama Should Be Saying About a Public Option | The president's Sunday talk show grand slam revealed he is still pulling punches with regard to a robust reform.
John Nichols
37 Comments
Posted at 11:45 ET

» The Dreyfuss Report

Obama Hints He'll Resist McChrystal | Does the president realize that Afghanistan is a quagmire?
Robert Dreyfuss
40 Comments

» Editor's Cut

A Shifting Debate on Afghanistan | It's time to call your legislators and demand change in Afghanistan--an exit strategy, no additional troops and a date for withdrawal.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
111 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | Charles Pierce: Does anyone honestly believe that this White House has acted in good faith?
Eric Alterman

» Act Now!

Demanding a Public Option | Arkansas has turned into a crucial battlefield in the fight for healthcare reform.
Peter Rothberg
73 Comments

» Capitolism

Rohrabacher to Iraqis: Be More Grateful! | Republican congressman chides member of Iraqi government for his society's "bloodlust."
Christopher Hayes
94 Comments

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DEADLINE POET

A Year Later, Little Change on Wall Street

Calvin Trillin : Ode to a bailout.

Anatomy of Wilson's 'You Lie' Outburst

Saturday Night Live

What if all the GOP congressmen were supposed to yell 'you lie' but changed their minds at the last minute while Joe Wilson was in the bathroom? More »
Lewis Black Takes on Angry Outbursts

The Daily Show

Has 2009 been the year of the angry outburst? Lewis Black breaks down recent bad behavior from Joe Wilson, Kanye West and Serena Williams as only he can. More »
Republicans Run for the Border

The Rachel Maddow Show

The Nation's Chris Hayes illuminates the repercussions that will result from the right's continued praise for Joe Wilson's false claim. More »
Racism Tarnishes News Coverage

GRIT TV

How did the mainstream media cover this week's Iranian election, tea-bagger rally in DC or former President Carter's comment about racism and politics in the US? More »

The Unauthorized 9/12 Teabagger Tour

Max Blumenthal & AlterNet

Nation contributor Max Blumenthal captures the protest's atmosphere of ignorance by interviewing the rally's most delusional attendees. More »
The Right Reacts to Racism Allegations

Countdown

Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell discusses the importance of President Carter's remark that racism has played a role in the opposition to Obama's agenda. More »
Stewart Slams Beck, Tea Party Protesters

The Daily Show

Jon Stewart reveals the not-so-subtle hypocrisy of Fox News' laudatory coverage of the so-called '9-12 movement' and tea party events held in the nation's capital. More »
Obama Is Fired Up About Healthcare

MSNBC

The Nation's Ari Melber on Obama's speech to the AFL-CIO which seemed to inspire the president's populist side and showed an eagerness to engage with the public. More »

Our Columnists

From the print edition

SUBJECT TO DEBATE

Kristof's Challenge

Katha Pollitt
BEAT THE DEVIL

Welcome to the National Asylum

Alexander Cockburn
DEADLINE POET

A Year Later, Little Change on Wall Street

Calvin Trillin
BENEATH THE RADAR

A Method to Their Madness

Gary Younge
LOOKOUT

The Tel Aviv Party Stops Here

Naomi Klein
THE LIBERAL MEDIA

Harvard, Heal Thyself (Why Journalism Matters)

Eric Alterman
DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR

Reverse Nazism and the War on Universal Healthcare

Patricia J. Williams

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Books & The Arts

Reviews, essays, poems and more

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A Domestic Existentialist

Natasha Wimmer : Mercè Rodoreda's fiction plumbs a sadness borne of helplessness, an almost voluptuous vulnerability.
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Operation Rollback

Jefferson Decker : How did Wal-Mart become so successful that its merciless economic model could threaten its own bottom line?
film

Emotional Rescue

Stuart Klawans : Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum, Jane Campion's Bright Star
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Speak as Little as Possible

Rachel Aviv : Novelist Clarice Lispector idealized animals and idiots because they were free of the desire to translate experience into words.
Back Talk: Jarvis Cocker

Christine Smallwood : A conversation with the former frontman of Pulp about the sound of music in the digital era.
To Sleep, Perchance to 'Sleep and Think'

Ange Mlinko : Conlangs often succeed only in stripping language of its surprise.
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Right On

Kim Phillips-Fein : Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right's resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?
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Cornucopia Blues

Brent Cunningham : How will the good-food revolution move beyond its evangelical phase?
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Aracataca and Sucre

William Deresiewicz : Will narrowed on a single object and fixed in the face of adversity--such is the recurring story of Gabriel García Márquez's work and life.
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Pattern Recognition

Akiva Gottlieb : A new volume of essays shows Hollis Frampton leaving behind photography for film.