• Democracy Inaction

  Congress

  Christopher Hayes: Nothing brings left and right together like a Big Government intervention on behalf of Big Money.

• Boston Tea Party, 2008

  Congress

  Robert Scheer: Fear-mongering pundits and pols question the patriotism of lawmakers and taxpayers who oppose the bailout. They've got it all wrong.

• End of Iraq's Awakening?

  Iraq War

  Robert Dreyfuss: A new and growing Sunni resistance movement in Iraq could shatter the false sense of post-surge calm--and it might get Russian support.

• The Truth Can Move Us Forward

  September 11

  Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich: We suffer not only from the loss of innocent life on 9/11, but because the attacks became the rationale for an unjust war. It's time to face the truth.

• Fatal Distraction

  U.S. Economy

  Alexander Cockburn: Obama's responses to the crises of the war and the failing economy are so flimsy, no wonder the GOP has so handily changed the subject.

• The Secret Behind the Surge

  Iraq War

  Tom Hayden: Bob Woodward's new book on the Bush years in Iraq raises the possibility that extrajudicial killings--not the surge--were the biggest factor in reducing violence.

• War Is Personal

  Iraq War

  Eugene Richards: A 25-year-old certified medic, home from Iraq, can't escape the horrors of war.

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• America Needs a New New Deal

  U.S. Economy

  Katrina vanden Heuvel & Eric Schlosser: We should apply FDR's principles of relief, reform and reconstruction to our current financial crisis.

• Blood in the Caucasus

  Russia

  Katrina vanden Heuvel: It's time for the US to dissolve its cold war military alliances and develop realistic new policies toward Russia.

• Progressives in the Obama Moment

  Presidential Election 2008

  Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel: Here's how progressives can ensure Obama's success.

• Solzhenitsyn's Life and Our Times

  Russia

  Katrina vanden Heuvel: Despite the controversies he aroused in the West and in Russia, Solzhenitsyn remains above all else a writer who bore witness to Soviet society's long-censored suffering.

• Woman in the House

  Congress

  Katrina vanden Heuvel: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks about politics, sexism, impeachment, Obama, and her own personal VP pick.

• Pushing Limits--and Proud of It

  Humor

  Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Nation has a long history of publishing images even some of our staunchest fans find offensive. Just ask our cartoonists.

• Democracy on the Net

  Internet & New Media

  Katrina vanden Heuvel: An online guide to organizations working to build a more perfect union.