• The Communist Manifesto Turns 160

  History

  Barbara Ehrenreich: As Karl Marx's opus marks a big birthday, capitalism seems willing to mark the occasion by dropping dead.

• Main Street Marches on Wall Street

  Activism & Organizing

  Lucas Mann: As economic turmoil continues over the proposed bailout plan, activists put pressure on Congress.

• 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.

• Turning Point in the Gang Crisis

  Youth Violence

  Tom Hayden: Will the missing issues of gangs, poverty, dropouts, the inner city and policing redefine the presidential debate?

• 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.

• The New Humanitarian Order

  War & Peace

  Mahmood Mamdani: Recent war crimes charges against the Sudanese president reveal the rights-based politics of the world's "new humanitarian order."

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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.