How the VA Abandons Our Vets
Joshua Kors : Injured veterans continue their battles at home while fighting for the healthcare treatment they deserve.
David Schiff on Benjamin Britten, Victor Navasky on being a convention junkie, the Editors on Joe Biden
Articles
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New Orleans Redraws Its Color Line
Lizzy Ratner : After Katrina, white parishes are zoning minorities right out of the reconstruction.
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Web War
Ari Melber : Citing security concerns, the Pentagon frowns on soldiers blogging about Iraq.
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Stalin's Victims Return
Stephen F. Cohen : The freeing of the "zeks" confronted Russia with living memories of the Terror.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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We'll Take It From Here
: Eight years ago, the people gave the GOP the keys to the country. It's time to take them back.
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The Biden Bid
: It could have been worse--a lot worse.
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Noted.
: Dems and the Constitution, dispatches from Denver, journos rescue our correspondent in Georgia.
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The Illusory Middle
Victor Navasky : Moving to the center to woo undecided voters, Obama risks losing his greatest asset: authenticity.
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Twin Cities Values
John Nichols : Minnesota's message to the GOP: we're all better off when we look after one another.
Reviews
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Meetings, Purchases, Pleasures
William Deresiewicz : Salman Rushdie probes the limits of the imagination to produce his most coherent and readable novel.
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The Plot Against Grimes
David Schiff : A recent production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is a grim masterpiece of opera noir.
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Poll Position
Alexander Provan : Pollster John Zogby's new book illuminates the changing nature of American values and lives.
Columns
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Toward a New New Cold War
Alexander Cockburn : The initiating party for our next cold confrontation with Russia most certainly was the United States.
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Hillary Does the Right Thing
Katha Pollitt : Will the Hillary diehards follow her lead and support Barack Obama?
Crossword
Web
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Sarah Palin's Frontier Justice
Patricia J. Williams : Her appeal to a certain sector of the electorate lies in her willingness to take the law in her own hands--and use public power as a personal weapon.
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TruthDig
Alaska's Windfall Profits
Robert Scheer : Why is it a good thing for Alaskans to get a cut of exorbitant oil company profits, but not the rest of us, if we are all part of one nation?
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Fiction
Our Man Countryman
Gary Phillips : This Week: Ex-black ops agent Dieter Countryman comes to terms with a life misspent as the very dogs of chaos he helped unleash come back to bite him.
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Moral Compass
The Problem Is Empire
Tom Hayden : The challenge to the peace movement is not to liberalize the empire; the task is to peacefully and steadily bring it to an end--and make democracy safe for the world.
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Will Black Ever Be the New Black?
Black is never out of style--except when it comes to skin color.
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Hip Hop VP: A Q&A With Rosa Clemente
Talking with the Green Party nominee for Vice President.
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Taking On the Democratic Party Machine
State Rep. Tony Payton is part of a growing movement of committed, young progressive outsiders working to bring the Democratic Party back to the people.
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Blue-Collar Republicans
Christopher Hayes : The Republican Party has set itself firmly against the agenda of the labor movement. So to observe Labor Day in St. Paul was a strange experience indeed.
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Juno From Juneau
Max Blumenthal : A startling look at the GOP's reaction to the unwanted pregnancy of Sarah Palin's daughter.
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A Noun, A Verb and POW
Brave New Films : A former POW who served alongside McCain, criticizes the candidate's temperament and use of their experiences for political gain.
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Winning in November
VideoNation & Brett Story : What issues must the Democrats champion in order to win in the general election in November?
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Radio Nation With Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : The Nation's Bob Moser, John Nichols and Roberto Lovato discuss what progressive economic and immigration policy should be.
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Hello, God: About the Hurricane
Michael Moore : OK, God, we know James Dobson asked his followers to pray for rain on Obama in Denver last week. But this storm in New Orleans isn't what anybody had in mind.
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Impressions from Denver
VideoNation & Brett Story : Cutting through the spin and the stagecraft, Nation correspondents on the scene in Denver report on their experiences at the Democratic convention.
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America's Promise: The Best of the DNC
Missed some of the big speeches at the Democratic convention in Denver? Check out Obama's promise to America and more.
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How to Cover the GOP
Eric Alterman : Since they got all the megastories wrong in Denver, here's a primer for the media horde as they descend on St. Paul.
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Labor's New Push
David Moberg : Meet Working America: a self-declared mass organization with a working-class base and a strategy to win.
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Peace Voters Face New Challenges
Tom Hayden : It was a barely good week for the antiwar movement in Denver; peace voters face huge challenges in the election season ahead.
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Diary of an Obama Delegate
Cynthia Baughman : I came to the DNC as a middle-aged female Obama delegate eager to make peace with Hillary women, and I did not get off to a good start.
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Reviving the Constitution
Center For Emerging Media : Nation publisher emeritus Victor Navasky, Rep. Robert Wexler and Rep. Keith Ellison discuss how the Democrats can best restore and maintain our constitutional rights.
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson Comes to Denver
Center For Emerging Media : Rev. Jackson makes an impassioned appeal for Obama's candidacy, arguing that we're experiencing "a mountaintop moment in America's history."
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Apocalypse Later
John Feffer : From 2016, a futurist looks back on 2008, where the seeds of the slow-mo apolcalypse now consuming the planet were planted.
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Crossword Classic #15
Frank W. Lewis : From the January 24, 1948, issue.
Cover photograph of Sgt. Juan Jimenez, courtesy of Jimenez; design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels.
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