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
Joshua Kors : Injured veterans continue their battles at home while fighting for the healthcare treatment they deserve.
Lizzy Ratner : After Katrina, white parishes are zoning minorities right out of the reconstruction.
Ari Melber : Citing security concerns, the Pentagon frowns on soldiers blogging about Iraq.
Stephen F. Cohen : The freeing of the "zeks" confronted Russia with living memories of the Terror.
: Eight years ago, the people gave the GOP the keys to the country. It's time to take them back.
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It could have been worse--a lot worse.
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Dems and the Constitution, dispatches from Denver, journos rescue our correspondent in Georgia.
Victor Navasky
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Moving to the center to woo undecided voters, Obama risks losing his greatest asset: authenticity.
John Nichols : Minnesota's message to the GOP: we're all better off when we look after one another.
William Deresiewicz : Salman Rushdie probes the limits of the imagination to produce his most coherent and readable novel.
David Schiff
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A recent production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is a grim masterpiece of opera noir.
Alexander Provan : Pollster John Zogby's new book illuminates the changing nature of American values and lives.
Alexander Cockburn
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The initiating party for our next cold confrontation with Russia most certainly was the United States.
Katha Pollitt : Will the Hillary diehards follow her lead and support Barack Obama?
Missed some of the big speeches at the Democratic convention in Denver? Check out Obama's promise to America and more.
David Moberg : Meet Working America: a self-declared mass organization with a working-class base and a strategy to win.
Tom Hayden : It was a barely good week for the antiwar movement in Denver; peace voters face huge challenges in the election season ahead.
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.
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.
Center For Emerging Media : Rev. Jackson makes an impassioned appeal for Obama's candidacy, arguing that we're experiencing 'a mountain-top moment in America's history.'
John Feffer : We thought we'd averted apocalypse. Instead, by tinkering on the edges while basically maintaining the status quo, a different kind of apocalypse, the slow-motion kind, is now upon us.
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.