Ideas for a New Era
The Editors : Barack Obama Administration
It's time for progressives to create coalitions and craft smart strategies that will push Obama and the new Congress to seize this moment.
The Editors : Barack Obama Administration
It's time for progressives to create coalitions and craft smart strategies that will push Obama and the new Congress to seize this moment.
Anatol Lieven : Russia
The Obama administration simply cannot afford a confrontation with Russia, given the challenges we face elsewhere.
Juan Cole : Iraq War
The removal of US troops must be prompt, complete and coupled with smart diplomacy.
John Nichols : U.S. Economy
Xavier Becerra, Obama's pick for US trade representative, could bring the change working people here and abroad can believe in.
The Editors : India
There is no military solution to the crisis in South Asia. It falls to Barack Obama to create a new path out of the deepening Afghan-Pakistan crisis.
Alexander Cockburn : India
Why is it so hard for lawmakers, media and moguls to take moral responsibility?
Robert Scheer : Economic Policy
As he drives his team of retreads, the challenge for Obama is to remain the agent of change who electrified the nation.
Tom Hayden : Iraq
The US-Iraq Security Pact signals the war is ending--though not soon enough--and challenges peace activists to broaden their agenda against new quagmires.
Michael T. Klare : George W. Bush Administration
Because of the hubris of Bush and Cheney, we face a world of multiplied dangers, emboldened challengers and a paucity of reliable allies.
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Barack Obama
A fantasy lineup of progressive advisors to help the next president end war, repair alliances and rebuild the economy.
Mark Mazower : Non-Fiction
Four authors examine the evolution of the social sciences and how academic theorizing impacted global affairs before and after Vietnam.
The Editors Here's what's really at stake in this election, for America and the world.
Barbara Crossette : Pakistan
Pervez Musharraf is history, but his opponents seem unable to agree on what to do next. After so many disappointments, can Pakistan rise to the occasion?
Mark Weisbrot : Bolivia
Evo Morales expanded his mandate with a landslide victory in a referendum last week. But the Washington foreign policy establishment still won't acknowledge he's delivering on his promises.
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Russia
It's time for the US to dissolve its cold war military alliances and develop realistic new policies toward Russia.
Andrew J. Bacevich : US Wars & Military Action
The United States did not reinvent war after 9/11. It only thought it did.
Mark Ames : Russia
Russia's war in Georgia excites John McCain and the same neocons who led us into earlier disasters.
Patrick Cockburn : Barack Obama
An Iraqi government desperate for credibility could receive no better gift than Obama's exit plan.
Robert Dreyfuss : Foreign Affairs
He's no George W. Bush, but will Obama's foreign policy bring us back to the days of the bipartisan, establishment consensus?
Stephen F. Cohen : Presidential Election 2008
Overshadowed by the US disaster in Iraq, Moscow's impact on our foreign policy will continue long after that war ends. Why aren't Obama and McCain addressing that?
Countdown : Presidential Election 2008
The Nation's Christopher Hayes discusses the tone-deafness of the McCain campaign and the reemergence of Rudy Giuliani as a GOP attack dog.
Michael Massing : Non-Fiction
After railing against non-violent intervention in the face of genocide, Samantha Power rethinks her stand.
The Editors
Despite the Bush/McCain snake oil on Mideast policy, Obama can make the case that talking to your enemies isn't the same as appeasing Hitler.
Michael T. Klare : Environment
The Pentagon has now placed resource competition at the center of its strategic planning.