I never thought I'd say this--but thank God for Barbara Walters. I have been waiting patiently for the election's narrative to shift from pigs wearing lipstick to the issues, but I never thought that the usually grating hosts of The View would help s...

In case you were too busy watching the Sunday morning news shows, Roger Federer won the French Open yesterday, tying Pete Sampras' record of fourteen career grand slams and solidifying his claim to being the greatest tennis player of all time....

Barack Obama stumbled at one point in his introduction of his vice presidential pick, telling the crowd in Springfield that he had come to "introduce you to the next President…the next Vice President of the United States of America: Joe Biden."

This morning we sent out our end of year fundraising appeal. You can read the full text here but the gist of it is this: 'The Nation' is facing a significant budget shortfall, at a moment when support for investigative journalism is collapsing. The...

We all know states are hemorrhaging jobs, gutting services and even facing bankruptcy in some cases. More layoffs loom on the horizon. As former Labor Secretary Robert Reich describes it, as a result of the economic crisis, "state...

President Obama has made the wrong decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan--at a cost of $1 million per soldier, or $30 billion a year. What we need is not more war but attention to problems like poverty which so often play a role in...

It's Jobs Summit Day at the White House, and here's hoping it creates real momentum for a bold jobs bill that the people of this nation desperately need. You know the bleak statistics--10 percent unemployment, underemployment at 17.5...

Tonight President Obama will announce his new Afghanistan policy. By all accounts it will be one of military escalation. This is a tragic moment--both for the nation and his presidency--and it is one I had hoped the President would avoid by...