The Nation

WikiHaiti: Leaked US Cables Paint Portrait of Brutal, Ineffectual and Polluting UN Force

WikiHaiti: Leaked US Cables Paint Portrait of Brutal, Ineffectual and Polluting UN Force

As the renewal date for the UN mission in Haiti nears, WikiLeaks cables reveal a litany of MINUSTAH's failures.

Posted October 6, 2011

Wisconsin Drive to Recall Walker Starts November 15

Wisconsin Drive to Recall Walker Starts November 15

Activists say they will begin the process of booting anti-labor Republican Scott Walker. But the governor and his allies are putting pressure on the board that oversees elections.

Posted October 11, 2011

Another Racial Misstep for Perry?

Another Racial Misstep for Perry?

Rick Perry’s campaign, beset by a report that his hunting ranch had a racist name, makes a questionable scheduling decision.

Posted October 11, 2011

Books and the Arts

To see humanitarianism everywhere is not to see it at all.

The Origins of Political Order, a work of total world history, pits the old Fukuyama against the new.

Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Fatale, Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write About This Place, Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The History of Costaguana

News and Analysis

In some of the worst violence since the revolution, a peaceful march of mostly Coptic Christians was brutally attacked by Egyptian security forces, leaving 25 people dead and 300 injured.

Naomi Klein

The task of our time is to insist that we can afford to build a decent society—while at the same time, respect the real limits to what the earth can take.

Because you spoke out twenty years ago, women no longer shrug off sexual harassment—we press charges.

The OWS phenomenon has inspired millions. If it links up with the slow, difficult work of movement-building, it can bring about systemic change.

Occupy DC

The Wall Street protesters have created the template for an ambitious new occupation in the nation’s capital.

Anita Hill hearing

She put sexual harassment on the map, but twenty years later, more than half of all high school and college age women report being harassed.
 

Barack Obama

Facing a primary challenger might force Obama to embrace progressive ideals—and he can’t win 2012 if he doesn’t.

Marine LePen

The new leader of the National Front has risen in the polls by borrowing arguments from the left. But critics worry: has she turned against her father’s bigotry, or merely made it more presentable?