The Hindsight Factor

Will America's nuclear waste repository ever open, and, more important: should it?

The unfolding catastrophe justifies humanitarian intervention by the United Nations. But it is politics, not nature, that most imperils the Burmese people now.

Naomi Klein Nothing threatens a repressive government more than a natural disaster.

Eyal Press In the past two years, the GOP's dream of a permanent majority has become a nightmare.

John Nichols Judging by their voting patterns in the primaries, crossover Republicans may swing the presidential election for Barack Obama.

Eric Alterman Pundits embrace the fantasy of Hillary Clinton's candidacy as foolishly as they embraced the Iraq War.

Katie Gaughan via Campus Progress A year after the shootings at Virginia Tech, policy-makers are pursuing measures that might sacrifice student privacy for a superficial feeling of safety.

Travel writer Henry Alford hopped aboard a recent Nation Cruise to Alaska and reviewed it for the New York Times.

Dinner with Rev. Jesse Jackson. An intimate acoustic concert with Jackson Browne. Cocktails with Katrina vanden Heuvel. What's going on? The eleventh Nation Cruise sets sail for the Caribbean December 14.

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