Esther Kaplan on Massey Energy and mine safety; John Nichols on WikiLeaks and collateral murder

When it comes to the military budget, peacenik right and left are on the same side.

Obama has conducted two major reviews of Afghan policy; Karzai's new intractability calls for a third.

Under Obama, accountability for rights violations during the "war of terror" has been thin.

In his poems, Mahmoud Darwish greeted even his own name warily, knowing it was something else he'd be forced to leave behind.

This year's Whitney Biennial fails to address the question of which art pertains to our time rather than any other.

Perry Anderson deftly punctures the EU's self-serving myths, but his own pieties make him a better prosecutor than judge.

What's his deal?

At last, a believable sighting of that peace president many of us thought we had elected. Give Barack Obama credit, big time, for the startling progress he has made in tempering the threat of nuclear annihilation.

Russ Feingold and Jim McGovern are expected to introduce legislation as early as next week calling for a "flexible timetable" for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.

US war-fighting numbers to knock your socks off.

It's been a frustrating time since November 2008. Our challenge is not to bemoan our disappointments but to continue to engage with the political process.

Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell discuss American involvement in Vietnam and Afghanistan, US nuclear policy from the 1960s to the present and the dilemma of nuclear weaponry in the Obama era.

David Carr calls the idea that good watchdog media can be funded by the government "frankly preposterous."

Justice John Paul Stevens recently confirmed that he will retire from the Supreme Court this summer. Here are some of The Nation's top choices for a replacement.

Is the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority a "radical bean counter" or savior of the two-state solution?

Offering banks incentives to prevent foreclosures isn't working. The Obama administration needs to start mandating mortgage modifications.

Runner Caster Semenya showed up to race this week and the International Association of Athletics Federations wouldn't let her--when Semenya's only "crime" is that she may be intersex.