The Nation

With heating oil expected to be 36% more expensive, natural gas twice that amount, and LIHEAP funding lower than it was in the 1980s, there are grave warnings that the northeastern U.S. could be facing a "frozen Katrina" this winter.

Friends of the Earth president Brent Blackwelder and journalist James S. Henry believe that the federal bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac needs to come with some very green strings attached.

As part of a series of articles in The Nation on a New "New Deal", Bill McKibben argues that we need a huge investment of labor and money into green initiatives.

Robert Pollin & Heidi Garrett-Peltier writing in The Nation show that the U.S. has spent hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq that could have been much more productively invested in public goods like sustainable infrastructure.

Protests over the extension of a magnetic levitation train line are evidence of an increasing trend of NIMBYism in China.

Having been particularly targeted by subprime mortgage lenders, neighborhoods with a majority of African American households are bearing the brunt of the housing crisis.

Maintaining and rebuilding America's infrastructure could cost over $1 trillion. What's needed is the political will to create a "Federal Infrastructure Bank".

In transportation, energy, and green technology the U.S. is falling behind, writes Nicholas Von Hoffman.

The American transportation system is not only dated, but it also has a huge impact on the climate. The favored solution -- ethanol -- is no solution at all, writes New York Observer columnist Nicholas von Hoffman.

How environmental activism has changed.

Official neglect, prejudice, cronyism and political inertia are crippling reconstruction efforts in the Gulf states, writes Mike Davis.

The Nation magazine outlines their leadership, architecture and planning 'dream team' for rebuilding New Orleans.

The election of former union organizer Antonio Villaraigosa as Los Angeles' next Mayor is part of a new progressive political force in America's cities.

A new urban political movement called "Cities for Progress" is encouraging progressive politics at a local level to address issues facing cities and at the same time counter federal -- and largely rural -- conservatism.

Establishing a military base on the site of the ancient city of Babylon called a "reckless act of cultural vandalism."

While Henry Ford chose to pay his workers enough to afford his cars, Wal Mart's market is in lower income shoppers and pays their workforce accordingly. How to keep growing? Create more poverty.

Peter Dreier discusses the growing poverty in America's suburbs and its possible political consequences.

The Nation reviews Jane Jacobs' book Dark Age Ahead.

Has urban commentator David Brooks "cleverly packaged himself" as right-winger with a kinder, gentler sensitivity?

Beth Shulman argues that for over 30 million Americans, jobs fail to help meet basic needs.