Electronic Pen

Gerald Caplan The president's trip to Ghana proves that despite his African heritage he still has a lot to learn about the continent's history.

• Emira Woods: Africa's New 'Oil Gulf'

Katrina vanden Heuvel While Gen. McChyrstal launches a plan that may require thousands of additional troops in Afghanistan, antiwar sentiment grows in Britain.

John Nichols With new revelations about the former veep ordering the CIA to lie to Congress, Democrats have finally begun talking about an investigation that could hold him to account.

Jeff Kisseloff As the civil rights organization celebrates its 100th anniversary, a look at the role The Nation's founder played in its creation.

• Oswald Garrison Villard and the NAACP

Emira Woods Ghanaians and other Africans are clamoring for a new direction in US Africa policy, one based in mutual interests and mutual respect.

A.C. Thompson Television news reports are casting new light on the violence that flourished in New Orleans in the anarchic days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Babak Sarfaraz Supporters of the Green Wave increasingly see negotiations with the regime as the best way out of today's crisis.

Greg Kaufmann The Republicans may now be 'the party of no,' but it remains to be seen who exactly the Democrats are.