For America's Sake
Bill Moyers : Its time our leaders recognize Americans hold a set of values that contradict the conservative agenda that has dominated politics for a generation.
Bob Moser on John Edwards, Bruce Shapiro on Saddam's hanging, poet Peter Gizzi on Mathew Brady's photographs.
Articles
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Top 10 for a More Perfect Union
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Ten good bills await passage that could make a real difference.
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Ten Blockbuster Hearings
Chuck Collins : Tell us how progressives in Congress can promote bold new initiatives, end an illegal war and call an abusive President to account.
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Oversight Returns
John Nichols : A Congress that takes the Constitution seriously can force the White House to do the same.
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Blue-ing the West
Sasha Abramsky : Democrats are on the verge of a fundamental shift in the regional balance of political power.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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The Democrats' First Test
: Do the Dems have the vision to force Bush to pull back on Iraq and rebuild the economy?
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The Saddam Spectacle
Bruce Shapiro : A videotaped hanging does not bring justice to Saddam's victims, living or dead.
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Ford, Nixon, The Nation
Victor Navasky : The story behind the story of Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon.
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Destabilizing the Horn
Salim Lone : Undeterred by blunders in Iraq, Bush opens another battlefront in Somalia.
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Johnny Populist
Bob Moser : John Edwards's hard-edged populism could be an antidote to the surreal Bush years.
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A Democratic Anomaly
John Nichols : When senators leave office, voters should choose their replacements.
Reviews
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music
Moving On Up
Jeff Chang : Jay-Z, self-styled savior of hip-hop, is the face of the new establishment.
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book
Hurricane Carter
Henry Siegman : Jimmy Carter has been vilified for saying things about the occupation in his new book that appear regularly in Israeli newspapers.
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film
The General in His Labyrinth
Stuart Klawans : Reviews of Guillermo del Toro's dizzying Pan's Labyrinth and part two of Clint Eastwood's World War II opus, Letters From Iwo Jima.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Another New Policy for Iraq
Calvin Trillin : Once again, God help us, Bush follows his gut.
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BEAT THE DEVIL
Greater Than Warren Harding?
Alexander Cockburn : On Gerald Ford's greatness and the New York Times's ghastly coverage of Iraq.
Web
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Iraqi Civilians Brace for a Surge
David Enders : Sunni civilians have reason to fear more fighting, not only from a potential surge of US troops but also Kurdish militias mobilized by the Iraqi government.
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An Army at Peril
Nicholas von Hoffman : The surge is Bush's last throw of the dice. If it fails, he may decimate an exhausted Army and leave the nation without reserves.
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Ominous Signs of a Wider War
Michael T. Klare : The naming of Adm. William Fallon to replace Gen. John Abizaid as head of Centcom is an ominous sign that Bush is preparing for a wider war.
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Howl
Tax the Rich, End the War
Nicholas von Hoffman : Congress should levy a Victory Over Terror tax on the superrich which would expire once our troops are safely home.
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Activism on Stage
Opinion: A dramatic interpretation of Rachel Corrie's life raises questions about what we can learn from an activist abruptly separated from her cause.
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Khalilzad: Good News and Bad for UN
Ian Williams : Zalmay Khalilzad promises be a more effective US ambassador to the UN, but is that a good thing?
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Inciting Anger Is Not Enough
Opinion: The alternative media, and the Left in general, have succeeded in inciting anger. Now it's time to inspire people to take action and give them tools to make specific changes.
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In the (Israeli) Army Now
In Israel, where military service is mandatory for nearly everyone, even the most progressive young people tend to see war as a given.
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TruthDig
Bush's Theater of the Absurd
Robert Scheer : Bush is the insolent star of an absurd spectacle, seeking to escalate a failed war that Congress and the people oppose.
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New Jersey Could Kill the Death Penalty
Patrick Mulvaney : The Garden State has become the center of gravity in the fight to abolish capital punishment.
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Incarceration Nation
Silja J.A. Talvi : America now leads the world in the number of people behind bars. But hope is emerging that state governments and the courts will seek to hold back the hand of the carceral state.
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Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007
John Leonard : Celebrating the eloquence of the feminist, activist and writer in whose work memory, history, poetry and prophecy converge.
Cover by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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