Nation Topics - Tom Brokaw | The Nation

The cost of turning away from war's horrific realities.

Creating jobs for artists--good for the economy and even better for the imagination.

Love and frustration behind the cameras of a TV news set.

Far more than all the other bad things that have happened during the Bush years, our current financial crisis makes me feel that the American empire is in ruin.

His nostalgic PBS series casts WWII as acrucible of meaning. Too bad it lacked a tighter focus on the moral failure of combat.

What if the Twin Towers hadn't collapsed? Would the Bush Administration have so easily advanced its fear-inspired "war on terror" without the images that played on a culture's secret fears?

Check out Eric Alterman's new book, When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences, (Viking Penguin). Click here for info and to purchase copies.

On March 9, 2003, a distinguished group of high-ranking politicians and journalists descended on the Bryant Park Hotel to attend a wedding reception for the then-executive editor of the New Yo

On March 19, shortly after Saddam Hussein defied President Bush's
deadline to go into exile, Tom Brokaw of NBC broke into Law & Order,
airing on the East Coast, to announce the start

Among the approximately 150,000 people who took to the streets of New York on March 22 to protest the US invasion of Iraq were six Nation interns.