Chalabi’s Lobby Chalabi’s Lobby
Lobbyist Charles Black, now embroiled in controversy as a senior advisor to John McCain, was among those who aided Ahmed Chalabi's deceptive campaign for war in Iraq.
Apr 3, 2008 / Feature / Aram Roston
All Aboard the McCain Express All Aboard the McCain Express
The conservative noise machine is coming around to support him--if it can keep its stories straight.
Apr 3, 2008 / Feature / Rick Perlstein
Where Credit Is Due Where Credit Is Due
To view education as a profit-making business is to attack the lifelong love of learning.
Apr 3, 2008 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Blowing Smoke Blowing Smoke
In Nicholson Baker's cut-and-paste history, the "good war" is bad.
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Noted. Noted.
Henry Paulson's pitiful reform; Michelle Bachelet, bedeviled by Opus Dei; Pentagon follies; and indecency in Indiana.
Apr 3, 2008 / The Editors
On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination
The race is theirs to lose.
Apr 3, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Dems Flunking Trade 101 Dems Flunking Trade 101
As Clinton rewrites the history of her support for NAFTA, Obama needs to prove he understands what's wrong with global trade pacts.
Apr 3, 2008 / John Nichols
Shown Up by Sadr, Again Shown Up by Sadr, Again
To the humiliation of the US and Iraqi governments, the cleric's forces have faced down the Iraqi Army and are in control of Basra and half of Baghdad.
Apr 3, 2008 / Patrick Cockburn
Guantánamo Endgame Guantánamo Endgame
New revelations of political interference in the prosecution of Gitmo prisoners shows Team Bush scrambling to keep one step ahead of history--and of criminal charges.
Apr 3, 2008 / The Editors
Letters Letters
Readers weigh in on our endorsement of Obama, our coverage of terrorism and our grammar.
Apr 3, 2008 / The Nation