Time to Choose Time to Choose
Eight Nation contributors make the best case for their candidate.
Nov 8, 2007 / Feature / The Nation
Of Lies, Catfights and Rock ‘n’ Roll Of Lies, Catfights and Rock ‘n’ Roll
Official lies have always been with us. But our political life--as depicted by Maureen Dowd, among others--has been poisoned by the even more insidious unrebuttable lie.
Nov 8, 2007 / Column / Eric Alterman
Judicial Activism in a Time of No Irony Judicial Activism in a Time of No Irony
Contemplating Mukasey, Musharraf and the imprisoned lawyers of Pakistan: how easily a modern liberal democracy can slide into a totalitarian state.
Nov 8, 2007 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Nation Notes Nation Notes
Farewell, David Corn, and best of luck in your new venture. Welcome, Christopher Hayes to The Nation's Washington bureau.
Nov 8, 2007 / The Editors
Reading Lincoln in Pakistan Reading Lincoln in Pakistan
Pervez Musharraf wraps himself in Lincoln's mantle, but no one is fooled.
Nov 8, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
75 Years Ago FDR Read the Results Right, and Took a Left Turn 75 Years Ago FDR Read the Results Right, and Took a Left Turn
Seventy-five years ago today, the American people rejected not just a president -- Herbert Hoover -- but a royalist vision of federal policymaking that had allowed tens of million...
Nov 8, 2007 / John Nichols
All Cowboys Out Now All Cowboys Out Now
Firms like Blackwater operate in a demand-based industry, and it is this demand that must be cut off.
Nov 8, 2007 / Jeremy Scahill
Noted. Noted.
Peter Rothberg on extremist judges, Peter C. Baker on Radiohead.
Nov 8, 2007 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Musharraf’s Emergency Musharraf’s Emergency
If the United States is so keen on spreading democracy and fighting radical Islamists, why does it continue to back a leader who has suspended the Constitution and gone to war with...
Nov 8, 2007 / Graham Usher
Voting for Torture Voting for Torture
By approving Michael Mukasey's nomination for Attorney General despite his evasions on waterboarding, the Senate has led us all across a dangerous line.
Nov 8, 2007 / The Editors