Immunity Watch: Senate Considers Illegal Spying Immunity Watch: Senate Considers Illegal Spying
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee convened a hearing on President Bush's spying bill, which could validate warrantless domestic surveillance, immunize potential crimes by teleco...
Oct 31, 2007 / Ari Melber
Alaska Warms to The Nation Alaska Warms to The Nation
In this cut from Blue Man/Red State,a documentary on Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, Juneau peace activists give Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel a warm welcome and a help...
Oct 31, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Memphis Is Also America Memphis Is Also America
The civil rights movement that erupted in 1968 revealed in a few swift weeks white America's failure to respond to the nonviolence of Dr. King, and black America's recoil into desp...
Oct 31, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Pat Watters
Cashing In on Terror Cashing In on Terror
What a boondoggle 9/11 has been for the merchants of war.
Oct 31, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Che Lives…on a T-Shirt Che Lives…on a T-Shirt
What progressives should know about Cuba's most iconic revolutionary.
Oct 31, 2007 / The Nation
DEM DEBATE: Edwards, Not Obama, Hits Clinton Hardest, Smartest DEM DEBATE: Edwards, Not Obama, Hits Clinton Hardest, Smartest
It was supposed to be the night Barack Obama took Hillary Clinton down. But, when all was said and done, Obama was a bystander. The opening question in Tuesday's Democratic presi...
Oct 31, 2007 / John Nichols
SOA Protest Draws Scant Support From Candidates SOA Protest Draws Scant Support From Candidates
As the eighteenth annual demonstration against the Army's School of the Americas nears, we quiz Democratic hopefuls on whether they would shut it down. Their answers are not encour...
Oct 30, 2007 / Feature / Patrick Mulvaney
Give Us This Day Our Daily Debt Give Us This Day Our Daily Debt
As the superrich get richer, the rest of us sink deeper into debt. But when American consumers can no longer consume, our whole system falls apart.
Oct 30, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Going Postal: Arguing for Media Diversity, Debate & Democracy Going Postal: Arguing for Media Diversity, Debate & Democracy
Those of us at The Nation have been banging on for some months about the issue of postage rates. In particular, we've been expressing deep concern about the radical restructuring ...
Oct 30, 2007 / John Nichols
Benazir Bhutto’s Defining Moment Benazir Bhutto’s Defining Moment
She alone can mobilize Pakistan's poor with promises of democracy, development and free, fair elections. But does she have the power to ward off US meddling and stop Pakistan's sli...
Oct 30, 2007 / Feature / Graham Usher