Lessons From the Tonkin Gulf Lessons From the Tonkin Gulf
From the Nation archives, the late senator and onetime editor of this magazine recalls his lonely stand against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, approved by Congress August 7, 1964, ...
Aug 7, 2007 / Feature / Ernest Gruening
The Divider The Divider
When asked by George Stephanopoulos in the Sunday Republican debate to list his mistakes, Rudy Giuliani replied, "George, your father is a priest. I can explain it to your father,...
Aug 7, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
End of the Affair End of the Affair
The Nation Cruise drops its final anchor and its highly politicized passengers head for home.
Aug 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Annabelle Gurwitch
The War on Infrastructure The War on Infrastructure
Describing the recent bridge failure and steam-pipe explosion as "cowardly attacks on our way of life," Bush today opened a new front in his permanent war on everything.
Aug 6, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Bush to Karzai: Will You Just Shut Up About Iran? Bush to Karzai: Will You Just Shut Up About Iran?
Things got a little testy at the Camp David Summit between Afghan President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and American President George Bush. Karzai, who when he is in the U.S. is e...
Aug 6, 2007 / John Nichols
Mea Culpa Time Mea Culpa Time
It's a bad Sunday when I don't agree with Frank Rich. His brilliant, elegant New York Times column has consistently and mercilessly exposed the cruelty, folly and hypocrisy of gove...
Aug 6, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
At YearlyKos, Netroots Come of Age At YearlyKos, Netroots Come of Age
Hillary filibustered them, Obama wooed them, Edwards took them seriously. Now that the Democratic establishment is paying heed, can the netroots remain true to their egalitarian ro...
Aug 6, 2007 / Feature / Ari Melber
An Overwhelming Vote for Waste, Earmarks and Corruption An Overwhelming Vote for Waste, Earmarks and Corruption
In a Congress where it has become fashionable to gripe about earmarks of a few hundred thousand dollars to pay for small-town museums and urban parks – and, until last week, for...
Aug 5, 2007 / John Nichols
Blogging While Female Blogging While Female
So far today I've watched Hillary Clinton take unscripted questions in a small room, seen Barack Obama wow a separate crowd of inquisitors, had Mike Gravel smartly answer somethin...
Aug 5, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Lieberman v. Feingold and the Constitution Lieberman v. Feingold and the Constitution
During Friday's debate in the US Senate on various proposals to alter the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Connecticut's sort-of-Democrat, sort-of-Independent, but always lo...
Aug 4, 2007 / John Nichols