Data-Mining Our Liberties Data-Mining Our Liberties
Despite blistering criticism of warrantless surveillance, the Bush Administration rammed a law through Congress that authorizes spying on our calls and e-mails. How did they get aw...
Learning to Love the Farm Bill Learning to Love the Farm Bill
The bipartisan farm bill making its way through Congress offers real hope to feed the hungry at home and abroad and improve nutrition for poor kids. But it faces a likely president...
Aug 7, 2007 / Feature / Matthew Blake
A Gay Debate? A Gay Debate?
On Thursday at 9PM (ET), Logo (the gay network owned by Viacom) and the Human Rights Campaign are sponsoring a Democratic Presidential forum on gay issues. Barack, Hillary, John, D...
Aug 7, 2007 / Richard Kim
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