Women’s Rights are Human Rights, Iranian Edition Women’s Rights are Human Rights, Iranian Edition
Via Feministing comes awful news from Iran. For participating in a banned rally for women's rights in June,2006, twenty-four year old Delaram Ali has been sentenced to 34 mon...
Jul 6, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Killing the Money Primary Killing the Money Primary
July 4th's Washington Post featured a front-page story about how campaign contributors heavily favored Democrats in the three-month period that ended last weekend, giving three do...
Jul 6, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cheney on the Defensive Cheney on the Defensive
Dick Cheney has been a destructive force on the checks and balances of American government for more than six years. He has subverted long-standing processes, procedures, protocols...
Jul 6, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
A Clinton Spy Scandal? A Clinton Spy Scandal?
When news of the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program became public, Senator Hillary Clinton called the eavesdropping "strange" and "far-fetched.&qu...
Jul 6, 2007 / Ari Berman
Reclaiming Sports Reclaiming Sports
Political struggle and its relation to sports is a question not of the past but of the future.
Jul 6, 2007 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Weird Religion, Anglican Edition Weird Religion, Anglican Edition
According to two senior Church of England bishops, recent terrible floods in the UK are expressions of God's wrath at excess consumption -- or possibly excess gayfriendliness...
Jul 5, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Creating a Foundation Creating a Foundation
Co-written by Emily Greenhouse For the last few years students have been steadily debunking the old saw that young people are politically apathetic. Young people might not be nea...
Jul 5, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Independence Day for Libby Independence Day for Libby
Liberated from having to serve time for his crime, he shares a perch with Bush and Cheney, somewhere high above the law.
Jul 4, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Tom Paine’s 4th of July Advice for Congress Tom Paine’s 4th of July Advice for Congress
The Fourth of July ought surely, and above all else, to be a celebration of Tom Paine's resolve. As the American colonies moved tentatively toward the fateful declaration of inde...
Jul 4, 2007 / John Nichols
Five for the Fourth Five for the Fourth
As my boss and Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel wrote in Editor's Cut, The Nation's "definition of patriotism is fighting to make sure your country lives up to it...
Jul 3, 2007 / Peter Rothberg