The Spy Who Loved Me The Spy Who Loved Me
Reviews of The Lives of Others and Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams.
Feb 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Kill the Death Penalty Kill the Death Penalty
The time has come for the US to join the rest of civilized nations and abolish capital punishment.
Feb 9, 2007 / Sunil Dutta
Wall Street Whining Wall Street Whining
In response to the massive loss of unionzed, relatively well-paid manufacturing jobs in the US, the barons of Wall Street (Bob Rubin, et al) generally respond with thinly veiled c...
Feb 9, 2007 / The Nation
Pelosi, Planes and Partisan Propaganda Pelosi, Planes and Partisan Propaganda
Republican apologists for the Bush administration's failed fight in Iraq and their amen corner in the media have been looking for something, anything, to distract the American pub...
Feb 9, 2007 / John Nichols
The Rich Get Greedier The Rich Get Greedier
Most Nation readers couldn't have missed ExxonMobil's recent announcement that in 2006 it reaped the largest annual profits of any corporation in history--39.5 billion dollars. B...
Feb 9, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Ethnomusicologists Against Torture Ethnomusicologists Against Torture
Professional associations can be unaccountable, self-interested and reactionary. (It was the American Medical Association that almost single-handedly killed national health insura...
Feb 8, 2007 / The Nation
Terror at the Nixon Library Terror at the Nixon Library
A new exhibit inadvertently displays why Americans might be confused about what terrorism is and how to fight it.
Feb 8, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Libby Trial: Prosecution Rests–Strongly Libby Trial: Prosecution Rests–Strongly
It was Hail Mary time for Ted Wells, an attorney for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, as the prosecution moved toward resting its case in the perjury trial of Vice...
Feb 8, 2007 / David Corn
Not Your Father’s Antiwar Activist Not Your Father’s Antiwar Activist
Vote Vets, a coalition that includes 1,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, produced some of the most gripping ads of the 2006 cycle, denouncing the war in Iraq and Republicans ...
Feb 8, 2007 / The Nation
Got Vote? (continued) Got Vote? (continued)
Last week the Democratic National Committee, in an effort led by the DNC Voting Rights Institute Chairwoman Donna Brazile, voted unanimously to support legislation that would fina...
Feb 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel