Designated Driver Designated Driver
Sometimes, if you want to get reality straight, it pays to read pieces in our press with care and to the end. Take a recent New York Times piece by Richard A. Oppel Jr., headline...
Sep 5, 2006 / The Nation
Appease Your Thirst Appease Your Thirst
Two weeks ago, we asked readers of thenation.com to submit new definitions for an updated Dictionary of Republicanisms. In that time, we've had hundreds of sharp and hilarious sug...
Sep 5, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dead as Horse Meat Dead as Horse Meat
Immigration reform is off until after the '06 elections. Security and mortgage moms are bolting the GOP. The conventional wisdom in Washington is that Democrats will take back the...
Sep 5, 2006 / The Nation
What a New Mason-Dixon Poll Reveals What a New Mason-Dixon Poll Reveals
A new and interesting poll out of the Florida governor's race suggests how (1) a broad-based, quasi-populist economic message has legs this election season; and (2) how those 2004...
Sep 5, 2006 / The Nation
Christian Conservatives for Domestic Violence? Christian Conservatives for Domestic Violence?
When a raft of state defense of marriage amendments (DOMAs) passed in 2004, observers (including yours truly) warned that such amendments would not just ban gay marriage but also ...
Sep 5, 2006 / The Nation
Fight For the Internet Freedom Heats Up Fight For the Internet Freedom Heats Up
Congress is about to return to Washington this week after taking a long summer break for campaigning and before taking a long fall break for campaigning. During the brief period ...
Sep 4, 2006 / The Nation
Too Late for Empire Too Late for Empire
Thirty years after Watergate, we again face a constitutional crisis at home and a misconceived war abroad. The United States will remain a helpless giant until we finally learn tha...
Sep 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
Rocky Anderson, Folk Hero? Rocky Anderson, Folk Hero?
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's cachet is growing in the wake of a stem-winding speech in which he called the President to account for lies and ineptitude in Irag, castigated...
Sep 1, 2006 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Lessons for Labor Day Lessons for Labor Day
CEO's in the oil and defense industries are making out like profiteering bandits. Wages for American workers are declining while their productivity is rising. Recent polls show ...
Sep 1, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Challenging the Culture of Obedience Challenging the Culture of Obedience
Through lies, ineptitude and immoral policies, the Bush Administration has led the nation to the brink of disaster, ruined our reputation and sowed hatred that will take generation...
Sep 1, 2006 / Ross C. Anderson