Bono’s Anti-Chavez Video Game Bono’s Anti-Chavez Video Game
The New York Post's Page Six reports that Bono , supposed savior of the world's disenfranchised, has, through his private equity firm, invested in a video game which depicts Venez...
Jul 10, 2006 / The Nation
Mexico’s Electoral Cliffhanger Mexico’s Electoral Cliffhanger
The fate of Mexico is undetermined at this hour, but this much we know:Don't take at face value what you read in the leading Americannewspapers about Mexico's cliffhanger election...
Jul 10, 2006 / The Nation
Abramoff Returns Abramoff Returns
Jack Abramoff lives! When's the last time you heard his name? Washington had almost forgotten the disgraced lobbyist. Luckily the Secret Service hadn't. New logs released over th...
Jul 10, 2006 / The Nation
The New American Cold War The New American Cold War
The cold war never really ended: Russia's continuing instability and weapons of mass destruction, combined with Washington's triumphalist foreign policies and US/NATO military buil...
Jul 10, 2006 / Stephen F. Cohen
Watada, the War and the Law Watada, the War and the Law
Bolstered by a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked the Bush Administration's excessive exercise of power, Lieut. Ehren Watada's pending court-martial could help restore the rule of l...
Jul 10, 2006 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
The American Political Tradition The American Political Tradition
American foreign policy is shaped by a myth of national righteousness. In two new books, Peter Beinart abuses history to suggest liberals embrace this myth, while Stephen Kinzer us...
Jul 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Bacevich
David Brooks–Just Another Joe Lieberman Fan David Brooks–Just Another Joe Lieberman Fan
David Brooks had a laughable column in Sunday's New York Times. "What's happening to Lieberman can only be described as a liberal inquisition," Brooks proclaims. What Brooks ch...
Jul 10, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Recruiting Hatred Recruiting Hatred
The world's greatest military is no longer what it once was. Soldiers in Iraq are being charged with rape, premeditated murder and cold-blooded massacres. Troops with severe men...
Jul 7, 2006 / The Nation
A Subpoena for Rumsfeld A Subpoena for Rumsfeld
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld can't be bothered with a $30 Billion defense procurement scandal; nor will he respond to a Congressional inquiry into retaliation against an Abu Ghraib ...
Jul 7, 2006 / The Nation
Nation and NY Times: Bay of Pigs Deja Vu Nation and NY Times: Bay of Pigs Deja Vu
"The assault on a free press ...should be recognized for what it is," wrote New York Times columnist Frank Rich last Sunday. "Another desperate ploy by officials trying to hide t...
Jul 6, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel