Kaiser Kidney Fiasco Kaiser Kidney Fiasco
If the confusion and miserable performance that has resulted from the Republicans' Prescription Drug giveaway to the HMO's and insurance companies wasn't enough to demonstrate the...
May 4, 2006 / The Nation
Mission (Really) Not Accomplished Mission (Really) Not Accomplished
President Bush and his acolytes continually suggest that the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq are "success stories" that just have not receiving proper attention from the U.S. ...
May 4, 2006 / John Nichols
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Reviews of four stellar films: Three Times, Art School Confidential, Lady Vengeance and Army of Shadows.
May 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Discovery/The Nation ’06 Prizewinners Discovery/The Nation ’06 Prizewinners
Works by Nicky Beer, Sandy Tseng, Eric Leigh and Shara Lessley, winners of the Discovery/The Nation Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize.
May 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Grace Schulman
Love Letters Love Letters
Richard Lingeman's Double Lives explores the richness of friendships between such literary lions as Hawthorne and Melville, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and Kerourac, Ginsberg and Cas...
May 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Baldwin
On the Corner On the Corner
Times Square may be the most dynamic urban space of the twentieth century, but you wouldn't know it from reading Marshall Berman's On the Town.
May 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Margolick
On Native Grounds On Native Grounds
Alan Taylor's Divided Ground examines how land-grabbing settlers destroyed Indian society and how postrevolutionary politicians speeded their demise.
May 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Saudi Arabia, a Kingdom Divided Saudi Arabia, a Kingdom Divided
September 11 marked a turning point in the history of Saudi Arabia, raising new questions about political repression, religious extremism and the future of its youth.
May 4, 2006 / Feature / Alain Gresh
Women and Warlords Women and Warlords
A policy of "affirmative discrimination" helped put twenty women in the Afghan Parliament, but how can they confront the warlords and criminals who hold most of the power?
The Motherhood Manifesto The Motherhood Manifesto
Mothers in America are in serious need of a new deal to remedy a profound wage gap with other working women and men, and an outdated family support structure.
May 4, 2006 / Feature / Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner