California Death Penalty Melt-Down California Death Penalty Melt-Down
It's getting rather macabre up in San Quentin's death chamber. For two nights in a row convicted killer Michael Morales was scheduled to die by lethal injection. Two times he didn'...
Feb 22, 2006 / Marc Cooper
Alice Walton’s Fig Leaf Alice Walton’s Fig Leaf
Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her Arkansas museum with America's cultural treasures--a fig leaf that seeks to cover Wal-Mart's naked greed and exploit...
Feb 21, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit
Revisionist History Revisionist History
Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book The End of History was arguably the most influential post-Cold War neoconservative tract. But for some time Fukuyama's been uneasy with his fellow neoc...
Feb 21, 2006 / Ari Berman
Juan Cole, the UN and Iraq Juan Cole, the UN and Iraq
Juan Cole's invaluable blog is of special interest today. Cole calls for the United Nations to set a clear timetable for US withdrawal from Iraq. He says it is an important opportu...
Feb 21, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Elegy for GM–and Ourselves Elegy for GM–and Ourselves
When General Motors goes down, it will take us all down with it.
Feb 21, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Sunday, Bloody Sunday Sunday, Bloody Sunday
A recent study by the non-profit Media Matters for America won't surprise Nation readers. The report, If it's Sunday, it's Conservative, demonstrates that conservative guests dram...
Feb 21, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Cheney Stayed At Uncle Tom’s House Cheney Stayed At Uncle Tom’s House
Newsweek reported an interesting tidbit about Cheney's stay at the exclusive 50,000 acre preserve known as the Armstrong Ranch. It seems that the Vice-President's lodgings were in ...
Feb 21, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Carter: Don’t Punish the Palestinians Carter: Don’t Punish the Palestinians
The yahoo crowd that runs U.S. foreign policy has been struggling to figure out how to get to the right of Israeli's Likud Party when it comes to countering the decision of the Pal...
Feb 21, 2006 / John Nichols
Corporate Control of Ports Is the Problem — UPDATED Corporate Control of Ports Is the Problem — UPDATED
The problem with the Bush administration's support for a move by a United Arab Emirates-based firm to take over operation of six major American ports -- as well as the shipment of...
Feb 21, 2006 / John Nichols
Cheney Again Cheney Again
Jane Mayer's got a whopping-good piece in the latest New Yorker detailing the frustrated crusade of one Alberto J. Mora to stop the institutionalization of torture by Bush admini...
Feb 21, 2006 / Marc Cooper