Elizabeth Holtzman: Nixon to Bush & the Case for Impeachment Elizabeth Holtzman: Nixon to Bush & the Case for Impeachment
A few days before the New Year, soon after the New York Times reported that Bush had authorized the warrantless wiretapping of thousands of Americans, I called Elizabeth Holtzman....
Jan 12, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Right-Wing Revelation Right-Wing Revelation
Samuel Alito's blunt testimony on international law revealed the extremity of his judicial philosophy and carried profound implications for rulings he might make.
Jan 12, 2006 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro
Cruel and Unusual Punishment Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Michael Haneke's Caché is a stylish thriller that scrapes away at the surface of polite European affluence to lay bare the moral rot beneath.
Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In Her Mind’s Eye In Her Mind’s Eye
Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism is a political classic trapped in the era in which it was written.
Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Rée
Easier Said Than Done Easier Said Than Done
Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism explores the middle ground between the universal laws of liberalism and relativism's blind respect for all differences.
Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Gray
Working-Class Hero Working-Class Hero
While the edges continue to be smoothed off Martin Luther King Jr.'s bracing challenges to racism, war and free-market exploitation, the holiday is a time to remember a leader who...
Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / William P. Jones
Green Power Green Power
The Green Party fell from power in recent German elections, but Greens continue to be the party to watch, a progressive influence on the world's third-largest economy.
Jan 11, 2006 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
Part D From Outer Space Part D From Outer Space
The Bush Administration's ill-advised new prescription drug program could destroy Medicare as a benefit for all Americans.
Jan 11, 2006 / Feature / Trudy Lieberman
The Impeachment of George W. Bush The Impeachment of George W. Bush
The time has come to call for the impeachment of President Bush. Any President who maintains he is above the law--and acts repeatedly on that belief--seriously endangers our consit...
Jan 11, 2006 / Feature / Elizabeth Holtzman
Your Questions for Alito Your Questions for Alito
As confirmation hearings unfold before the Senate Judiciary committee, readers of TheNation.com--and at least one high-profile magazine editor--posed their own questions about Samu...
Jan 11, 2006 / Feature / The Nation