Poets Against the War Poets Against the War
Here The Nation presents a few of the works posted on "Poets Against the War," (www.poetsagainstthewar.org), the website set up by Sam Hamill, poet and editor, when he ca...
Feb 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Alfred Corn, Sam Hamill, W.S. Merwin, Maxine Kumin, and Rita Dove
On the Backlash Against the Perfidious French On the Backlash Against the Perfidious French
They're relegated to the side.
This role--which they cannot abide,
Which torments Frenchmen day and night--
Can make them do things out of spite.
Feb 19, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Postcards From New York Postcards From New York
Among the few hundred thousand people who took to the streets of New York on February 15 to protest an invasion of Iraq were the current group of Nation interns.
Feb 18, 2003 / Feature / The Nation
The Army’s Empire Skeptics The Army’s Empire Skeptics
Officers are raising serious questions about manpower, morale and technology.
Feb 13, 2003 / Feature / Jason Vest
Letter to America Letter to America
War for the wrong reasons will delegitimize the instrument itself.
Feb 13, 2003 / Feature / Ramesh Thakur
The Great ‘Intelligence’ Fraud The Great ‘Intelligence’ Fraud
Events do rush by us in a blur, I know, but let's not abandon Secretary of State Colin Powell's February 5 UN speech to the graveyard of history without one last backward glanc...
Feb 13, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Voices of the Street Voices of the Street
Even before the crucial February 14 meeting of the Security Council (after this issue went to press), a significant milestone was reached in the form of the proposal by France,...
Feb 13, 2003 / The Editors
Code Orange Code Orange
The whole sad, messy world was on Code Orange alert on the day I left for England.
Feb 13, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Case Against the War The Case Against the War
The revival of nuclear danger means we have already lost, whatever happens later.
Feb 13, 2003 / Feature / Jonathan Schell
Who’s in Charge? Who’s in Charge?
On October 4, 2001--less than a month after that horrific day--George W. Bush and the members of his National Security Council were nailing down the details of the coming war i...
Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Corn