For a Sane Energy Policy For a Sane Energy Policy
There is no piecemeal solution to the gas price crisis. It's a systemic sickness that goes to the root of the American way of life: big cars, big oil, big business and sprawl.
May 11, 2006 / The Editors
The Case for Impeaching President George W. Bush The Case for Impeaching President George W. Bush
When an Administration with a track record of lies, torture and abuses of power cannot even float a palatable rationale for expanding unsupervised spying on American citizens, it f...
May 4, 2006 / Michael Ratner
Constitutional Crisis Constitutional Crisis
Using the insidious pretense of the "unitary executive," George W.
May 4, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sloppy Seconds Sloppy Seconds
The plagiarism flap over Opal Mehta is essentially a story about clichés and stereotypes passing from one subliterary commercial product to another.
May 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith
Longtime Nation Associate John Kenneth Galbraith is best remembered not only as a New Dealer, old-line liberal or Keynesian economist but as a contrarian and independent thinker.
May 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Saber Rattling Over Iran Saber Rattling Over Iran
The US and Iran are engaged in a reckless game of chicken that could end in disaster for the Persian Gulf region and the world.
May 4, 2006 / The Editors
The Moussaoui Paradox The Moussaoui Paradox
Justice triumphed over blood vengeance Wednesday as jurors declined to sentence a marginal 9/11 conspirator to death, while one of the real culprits languishes in a secret prison, ...
May 4, 2006 / Bruce Shapiro
May Day, May Day May Day, May Day
Despite the loud and determined voice of immigrant communities for fair and just immigration reform, we have yet to see an acceptable proposal from Congress.
May 3, 2006 / Saurav Sarkar
Beckett at 100 Beckett at 100
No playwright has given plainer witness to the planet's most violent century or borne such loving witness to the dispossessed.
Apr 27, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Margaret Spillane