The Murtha Moment The Murtha Moment
John Murtha is right: The American public has turned against the war. Democrats and Republicans must put aside politics and work together to bring the troops home quickly and focus...
Nov 23, 2005 / The Editors
Emile Capouya Emile Capouya
Emile Capouya, literary editor of The Nation from 1970-1976, was both a working man and an intellectual, who brought trade book publishing to European standards and lived to oppose...
Nov 17, 2005 / Ted Solotaroff
In Fact… In Fact…
On November 11 longtime Nation contributor Robert Scheer learned he'd been fired by the Los Angeles Times, where he has worked as a reporter and columnist for thirty years.
Nov 17, 2005 / The Editors
President Thelma President Thelma
Is Commander-in-Chief softening up the country for President Hillary? Americans may not not be ready to put a woman in the White House, but they may have calmed down enough to cont...
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein
Bush’s War on the Press Bush’s War on the Press
Until the Bush Administration is held accountable by Congress for its propaganda, manipulation of the truth and assaults on journalism, freedom of the press will exist in name only...
Nov 17, 2005 / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
In Kars and Frankfurt In Kars and Frankfurt
The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature wrote this 2005 editorial in The Nation, addressing the issue of the artistic imagination at risk in a repressive state.
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Orhan Pamuk
More Leaks, Please! More Leaks, Please!
Power-friendly reporters like Judith Miller are easily manipulated by selective leaks. But what we need now is more civil disobedience by whistle-blowers exposing renditions, acts ...
Nov 17, 2005 / Bruce Shapiro
The GOP Retreat The GOP Retreat
Undoing the savage inequalities of the Bush era will require a titanic fight, but the new-found courage of GOP moderates hints that significant changes are in the wind.
Nov 17, 2005 / The Editors
New Medicare Benefit Helps Only Drug Companies New Medicare Benefit Helps Only Drug Companies
Why are so few elderly people signing up for the new Medicare drug benefit? It's cumbersome, costly and totally confusing.
Nov 16, 2005 / Dr. Marc Siegel