Questions for Mr. Bush Questions for Mr. Bush
The Bush Administration has vigorously and effectively responded to the terrorist attack of September 11. The country seems united behind that effort. Certainly there was no hint ...
Apr 4, 2002 / Editorial / George McGovern
Two Middle East Wars Two Middle East Wars
Two Palestinian-Israeli wars have erupted in this region. One is the Palestinian nation's war for its freedom from occupation and for its right to independent statehood. Any decen...
Peace And Nuclear Disarmament: A Call To Action Peace And Nuclear Disarmament: A Call To Action
"... Come my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world, ..."
Apr 1, 2002 / Editorial / Dennis Kucinich
Free Trade Bush’s Way Free Trade Bush’s Way
On the eve of George W. Bush's recent tour of Latin America, Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes equated the advantages of a global free market with the peaks of the Himalayas, characte...
Mar 28, 2002 / Editorial / Marc Cooper
Oscar Opens the Door Oscar Opens the Door
As Halle Berry elegantly strode to the podium to accept her best actress Oscar, the first for a black woman, she wept uncontrollably and gasped, "This moment is so much bigger tha...
Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Michael Eric Dyson
Lieberman in Enronland Lieberman in Enronland
It has come to this: The investigation of Enron as a political scandal appears for now to depend on Senator Joseph Lieberman, an Enron Democrat who bagged Enron campaign contribut...
Mar 28, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
AWARDS TIME The Nation is a finalist in the single-topic-issue category of the National Magazine Awards for "Death Trip: The American Way of Execution" (Jan. 8/15, 2001). This fe...
Mar 28, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
Endangering US Security Endangering US Security
Barely six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin became the Bush Administration's most valuable ally in the war against terrorism in Afghanistan, the promise of a historic...
Mar 28, 2002 / Editorial / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen
The US & the Mideast The US & the Mideast
What was originally billed as Dick Cheney's mission to recruit Arab nations' support for ousting Saddam Hussein became a lecture tour on the urgency of dealing with the Israeli-Pa...
Mar 21, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
As Zimbabwe Goes… As Zimbabwe Goes…
On March 10 the citizens of a small African country went to the polls to cast their votes for an incumbent with a reputation as one of the continent's most unreconstructed tyrants...
Mar 21, 2002 / Editorial / Mark Gevisser