September 11 Questions September 11 Questions
George W. Bush, it is true, did not create the FBI's smug, insular, muscle-bound bureaucracy or the CIA's well-known penchant for loopy spy tips and wrongheaded geopolitical analy...
May 23, 2002 / The Editors
The New Politics of September 11 The New Politics of September 11
Since September 11, George W. Bush's political team and their Republican allies have used every trick to exploit the tragedy for political advantage.
May 17, 2002 / John Nichols
Power Politics at Yale Power Politics at Yale
As a Russian studies major at Yale in the 1970s, I observed Soviet "elections" that were conducted more fairly than the 2002 Yale Corporation's board of trustees election. Why is ...
May 16, 2002 / Sherrod Brown
A Dangerous Treaty A Dangerous Treaty
The Nation has warned repeatedly that the Bush Administration was threatening to undermine perhaps the best chance in a generation for a cooperative relationship with Russia that ...
May 16, 2002 / The Editors
Mr. Carter Goes to Cuba Mr. Carter Goes to Cuba
"I have concluded that we should attempt to achieve normalization of our relations with Cuba," Jimmy Carter proclaimed in a secret Presidential Directive shortly after taking offi...
May 16, 2002 / Peter Kornbluh
Letter From Santiago Letter From Santiago
I arrived here in Chile May 8 as a material witness in a criminal complaint against former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet for the murder of an American friend just days after the ...
May 16, 2002 / Marc Cooper
White Should Go–Now White Should Go–Now
Army Secretary Thomas White appears to be inching closer to becoming the first Bush Administration casualty of the Enron scandal.
May 10, 2002 / Jason Leopold
Time to Step In Time to Step In
The recently announced plans for an international conference on the Middle East confront the Bush Administration with a major test of its capacity for international leadership....
May 9, 2002 / The Editors
Imperial Temptation Imperial Temptation
The idea of empire, once so effectively used by Ronald Reagan to discredit the Soviet Union, has recently undergone a strange rehabilitation in the United States. This process, wh...
May 9, 2002 / Amitav Ghosh
Brakes on Fast Track Brakes on Fast Track
An odd thing has happened in the obscure but spirited fight activists are waging against NAFTA's notorious Chapter 11 and the exclusive legal privileges it gives to multinational ...
May 9, 2002 / William Greider