Le Pen: The Center Folds Le Pen: The Center Folds
Earthquake. Cataclysm. Electroshock. The 9/11 of French politics. These were the recurring terms that established political leaders of both left and right used to characterize ...
Apr 25, 2002 / Doug Ireland
Understanding Ashcroft Understanding Ashcroft
I am beginning to suspect that Nation readers may not fully appreciate the challenges Attorney General John Ashcroft faces. What would you do in his place? Your intelligence agenc...
Apr 18, 2002 / David Cole
Sharon’s Bulldozers Sharon’s Bulldozers
Only the blind or those who diplomatically avert their eyes could not see the purpose of Israel's systematic destruction of Palestinian Authority offices and those of numerous cul...
Apr 18, 2002 / The Editors
Smoking Out Smuggling Smoking Out Smuggling
It's hard to imagine a tale of corporate mischief that would shock veteran observers of the US tobacco industry. But even the most jaded reader may raise an eyebrow at the allegat...
Apr 18, 2002 / The Editors
Progressive Blooms Progressive Blooms
As Molly Ivins put it in a recent column: "Across the length and breadth of this land of ours, from the mountain to the prairie, from every hill and dale comes the question, 'Wher...
Apr 18, 2002 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
End Business as Usual End Business as Usual
The Enron "outrage," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney told a rapt crowd of several hundred workers at Milwaukee's Serb Memorial Hall, is "not the story of one corporation's abuses, ...
Apr 18, 2002 / David Moberg
Is Smuggling a Patriotic Act? Is Smuggling a Patriotic Act?
On the one-month anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tobacco industry took aim at Congress's first effort to respond to the crisis with a major piece of new leg...
Apr 18, 2002 / Mark Schapiro
Sharon Hawks Down? Sharon Hawks Down?
On April 3, a high-octane collection of thirty-three conservatives sent George W. Bush a letter urging him to lend Washington's "full support to Israel as it seeks to root out the...
Apr 11, 2002 / David Corn
Lonesome Cowboy Lonesome Cowboy
On April 11, as John Anderson notes in this issue, the International Criminal Court was scheduled to go into effect after being ratified by the required sixty nations. Although Bi...
Apr 11, 2002 / The Editors
Where Are the Peaceniks? Where Are the Peaceniks?
Do Not Employ Arabs, Enemies Should Not Be Offered a Livelihood and We Will Assist Those Who Do Not Provide Work For Arabs are just a few of the slogans covering billboards throug...
Apr 11, 2002 / Neve Gordon