Rights on the Line Rights on the Line
Recent days have brought the first tentative but welcome roadblocks to the Bush Administration's war-fevered assault on civil liberties. In Newark, Superior Court Judge Arthur D'I...
Apr 4, 2002 / The Editors
The Road Not Yet Taken The Road Not Yet Taken
Even as the Middle East plunged deeper into the maelstrom of fear, hatred, violence and despair, recent diplomatic developments, ironically, made the conditions for achieving peac...
Apr 4, 2002 / The Editors
View From Beirut View From Beirut
First, the Arab League summit here in Beirut was chaos. Then it was the nearest to Arab unity that the Middle East has seen since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The chaos, of ...
Apr 4, 2002 / Robert Fisk
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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / The Editors