Justice in Philly (Finally)

Just a few months before this summer's Republican National Convention in New York, the last three protesters to go to trial on charges stemming from the GOP convention in Philadelphia in 2000 wer

Michael Blanding

Lying in Wait

On the eve of mass protests, police tell tales that turn out not to be true.

David Graeber

In Praise of Secularism

To arms, freethinkers! Religious zealots have hijacked your government!

Susan Jacoby

Bush To City: Drop Dead

The President vows to exploit New York City, not aid it.

Jack Newfield

Halliburton Services Inc.

Bruce McCall

In Fact…

SOMETHING NEW ON THE DIAL

The Nation

Fighting for Oil–Still

Although media attention has been focused on civil violence in the Baghdad area, Iraq's vast and vulnerable network of oil pipelines and pumping stations has become a major battlefield in the ong

Michael T. Klare

A Union of Unions

There are bigger American unions, but none that are feistier organizers than HERE (hotel and restaurant workers) and UNITE (historically garment and textile workers).

David Moberg

Scalia’s Flawed Judgment

After weeks of critical editorials, embarrassing cartoons and late-night talk-show jokes, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia issued a twenty-one-page memorandum on March 18 to explain why his J

Stephen Gillers

Haiti’s Occupation

The Haitian people have once again been excluded from their own governance.

Amy Wilentz

Laughing With Bush

When George W.

David Corn

Bush’s ‘Rat List’

Nixon kept his famous "enemies list." Now George W.

the Editors

Medicare, Mad Cow and Nardil

Dr. Marc regularly answers readers' questions on matters relating to medicine, healthcare and politics. To send a query, click here.

Dr. Marc Siegel

The More We Try, the Worse Iraq Gets

It is the beginning of the end for the United States in Iraq. No amount of glib optimism from Bush Administration soothsayers can conceal that reality.

Robert Scheer

Let’s Make Enemies

Are you dismayed at US policy in Iraq? Write your elected reps and tell them so. Click here.

Naomi Klein

Antidepressants a Problem? We’re Shocked!

Six years after Kip Kinkel, dosed up with Prozac, killed his parents and two students at Thurston High, in Oregon; five years after Eric Harris, dosed with Luvox, embarked on his day of slaughter

Alexander Cockburn

The 9/11 Commission Hears From Richard Clarke

When testimony came from Richard Clarke, he
Inspired White House spokesmen to get snarky,
Because, with words combining bite and bark, he

Calvin Trillin

Staring at the Sea

Toward the end of January, I received an invitation to a press opening for "Manet and the Sea," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Arthur C. Danto

Empty Vessel

For a man who destroyed his country and wrecked or stole hundreds of thousands of lives, Slobodan Milosevic is an oddly colorless villain.

Laura Secor

Democracy Is in the Streets

If you found George W. Bush's 2000 victory in Florida difficult to stomach, imagine being on the losing side of Mexico's 1988 presidential election.

Daniel Wilkinson

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