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Feature
ABC’s Digital Convention Scam
The Center for Digital Democracy is part of a “Public Interest, Public Airwaves” coalition supporting a policy that would require broadcasters to air more public service programming in the digital age. Click here for more info.
Jeffrey Chester
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Schwarzenegger’s Education Failures
The Governor is setting two dangerous precedents for education in California.
Shane Paul Goldmacher
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Google’s ‘Haphazard’ Ad Policy
Google has been acting as a censor to any political advertising with an edge.
Katherine C. Reilly
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Letter From Uganda
For two years, journalist Andrew Rice lived in Uganda as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs.
Andrew Rice
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Global Fights Go Local
Missouri Governor Bob Holden learned how volatile globalization issues have become when his Democratic primary challenger, Claire McCaskill, started banging away on him for offshoring the state’s
John Nichols
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Devolve This!
Progressives urgently need a strategy to take back the states from the GOP.
Joel Rogers
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Fables of the Reconstruction
The effort to rebuild Iraq looks less like an aid mission than a criminal racket.
Christian Parenti
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Closing the ‘Religion Gap’
Bringing more churchgoers into the fold poses a complex challenge for Democrats.
Eyal Press
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Editorial
Goodbye, Mr. McGreevey
How Jim McGreevey perfected the art of swimming in the mainstream.
Richard Kim
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Nation Notes
Sidney Morgenbesser, the philosopher’s philosopher, died on August 1. Sidney was one of a kind.
The Nation
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Sex, Lies and Politics
Throwing a bone to its sex-obsessed religious base, the GOP has slipped an abstinence activist into its convention mix of mostly moderate speakers.
Lara Riscol
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Press Watch
A silver lining amid the dismal outpouring of news from Iraq has been the unbroken parade of conservative (and liberal hawk) commentators who now admit–with mea culpas, half-apologies and sour c
Scott Sherman
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No Bush, No Chicago ’68
The war on the other side of the world was launched with high expectations but is now widely seen as a fiasco.
John Passacantando and Todd Gitlin
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Election Matters
In the 1960s John F. Kennedy inspired America with his pledge to put a man on the moon in ten years. Now, John F.
Mark Hertsgaard
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Trust and Terror
The color of emergency alerts does not matter if the people producing the alerts cannot be trusted.
The Editors
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Column
Iraqi Olympic Soccer Players Kick the Stuffing Out of Bush’s Fantasy
Team members do not want to be used as an ad for the presidential campaign.
Robert Scheer
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Kerry Made a Bush League Error on Iraq
His refusal to recant his war vote plays into the President’s hands.
Robert Scheer
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Alternative Visions
Dr. Marc regularly answers readers’ questions on matters relating to medicine, healthcare and politics. To send a query, click here.
Dr. Marc Siegel
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PBS Adds Insult to Injury
Click here to ask PBS CEO Patricia Mitchell to reconsider the network’s new conservative slant.
CORRECTION: The Dow Jones Corporation’s total revenue (not profit) topped $1.5 billion.Eric Alterman
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Bush, After Saying He’ll Cede Hollywood to the Democrats Because He Has the Regular People Behind Him, Sings a Song to That Effect, to the Tune of That Old
Regular people, just plain working folks
Always stood out in my eyes.
I scorn all those people who drink wine instead
Of eating Frito pies.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Bad Brains
More than once in Jonathan Demme’s reimagining of The Manchurian Candidate, a distraught Denzel Washington jabs at his skull and rasps, “They got in here.” He means it literally.
Stuart Klawans
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The Middle Man
Over the century that followed the Napoleonic wars, the Ottoman Empire contracted and eventually disappeared from the map.
Mark Mazower
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The Lost Steps
American policy-makers may be divided into two schools of thought on the Arab-Israeli conflict: the evenhanded and the Israel-first.
Avi Shlaim
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Letters
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