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December 5, 2005 Issue

As Lolita turns 50 Lila Azam Zanganeh assesses the cultural impact of Nabokov’s nymphet; John Banville reviews Party in the Blitz, the…

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Editorial

Emile Capouya

Emile Capouya, literary editor of The Nation from 1970-1976, was both a working man and an intellectual, who brought trade book publishing to European standards and lived to...

Ted Solotaroff

In Fact…

On November 11 longtime Nation contributor Robert Scheer learned he'd been fired by the Los Angeles Times, where he has worked as a reporter and columnist for ...

The Editors

President Thelma

Is Commander-in-Chief softening up the country for President Hillary? Americans may not not be ready to put a woman in the White House, but they may have calmed down enough ...

Richard Goldstein

Bush’s War on the Press

Until the Bush Administration is held accountable by Congress for its propaganda, manipulation of the truth and assaults on journalism, freedom of the press will exist in name only...

John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney

In Kars and Frankfurt

The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature wrote this 2005 editorial in The Nation, addressing the issue of the artistic imagination at risk in a repressive state. ...

Orhan Pamuk

More Leaks, Please!

Power-friendly reporters like Judith Miller are easily manipulated by selective leaks. But what we need now is more civil disobedience by whistle-blowers exposing renditions, acts ...

Bruce Shapiro

The GOP Retreat

Undoing the savage inequalities of the Bush era will require a titanic fight, but the new-found courage of GOP moderates hints that significant changes are in the wind.

The Editors

The Four Freedoms, 2005

Ward Sutton

Column

Unholy Wars

The conduct of the war in Iraq has embarrassed us, lowered us, endangered us and betrayed our best ideals. The debasement of our soldiers and the lawlessness of our leaders is shoc...

Patricia J. Williams

The Lies That Bind

Lack of candor is not surprising from Bush or Ahmad Chalabi, but why does the New York Times continue to struggle with the truth about Judith Miller? The Gray Lady might sol...

Eric Alterman

Don’t Criticize Me

Calvin Trillin

Letters

THE MAORI STILL FIGHT FOR JUSTICE

Somerville, Mass.

Arthur C. Danto and Our Readers and Anatol Lieven and Russell Jacoby

Feature

The Secret History of Rum

Long before oil dominated geopolitics, rum was the original global commodity, tying Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Caribbean in a complex web of trade and credit. And Bacardi...

Ian Williams

Buyers’ Remorse

Home equity--for those lucky enough to own a house or condo--is a primary source of economic security. But unsold inventory, rising interest rates and record levels of mortgage def...

Nicholas von Hoffman

An Oil-Slicked Playing Field

The scramble for petroleum by developing countries worldwide is reshaping global geopolitics in favor of oil-rich nations like Iran, Venezuela and Sudan.

Dilip Hiro

The War With No Name

For twenty-five years, Kurdish guerrillas have battled the forces of the Turkish state. For a while, things began to settle down, but the US occupation of Iraq changed all that.

Christian Parenti

The Champ Meets the Chump

When George W. Bush met Muhammad Ali at the White House last week, the Champ had one last rope-a-dope up his sleeve. You don't have to guess who won this match.

Dave Zirin

Break Up Cheney’s Cabal

If the United States is to extricate itself from the Iraq debacle, the first step is to break up the cabal of Bush Administration officials who have led the nation to war.

Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith

Scooter Libby’s Doomed Defense

Capitalizing on Bob Woodward's revelation that he was one of the first to learn about Valerie Plame's CIA status, Scooter Libby's legal team hopes that will get their client off th...

Elizabeth de la Vega