Star Wars Foes Hit DC

The two sisters from the Our Lady of Angels convent had driven down from Pennsylvania with a message for their Congressman: Say no to Star Wars. It was proving a tough sell.

Matt Bivens

Russian Nuclear Roulette

Stephen F. Cohen

The New Nuclear Danger

Policies are more confused than at any time since the weapons were invented.

Jonathan Schell

Bush’s Tax Savings: Unreal!

A Nation analysis finds that benefits to Bush, Cheney and the Cabinet could top million.

Michael Scherer

Edison’s Red Ink Schoolhouse

The biggest brand name in for-profit education is floundering.

Peter Schrag

White House Tax Windfall

How much does the White House stand to save from Bush's tax cut?

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Death and Disparity

To write a letter on behalf of Juan Raul Garza, as well as the other prisoners currently on state and federal death row, visit our Death Row Roll Call.

David Cole

McVeigh: Done to Death

For more information, see our Death Row Roll Call.

Bruce Shapiro

The Littlest Coke Addicts

Steven Manning

Not This Time in LA

John Nichols

Harvard’s ‘Fitting Choice’

Matt Bivens

McCain in Vain?

David Corn

Florida Revisited

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Nation Notes

We're pleased to announce that John Nichols joins national affairs correspondent William Greider and Washington editor David Corn in covering politics and policy from the capital. As part of The Nation's expanded Washington bureau, Nichols will divide his time between DC and the road, telling Washington what Americans think and telling Americans what's happening in Washington. He has written "The Beat" for The Nation for the past year and a half, while serving as editorial page editor of the Capital Times newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. Previously, he was a national correspondent and editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade. Nichols was honored by the Inland Press Association for writing the best editorials appearing in a US daily newspaper, and by Women in Communications International as best columnist at a major daily. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin and is a frequent lecturer on public affairs. Author, with Robert McChesney, of It's the Media, Stupid (Seven Stories), he is currently writing a book for The New Press on the 2000 election, focusing on the Florida recount debacle and democracy issues.

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Blindness in Gaza

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The Fugitive

Christopher Hitchens

Mad Bad Ads

Katha Pollitt

The Republicans and John McCain

They thought that Jeffords was their bane,
But now they see that John McCain,
Who shrugs off efforts to restrain
His longtime love of speaking plain,
And likes to jerk George Bush's chain
And demonstrate complete disdain
For rules Republicans maintain,
Could cause them even greater pain--
Could, thinking he's the knight Gawain
(Or pilot of a fighter plane),
Just bolt, and run his own campaign
To be a sagebrush Charlemagne.

In him they don't know what they've got.
One thing's for sure: Trent Lott he's not.

Calvin Trillin

Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook

Robert Scheer

The Dogmeteers

Tim Appelo

Timbertown in the Pink

David L. Kirp

Japan: An Interpretation

Patrick Smith

Universe of Faith and Terror

David L. Ulin

Letters

Alexander Cockburn, Gore Vidal, Ken Silverstein, Susan Sontag, Gila Svirsky, Tarek Milleron, Matthew Runci, Holly Burkhalter and Nathaniel A. Raymond