Scary Movie: Captivity’s Ad Campaign

I joined the protest of a terribly offensive poster for the horror flick Captivity, which resulted in its being taken down. Was that a good thing?

Annabelle Gurwitch

Hip-Hop’s E-Z Scapegoats

There's a big difference between the misogynous hip-hop produced by big media and the hip-hop that moves a generation.

Jeff Chang and Dave Zirin

Spinning Hillary Centrist

How can Hillary Clinton maintain her populist credentials when Mark Penn, her chief pollster and campaign strategist, also represents the interests of some of America's largest corporations?

Ari Berman

America’s Idiotic Political Debates

All France was transfixed as presidential candidates conducted a passionate, freewheeling debate this week. Why are American debates so intentionally stupid?

Nicholas von Hoffman

Responses to Darling-Hammond

The second part of our forum on the Bush Administration's 2002 No Child Left Behind Act.

Deborah Meier, Velma L. Cobb and Pedro Noguera

Look Who’s Taxing

Weary of tax cuts for the rich, state politicians are rethinking their aversion to tax-and-spend.

Christopher Hayes

The Flaws in Rubinomics

Economic policy centered on a balanced budget will destroy what's left of FDR's New Deal.

Thomas Palley

Evaluating ‘No Child Left Behind’

The problems and promises of Bush's education policy.

Linda Darling-Hammond

Better to Be a Chimpanzee

To qualify for charity, a homeless Austrian chimp has petitioned the courts to be granted human status. If he wins, expect a surge of humans going over to the other side.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Disseminate Information, Protect Democracy

Unless the US Postal Service reverses its steep increases in bulk-mailing rates to favor large corporate publishers, the future of small magazines is grim.

Teresa Stack

Nation Notes

We're proud to announce that Stuart Klawans, The Nation's film critic since 1988, has received the 2007 National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. The NMA judges said, "Klawans brings a fan's passion and a far-ranging intellect to his witty writing about film. From high culture to low, his reviews...make us excited about the movies all over again."

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Dems Tangled in Netroots

Working For Us, a new coalition of unions and Internet activists, seeks to reform the Democratic Party from the ground up.

Ari Melber

The Chutzpah Industry

Alan Dershowitz is at it again, campaigning to deny tenure to a DePaul University professor who criticized him.

Jon Wiener

Yeltsin’s (Real) Legacy

Don't believe the glowing obituaries: Boris Yeltsin's legacy was to de-democratize Russia.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

George Tenet’s Evasions

His new memoir proves how hard it is to tell the truth about oneself, but how easy it is to blame others.

David Corn

Showdown on the War

Despite the Administration's crude and dishonest attacks on efforts to end the war, Congressional Democrats can't back down now.

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Scenes From Hell

An apocalyptic vision of the Bush Administration, from Houston artist Lynn Randolph.

Lynn Randolph

The Scum Also Rises

How else to explain why arrogant incompetents like Paul Wolfowitz rose to power in the Bush Administration?

Robert Scheer

Another Exasperating Account of the Bunker

Sinking Tenet's "slam dunk."

Calvin Trillin

The Post-Imus Conundrum

Liberals prefer to ignore that when it comes to verbal violence, white radio shock jocks are given the same pass as gangsta rappers.

Eric Alterman

Poem Windy and Continued

very cold. My small
and panicked last
kiss was like making
a noise to make sure
I was there

Graham Foust

Scary Movie: Captivity’s Ad Campaign

I joined the protest of a terribly offensive poster for the horror flick Captivity, which resulted in its being taken down. Was that a good thing?

Annabelle Gurwitch

Hip-Hop’s E-Z Scapegoats

There's a big difference between the misogynous hip-hop produced by big media and the hip-hop that moves a generation.

Jeff Chang and Dave Zirin

America’s Idiotic Political Debates

All France was transfixed as presidential candidates conducted a passionate, freewheeling debate this week. Why are American debates so intentionally stupid?

Nicholas von Hoffman

Discovery/The Nation ’07 Prizewinners

Four previously unpublished poets are honored as winners of Discovery/The Nation 07, the annual Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of The Unterberg Poetry Center.

The Nation

Infantile Liberalism

Russell Jacoby

Revolutionary Devotion

Communism, Catholicism and radical Modernism meet on the dissecting table of César Vallejo's poetry.

Roberto González Echevarría

Scenes From Hell

An apocalyptic vision of the Bush Administration, from Houston artist Lynn Randolph.

Lynn Randolph

Uncle Sam Adds Insult to Injury

Needham, Mass.

Our Readers and Joshua Kors