May 22, 2006 Issue

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Feature

FEMA Braces for Another Storm

With hurricane season approaching and another Bush crony at the helm of FEMA, a few restive lawmakers are seeking real reform for the storm-tossed agency. Whether they will succeed is another story.
Bryan Farrell
Forecast for Snow

When government refuses to explain itself, it’s up to journalists to discover the truth. As Tony Snow debuts as White House Press Secretary, will answers on Porter Goss be forthcoming–or will the practice of press nullification continue?
Jay Rosen
A Hunger for Justice

Twenty-five years ago, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands died after a sixty-six day hunger strike. Today political prisoners from Guantánamo to Iran, Turkey and Eastern Europe continue to use hunger to draw attention to their plights.
Denis O’Hearn
People Power In Nepal

The removal of the contemptuous Nepali regime was a type of “people power” absent from Asia and the rest of world for many years, opening dialogue with the Maoist rebels and creating the conditions for peace.
Kanak Mani Dixit
Saudi Arabia, a Kingdom Divided

September 11 marked a turning point in the history of Saudi Arabia, raising new questions about political repression, religious extremism and the future of its youth.
Alain Gresh
Women and Warlords

A policy of “affirmative discrimination” helped put twenty women in the Afghan Parliament, but how can they confront the warlords and criminals who hold most of the power?
Ann Jones
The Motherhood Manifesto

Mothers in America are in serious need of a new deal to remedy a profound wage gap with other working women and men, and an outdated family support structure.
Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Editorial

The Case for Impeaching President George W. Bush

When an Administration with a track record of lies, torture and abuses of power cannot even float a palatable rationale for expanding unsupervised spying on American citizens, it feeds speculation that part of the program’s purpose is sinister.
Michael Ratner
In Fact…

JANE JACOBS
The Editors
Constitutional Crisis

Using the insidious pretense of the “unitary executive,” George W.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sloppy Seconds

The plagiarism flap over Opal Mehta is essentially a story about clichés and stereotypes passing from one subliterary commercial product to another.
Stuart Klawans
John Kenneth Galbraith

Longtime Nation Associate John Kenneth Galbraith is best remembered not only as a New Dealer, old-line liberal or Keynesian economist but as a contrarian and independent thinker.
The Editors
Saber Rattling Over Iran

The US and Iran are engaged in a reckless game of chicken that could end in disaster for the Persian Gulf region and the world.
The Editors
The Moussaoui Paradox

Justice triumphed over blood vengeance Wednesday as jurors declined to sentence a marginal 9/11 conspirator to death, while one of the real culprits languishes in a secret prison, unlikely to ever come to trial.
Bruce Shapiro
May Day, May Day

Despite the loud and determined voice of immigrant communities for fair and just immigration reform, we have yet to see an acceptable proposal from Congress.
Saurav Sarkar
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Column

The Spook in Your Phone

Gen. Michael Hayden, nominated by President Bush to head the CIA, is the man responsible for the most extensive attack ever on the privacy of US citizens.
Robert Scheer
Bonding With the Babe

Bashing Barry Bonds has become a national sport, as the flawed slugger nears matching Babe Ruth’s record. But hasn’t anyone considered the faults of the Babe?
Dave Zirin
J.K. Galbraith and the Forks in the Road

While John Kenneth Galbraith was good at pointing out the failures of the free enterprise system, he could never overcome the play-to-win mentality of American capitalism.
Alexander Cockburn
Cheney at the Pump

Why should anyone be surprised that Dick Cheney’s good oil boys are making out like bandits?
Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Bonding With the Babe

Bashing Barry Bonds has become a national sport, as the flawed slugger nears matching Babe Ruth’s record. But hasn’t anyone considered the faults of the Babe?
Dave Zirin
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Reviews of four stellar films: Three Times, Art School Confidential, Lady Vengeance and Army of Shadows.
Stuart Klawans
Discovery/The Nation ’06 Prizewinners

Works by Nicky Beer, Sandy Tseng, Eric Leigh and Shara Lessley, winners of the Discovery/The Nation Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize.
Grace Schulman
Love Letters

Richard Lingeman’s Double Lives explores the richness of friendships between such literary lions as Hawthorne and Melville, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and Kerourac, Ginsberg and Cassidy.
Ruth Baldwin
On the Corner

Times Square may be the most dynamic urban space of the twentieth century, but you wouldn’t know it from reading Marshall Berman’s On the Town.
David Margolick
On Native Grounds

Alan Taylor’s Divided Ground examines how land-grabbing settlers destroyed Indian society and how postrevolutionary politicians speeded their demise.
Daniel Lazare
Sloppy Seconds

The plagiarism flap over Opal Mehta is essentially a story about clichés and stereotypes passing from one subliterary commercial product to another.
Stuart Klawans
John Kenneth Galbraith

Longtime Nation Associate John Kenneth Galbraith is best remembered not only as a New Dealer, old-line liberal or Keynesian economist but as a contrarian and independent thinker.
The Editors
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May 22, 2006 Issue

Feature

With hurricane season approaching and another Bush crony at the helm of FEMA, a few restive lawmakers are seeking real reform for the storm-tossed agency. Whether they will succeed is another story.

When government refuses to explain itself, it’s up to journalists to discover the truth. As Tony Snow debuts as White House Press Secretary, will answers on Porter Goss be forthcoming–or will the practice of press nullification continue?

Twenty-five years ago, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands died after a sixty-six day hunger strike. Today political prisoners from Guantánamo to Iran, Turkey and Eastern Europe continue to use hunger to draw attention to their plights.

The removal of the contemptuous Nepali regime was a type of “people power” absent from Asia and the rest of world for many years, opening dialogue with the Maoist rebels and creating the conditions for peace.

September 11 marked a turning point in the history of Saudi Arabia, raising new questions about political repression, religious extremism and the future of its youth.

A policy of “affirmative discrimination” helped put twenty women in the Afghan Parliament, but how can they confront the warlords and criminals who hold most of the power?

Mothers in America are in serious need of a new deal to remedy a profound wage gap with other working women and men, and an outdated family support structure.

Editorial

When an Administration with a track record of lies, torture and abuses of power cannot even float a palatable rationale for expanding unsupervised spying on American citizens, it feeds speculation that part of the program’s purpose is sinister.

JANE JACOBS

Using the insidious pretense of the “unitary executive,” George W.

The plagiarism flap over Opal Mehta is essentially a story about clichés and stereotypes passing from one subliterary commercial product to another.

Longtime Nation Associate John Kenneth Galbraith is best remembered not only as a New Dealer, old-line liberal or Keynesian economist but as a contrarian and independent thinker.

The US and Iran are engaged in a reckless game of chicken that could end in disaster for the Persian Gulf region and the world.

Justice triumphed over blood vengeance Wednesday as jurors declined to sentence a marginal 9/11 conspirator to death, while one of the real culprits languishes in a secret prison, unlikely to ever come to trial.

Despite the loud and determined voice of immigrant communities for fair and just immigration reform, we have yet to see an acceptable proposal from Congress.

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Column

Gen. Michael Hayden, nominated by President Bush to head the CIA, is the man responsible for the most extensive attack ever on the privacy of US citizens.

Bashing Barry Bonds has become a national sport, as the flawed slugger nears matching Babe Ruth’s record. But hasn’t anyone considered the faults of the Babe?

While John Kenneth Galbraith was good at pointing out the failures of the free enterprise system, he could never overcome the play-to-win mentality of American capitalism.

Why should anyone be surprised that Dick Cheney’s good oil boys are making out like bandits?

Books & the Arts

Bashing Barry Bonds has become a national sport, as the flawed slugger nears matching Babe Ruth’s record. But hasn’t anyone considered the faults of the Babe?

Reviews of four stellar films: Three Times, Art School Confidential, Lady Vengeance and Army of Shadows.

Works by Nicky Beer, Sandy Tseng, Eric Leigh and Shara Lessley, winners of the Discovery/The Nation Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize.

Richard Lingeman’s Double Lives explores the richness of friendships between such literary lions as Hawthorne and Melville, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and Kerourac, Ginsberg and Cassidy.

Times Square may be the most dynamic urban space of the twentieth century, but you wouldn’t know it from reading Marshall Berman’s On the Town.

Alan Taylor’s Divided Ground examines how land-grabbing settlers destroyed Indian society and how postrevolutionary politicians speeded their demise.

The plagiarism flap over Opal Mehta is essentially a story about clichés and stereotypes passing from one subliterary commercial product to another.

Longtime Nation Associate John Kenneth Galbraith is best remembered not only as a New Dealer, old-line liberal or Keynesian economist but as a contrarian and independent thinker.

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