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Feature
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Blue Tide In Kentucky–and Virginia
Democrats gained steam in Tuesday’s off-year elections, making it even more obvious that two significant Southern states are up for grabs in 2008.
Bob Moser
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Environmentalism With a Social Conscience
At the eighteenth annual Bioneers Conference, environmentalists and social activists are creating alliances that allow the poor to share the promise of a greening America.
Joliange Wright
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Who Lost Pakistan?
How often can the Bush Administration be caught off guard by the consequences of its own actions? Endlessly, it seems.
Tom Engelhardt
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Cracking the Code
How can the left be as adept as the right-wing spin machine at communicating its political agenda? Learn how to use the tools.
Thom Hartmann
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San Francisco No Longer Sweat-Free
The city has backed away from its longstanding commitment to avoid procuring city workers’ garments from offshore sweatshops.
Tom Hayden
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The Great Debate of 2008
The time is right for a Great Debate on America’s purpose and place in the world. But neither Republicans nor Democrats seem up to the task.
Jerry W. Sanders
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Why We Need International Law
It’s time to undo the damage and reaffirm America’s historical commitment to international law.
Oona A. Hathaway
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Facing Hamas and Hezbollah
US diplomacy in the Middle East has been held hostage by a refusal to engage with these two popular movements.
Helena Cobban
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Combating Muslim Extremism
American politicians should stop implying that Muslim nations and individuals are more dangerous than any other group of human beings. They should also stop calling their religion “fascist.”
Juan Cole
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Avoiding the Toughness Trap
Candidates should rethink their commitment to outmoded security tools and veiled nuclear threats against nonnuclear states.
William D. Hartung
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Undebated Challenges
As America became mired in Iraq, the rest of the world moved on. Yet neither political party seems ready to face the fundamental economic, environmental and geopolitical changes.
Sherle R. Schwenninger
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The U.S. and the World (Editors’ Introduction)
The 2008 election, more than any election in decades, will turn on questions of foreign policy and national security.
The Nation
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Editorial
The Colbert Rapport
Like other prank campaigns, Stephen Colbert’s bid for President promised brilliant satire. It’s a shame he’s called it quits.
Larry Bogad
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Preparing for the Inevitable
The San Diego wildfires should prompt political candidates to address the fact that communities across America are ill-equipped to deal with natural and unnatural disasters.
Donald Cohen
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The Gap: New Frontiers in Child Abuse
The Gap has been caught selling garments made by child slaves in India. It’s enough to make you vomit all over your new denim jacket.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Noted.
Phony FEMA press conference, France v. Rumsfeld, Stephen Colbert and remembering Randall Forsberg.
The Editors
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False Prophets
James Watson continues his long and well-documented history of baselessly biologizing social stereotypes.
Patricia J. Williams
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Say No to Africom
With little Congressional scrutiny and nary a whimper of protest, the United States will soon establish permanent military bases in sub-Saharan Africa.
Danny Glover and Nicole C. Lee
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Column
Our Man in Pakistan
Gen. Pervez Musharraf turns out to be just another crummy dictator. But he’s our dictator–using the $10 billion in US aid to jail judges and lawyers, and give shelter Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Thanks, George.
Robert Scheer
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Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen
Gone are the days of equal protection. Intense natural disasters like the California wildfires are being met with a new model: privatized disaster response.
Naomi Klein
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David Horowitz, Feminist?
The oppression of Muslim women is a major theme among the Islamofascistly aware. If only they felt the same about other women on earth.
Katha Pollitt
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Du Côté de Chez Madame Defarge
These days, even London and Paris seem a bit like North Korea.
Alexander Cockburn
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The Nicest Republican
Huckabee wins the prize for “Mr. Congeniality” hands down…whatever else you might say about him.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
The Colbert Rapport
Like other prank campaigns, Stephen Colbert’s bid for President promised brilliant satire. It’s a shame he’s called it quits.
Larry Bogad
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News From Nowhere
Hip-hop star M.I.A. broadcasts the sound of those with one foot in the First World and the other in the global South.
Jeff Chang
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Playtime
The Surrealist dissident Raymond Queneau turned his writings into a lab for his experiments, and the results are still exhilarating.
Mark Polizzotti
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The View From Jantar Mantar
The contradictions of parliamentary democracy in India have been a constant source of struggle and rich debate.
Basharat Peer
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The U.S. and the World (Editors’ Introduction)
The 2008 election, more than any election in decades, will turn on questions of foreign policy and national security.
The Nation
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Letters
Hillary’s Money Men?
The errors about me in “Hillary’s Mystery Money Men,” by Russ Baker and Adam Federman [Nov.
Russ Baker, Adam Federman, Alan G. Quasha and Terence R. McAuliffe