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Naomi Klein writes about how indigenous movements are redrawing the map of Latin America, David Corn explains why Special Prosecutor Patrick…
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Editorial
Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel takes on the role of publisher and
general partner at the magazine, and Victor Navasky becomes publisher
emeritus and a member of the mag...
The Editors
WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes has just come out of the closet. But why
didn't anyone care?
Dave Zirin
The fictional world created by the Bush Administration over its five
years in power is falling to pieces, with the blood-soaked folly in Iraq, a
ruined environment, massive corrupt...
Jonathan Schell
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...
The Editors
The Baathist regime is the most opaque on earth, and Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad must develop a strategy to save himself and his regime,
as the UN investigation of the assasin...
David Hirst
As remarkable as the concept may sound after years of Democratic
dysfunction, something akin to a two-party system appeared to take shape
November 1, the week after Scooter ...
John Nichols
If the US is to prevail in the war on terror, we must do it by
distinguishing ourselves from the enemy. Torture and degrading
treatment are as morally evil as terrorism, because th...
David Cole
The CIA leak scandal has revealed the Bush crew's dishonesty and
hypocrisy. But don't expect the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald
or Bush to ever explain what really happened.
David Corn
The nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US
Supreme Court forces the debate the President and the Senate have tried
so mightily to avoid: whether the Court should shift decisive...
The Editors
Column
A newly declassified Defense Intelligence Agency document discrediting reports of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq disproves the Bush Administration's claim that they went to w...
Robert Scheer
Across Latin America indigenous movements redrawing the continent's
political map, demanding not just "rights" but a reinvention of the
state along deeply democratic lines.
Naomi Klein
Liberals need to find a means to bridge the gap between Americans'
belief in liberal solutions and their willingness to trust liberals to
enact them.
Eric Alterman
The right has ushered in a moment of cult celebrity for the pre-born.
But let's not be seduced by this idea of personhood. Remember the poor
and not-so-perfect post-born children ...
Patricia J. Williams
Letters
Nation online readers write back on Senate Democrats, lobbyist
Jack Abramoff and WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes.
Our Readers
AFTER HE'S GONE...
Stockholm
Our Readers and Debbie Nathan
Feature
The lesson of the defeat in California of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's referendum
revolution is this: The American people will not forever be fooled. The
negative message of the Re...
Robert Scheer
Top oil execs were asked numerous questions at a Senate hearing on
spectacular profits earned in the wake of tropical storms. But they had
no real answers about how to ease the bur...
Ari Berman
As Democrats gloat over two gubernatorial wins and the defeat in
California of Gov. Arnold's intiatives, the GOP approaches off-year
elections weighed down by Bush's baggage.
Eric Alterman
Democrats celebrate electoral victories in Virginia, New Jersey and
California, they shouldn't waste time gloating. They need to find
effective candidates like Tim Kaine and Jon Co...
David Corn
What motivated director Robert Greenwald to spend a year on a
documentary detailing Wal-Mart's impact on American life, culture and
commerce?
Sam Graham-Felsen
Who is Diego Maradona, and how did a former
Argentinian soccer star become the nemesis of an American President?
Dave Zirin
As the Senate opens hearings this week calling energy execs to account for their windfall profits on gasoline and natural gas, the question must be asked: Is this price gouging or ...
Nicholas von Hoffman
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Argentine soccer hero Diego
Maradona led thousands in a massive rebuke of George W. Bush, his trade
policies and his neoconservative age...
Jordana Timerman
Republican candidates in Virginia do a lot of posturing on being tough on crime--but behind their self-righteous political ads, there is a hidden history of racism, questionable fu...
Max Blumenthal
A hard-hitting documentary, an embarrassing leaked memo on healthcare
and abandonment by customers who don't like its politics. It's
getting harder these days for Wal-Mart to put o...
Liza Featherstone
The scandals suffocating the Bush Administration seem less like Nixon
and Watergate and more like Louis XV and pre-Revolutionary France. They
are harbingers of a potent cultural ev...
William Greider
San Francisco recently launched universal preschool, designed to make young participants higher earners and better citizens when they reach adulthood. If successful, San Francis...
David Kirp
Recycling electronics using US prison labor is a booming business, with
a captive workforce paid pennies per hour for dangerous work that is
largely unregulated. The human and en...
Elizabeth Grossman
As the nation's wealthiest family, the Waltons could be
a force for social good. But when they choose to spend their fortune
lobbying for pet projects, tax cuts and charter schools...
Liza Featherstone
Books & the Arts
What motivated director Robert Greenwald to spend a year on a
documentary detailing Wal-Mart's impact on American life, culture and
commerce?
Sam Graham-Felsen
The scandals suffocating the Bush Administration seem less like Nixon
and Watergate and more like Louis XV and pre-Revolutionary France. They
are harbingers of a potent cultural ev...
William Greider
Vincent Carretta's Equiano, the African is the complex narrative of a Carolina
slave who bought his freedom, married an English woman and published a
memoir on his life as a...
Robin Blackburn
Jill Lepore's New York Burning paints a realistic portrait of a
purported slave rebellion in 1741 and the hysteria that followed, a
harrowing lesson of how abusers of power ...
Russell Shorto
Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost plumbs the
mysteries of losing oneself and finding oneself in the realm of the
utter unknown.
Michael Gorra
Breakfast for Pluto is the upbeat and whimsical fable of a girl
in a boy's body. Watching Claire Danes in Shopgirl will make you
forget for a while that other actress...
Stuart Klawans
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