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Features

Weldon’s Wild Ride

The wheels are falling off Curt Weldon's electoral wagon, as the wacky Pennsylvania Republican finds himself mired in a criminal investigation.

Ari Berman
Election Night From Hell

As Fox News marks its tenth birthday, recall the fateful night in November 2000 that its election desk broke all the rules reporting the election of George W. Bush. Will Fox do it again this year?

David W. Moore
Playing Politics at School

Casting himself as tough on school crime as election day nears, Kentucky Republican Representative Geoff Davis is pushing a measure that puts the constitutional right of students at risk.

Hasdai Westbrook
What’s Wrong With this Picture?

FCC commissioners heard testimony in New York this week about how media consolidation stifles diversity, grassroots community and the creativity of independent musicians and artists.

Kristal Brent Zook
Lamont vs. Lieberman, Round 2

Lamont now lags behind Liebermans, but the Connecticut electorate is so volatile that the outcome is far from certain.

Bruce Shapiro
The Moral Minimum

As the lagging minimum wage is being turned into a moral issue instead of an economic one, states are beginning to act where the federal government has not.

Sasha Abramsky
Guardian of the Ballot Box

Ion Sancho, an election supervisor in Florida, is dedicated to creating a fair and accurate voting system. But his passion has nearly cost him his job.

Andrew Gumbel
SNAP!

A unique student-run organization is making real strides mobilizing progressive voters for victory in the long haul.

Sam Graham-Felsen

Editorials

Reproductive Rights on the Line in South Dakota

An initiative that seeks to overturn South Dakota's draconian ban on abortion will have implications in states across the country.

Kate Michelman
Pat Tillman’s Legacy

As the elections approach, a former soldier, grieving the friendly-fire death of his brother in combat, asks: How has the most respected country in the world become so irrational, belligerent, feared and distrusted?

Kevin Tillman
Soldiers of Conscience

A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world will be a different place.

Staughton Lynd
In Fact…

ROUGH JUSTICE

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Rich’s Stealth Campaign

Howard Rich is pouring big money into leveraging our electoral system to serve his libertarian agenda.

Peter Schrag
Downsized but Not Out

United Professionals, a new organization for college-educated workers at risk in a global economy, is joining the movement for economic justice.

Barbara Ehrenreich and Tamara Draut
The War and the Election

Ending the Iraq War is the most pressing issue facing America today. I

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Baseball in the Ashes

The last time the Detroit Tigers faced the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, the Motor City was literally aflame. What's evident this time is that the city never rose from the ashes.

Dave Zirin
Enron’s Enablers

Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling would have remained small time crooks were it not for the energy industry deregulation measures they effectively purchased from Bush I and II.

Robert Scheer
Useful Idiots

Why did America's so-called liberal media find it so easy to support Bush's Iraq disaster? You won't find answers in the US media: Try The London Review of Books.

Nicholas von Hoffman
Show Him the Money

Diversity can be cringe-making, arbitrary, insincere and sappy. But take it away and you won't get more equality--you'll only get more privilege.

Katha Pollitt
The Myth of Microloans

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus has helped a lot of poor women, but the basic problem in developing countries is landlessness. A $130 microloan won't solve that problem.

Alexander Cockburn
A Short History of ‘Cut and Run,’ Using the George W. Bush Definition

From 'Nam to Lebanon, the Gulf War and, um, Texas.

Calvin Trillin

Books and the Arts

Election Night From Hell

As Fox News marks its tenth birthday, recall the fateful night in November 2000 that its election desk broke all the rules reporting the election of George W. Bush. Will Fox do it again this year?

David W. Moore
The Queen Is Dead

Reviews from the New York Film Festival, including Marie Antoinette, Climate, 49 Up and more.

Stuart Klawans
Soldiers of Conscience

A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world will be a different place.

Staughton Lynd
Death in the Family

Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost represents one man's search to find the truth about himself, his family and the Holocaust.

Gideon Lewis-Kraus
A Rebel in Defense of Tradition

As composer Steve Reich turns 70, he is winning recognition from the classical establishment for the creativity and power ever-present in his music.

David Schiff
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November 6, 2006 Issue

Features

The wheels are falling off Curt Weldon's electoral wagon, as the wacky Pennsylvania Republican finds himself mired in a criminal investigation.

As Fox News marks its tenth birthday, recall the fateful night in November 2000 that its election desk broke all the rules reporting the election of George W. Bush. Will Fox do it again this year?

Casting himself as tough on school crime as election day nears, Kentucky Republican Representative Geoff Davis is pushing a measure that puts the constitutional right of students at risk.

FCC commissioners heard testimony in New York this week about how media consolidation stifles diversity, grassroots community and the creativity of independent musicians and artists.

Lamont now lags behind Liebermans, but the Connecticut electorate is so volatile that the outcome is far from certain.

As the lagging minimum wage is being turned into a moral issue instead of an economic one, states are beginning to act where the federal government has not.

Ion Sancho, an election supervisor in Florida, is dedicated to creating a fair and accurate voting system. But his passion has nearly cost him his job.

A unique student-run organization is making real strides mobilizing progressive voters for victory in the long haul.

Editorials

An initiative that seeks to overturn South Dakota's draconian ban on abortion will have implications in states across the country.

As the elections approach, a former soldier, grieving the friendly-fire death of his brother in combat, asks: How has the most respected country in the world become so irrational, belligerent, feared and distrusted?

A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world will be a different place.

ROUGH JUSTICE

Howard Rich is pouring big money into leveraging our electoral system to serve his libertarian agenda.

United Professionals, a new organization for college-educated workers at risk in a global economy, is joining the movement for economic justice.

Ending the Iraq War is the most pressing issue facing America today. I

Subscribe Today and Save $129!

Columns

The last time the Detroit Tigers faced the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, the Motor City was literally aflame. What's evident this time is that the city never rose from the ashes.

Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling would have remained small time crooks were it not for the energy industry deregulation measures they effectively purchased from Bush I and II.

Why did America's so-called liberal media find it so easy to support Bush's Iraq disaster? You won't find answers in the US media: Try The London Review of Books.

Diversity can be cringe-making, arbitrary, insincere and sappy. But take it away and you won't get more equality--you'll only get more privilege.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus has helped a lot of poor women, but the basic problem in developing countries is landlessness. A $130 microloan won't solve that problem.

From 'Nam to Lebanon, the Gulf War and, um, Texas.

Books and the Arts

As Fox News marks its tenth birthday, recall the fateful night in November 2000 that its election desk broke all the rules reporting the election of George W. Bush. Will Fox do it again this year?

Reviews from the New York Film Festival, including Marie Antoinette, Climate, 49 Up and more.

A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world will be a different place.

Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost represents one man's search to find the truth about himself, his family and the Holocaust.

As composer Steve Reich turns 70, he is winning recognition from the classical establishment for the creativity and power ever-present in his music.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

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