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Features

How Bush’s Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry

Want proof the Iraq War was all about oil? Here it is.

Dilip Hiro
Bush’s War Funding Safety Net

Even if Congress refused to authorize more money for the Iraq debacle, the White House could make an end run via an obscure Civil War statute.

Ryan Grim
Debating Ahmadinejad at Columbia

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger's combative remarks tarnish an otherwise illuminating event.

Jayati Vora
Strike! A Defining Moment for the UAW

The issues at stake, especially GM's drive to shift the burden of healthcare, will affect workers throughout the industrialized economy--to say nothing of Campaign '08.

Max Fraser
Order 17

A closer look at the US rule that gives military contractors like Blackwater a free pass to murder, terrorize and pillage their way through Iraq.

Tom Engelhardt
A Plea From the Iranian People

Iran's leading dissident implores UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to reprimand the Iranian government for its human rights abuses and provide moral support for the suffering Iranian people.

Akbar Ganji
Blackwater: Hired Guns, Above the Law

Acting with impunity and immune from prosecution, a shadow army funded by US taxpayers is fueling the spiraling violence in Iraq.

Jeremy Scahill
The High Price of Beauty

A scourge of health problems has nail salon workers wondering about the industry's safety standards.

Virginia Sole-Smith
Had She Lived

A painter explores love and loss in the iconic settings of postwar Paris.

Byron Dobell
The GOP’s Iraq Problem

Iraq has become a liability the GOP can hardly afford.

Bob Dreyfuss
Olbermann Rules!

He's the guy who put the guts back into TV journalism.

Marvin Kitman

Editorials

Healthcare Surrender Monkeys

America has faced down the Third Reich and the Red Menace, but it has met an enemy it dares not confront: the private health insurance industry.

Barbara Ehrenreich
The Richardson Surge

Bill Richardson's edgy, opinionated and sometimes risky campaign is clicking because of his exit-now strategy from Iraq.

John Nichols
Let the CHIPs Fall…

Bush has turned renewal of a successful child health insurance program from a no-brainer to a battle on the future of healthcare.

Trudy Lieberman
Politicize the War

By sending Petraeus to Capitol Hill, the White House tried to smuggle in a radical war agenda under the mantle of an outstanding soldier. And people fell for it.

Chris Hayes
Taking Power

America is sleepwalking into one-man rule. What can the Democrats do about it?

Jonathan Schell
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Columns

Biden One-Ups Bush

Instead of spending even more money armoring soldiers' vehicles, he should work harder at trying to end the war.

Robert Scheer
The Fix Is In From the Fed–Maybe

What, exactly, is the interest-rate cut going to fix?

Nicholas von Hoffman
Poverty Is Hazardous to Your Health

With the exception of John Edwards's plan to eradicate poverty, the concerns of the poor seem to have fallen off the progressive agenda for 2008.

Katha Pollitt
Fidel, You Got the Wrong Conspiracy

Forget 9/11. Alan Greenspan escapes vilification for his role in a plot against America's economic security.

Alexander Cockburn
Bush on Iraq

He's digging us in, deeper and deeper.

Calvin Trillin
‘Jena Is America’

Jena, Louisiana, has become a national symbol of racial injustice, as civil rights activists converge on the town to protest a miscarriage of justice against six black teens.

Gary Younge

Books and the Arts

The Logic of Survival

In order to preserve his way of life
Odysseus threaded the necks
of twenty faithless servant girls
and hung them in his courtyard

Jennifer Moxley
Abalone

Abalone Rumsen aulón
Aristotle auriform Costanoans
cultivated, Brueghel painted,
awabi Osahi dove for
on September 12, 425 A.D.

Jeffrey Yang
Class Acts

The left's literary canon has neglected the contributions less-celebrated writers have made to the political significance of literature.

J. Hoberman
Root and Branch

A Canadian philosopher surveys some of the livelier flashpoints in America's battle over evolution.

Ian Hacking
Olbermann Rules!

He's the guy who put the guts back into TV journalism.

Marvin Kitman
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Letters

Letters

Readers write back about Bob Moser's report on a grassroots revolution in Kentucky and Liza Featherstone's coverage the Service Employees International Union. Plus, an exchange with Jonah Raskin.

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October 8, 2007 Issue

Features

Want proof the Iraq War was all about oil? Here it is.

Even if Congress refused to authorize more money for the Iraq debacle, the White House could make an end run via an obscure Civil War statute.

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger's combative remarks tarnish an otherwise illuminating event.

The issues at stake, especially GM's drive to shift the burden of healthcare, will affect workers throughout the industrialized economy--to say nothing of Campaign '08.

A closer look at the US rule that gives military contractors like Blackwater a free pass to murder, terrorize and pillage their way through Iraq.

Iran's leading dissident implores UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to reprimand the Iranian government for its human rights abuses and provide moral support for the suffering Iranian people.

Acting with impunity and immune from prosecution, a shadow army funded by US taxpayers is fueling the spiraling violence in Iraq.

A scourge of health problems has nail salon workers wondering about the industry's safety standards.

A painter explores love and loss in the iconic settings of postwar Paris.

Iraq has become a liability the GOP can hardly afford.

He's the guy who put the guts back into TV journalism.

Editorials

America has faced down the Third Reich and the Red Menace, but it has met an enemy it dares not confront: the private health insurance industry.

Bill Richardson's edgy, opinionated and sometimes risky campaign is clicking because of his exit-now strategy from Iraq.

Bush has turned renewal of a successful child health insurance program from a no-brainer to a battle on the future of healthcare.

By sending Petraeus to Capitol Hill, the White House tried to smuggle in a radical war agenda under the mantle of an outstanding soldier. And people fell for it.

America is sleepwalking into one-man rule. What can the Democrats do about it?

Subscribe Today and Save $137!

Columns

Instead of spending even more money armoring soldiers' vehicles, he should work harder at trying to end the war.

What, exactly, is the interest-rate cut going to fix?

With the exception of John Edwards's plan to eradicate poverty, the concerns of the poor seem to have fallen off the progressive agenda for 2008.

Forget 9/11. Alan Greenspan escapes vilification for his role in a plot against America's economic security.

He's digging us in, deeper and deeper.

Jena, Louisiana, has become a national symbol of racial injustice, as civil rights activists converge on the town to protest a miscarriage of justice against six black teens.

Books and the Arts

In order to preserve his way of life Odysseus threaded the necks of twenty faithless servant girls and hung them in his courtyard

Abalone Rumsen aulón Aristotle auriform Costanoans cultivated, Brueghel painted, awabi Osahi dove for on September 12, 425 A.D.

The left's literary canon has neglected the contributions less-celebrated writers have made to the political significance of literature.

A Canadian philosopher surveys some of the livelier flashpoints in America's battle over evolution.

He's the guy who put the guts back into TV journalism.

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

Letters

Readers write back about Bob Moser's report on a grassroots revolution in Kentucky and Liza Featherstone's coverage the Service Employees International Union. Plus, an exchange with Jonah Raskin.

In order to preserve his way of life
Odysseus threaded the necks
of twenty faithless servant girls
and hung them in his courtyard

Abalone Rumsen aulón
Aristotle auriform Costanoans
cultivated, Brueghel painted,
awabi Osahi dove for
on September 12, 425 A.D.