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Feature
Postcard From Cancún
The insurgent delegations were in many respects the product of years of anti-WTO organizing.
Christian Parenti
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Remembering Allende
His dual commitment to socialism and democracy ought to be a model today.
Marc Cooper
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Chile, 9/11/73
Declassified documents reveal the US government’s role in the Pinochet coup.
Peter Kornbluh
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Lessons of a Catastrophe
Chile was a democracy, yet tyranny triumphed–in the name of fighting terror.
Ariel Dorfman
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The Soul of Capitalism
A transformation of Wall Street’s core values is possible, using financial tools.
William Greider
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Blood in the Water
After a summer of tending to the grassroots, the Democrats who aspire to their party’s 2004 presidential nomination were busy harvesting support from key constituencies around Labor Day.
John Nichols
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Editorial
The Postwar Post
Their reporters had the goods, but the Washington Post editors chose not to display them.
Ari Berman
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Nation Notes
The Nation has a new look to go with our rising circulation. Avenging Angels, an advertising firm that works for progressive causes and that is responsible for our “celebrity reader” sub
The Editors
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Children Left Behind
In his State of the Union speech this past January, President Bush appeared to make a compassionate gesture toward children with incarcerated parents when he proposed an initiative that would i
Chesa Boudin
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Why Estrada Went Down
A few hours after Miguel Estrada withdrew his name for a judgeship on the Court of Appeals for the Washington, DC, Circuit, a leading Senate liberal was asked about the meaning of the two-year
Jack Newfield
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Bush’s Unreality Show
Competing in prime time with a docudrama celebrating his heroics after the attacks of September 11, 2001, George W.
The Editors
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Column
White House’s Cynical Iraq Ploy
‘Misspeak’ first for the front page, ‘correct’ it later in the back…
Robert Scheer
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Send in the Clowns
I was a child who, when taken to the circus, spent all her time trying to see past the greasepaint and illusion.
Patricia J. Williams
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‘Behold, the Head of a Neocon!’
Beating up on neocons used to be a specialize sport without wide appeal. With all due false modesty I offer myself as an early practitioner.
Alexander Cockburn
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To Old Europe From the Last Remaining Superpower: A Polite Request for Help in Iraq
Well, yes, we may have used the word “appease.”
We may have called you weenies who munch cheese.
But now we’re asking nicely for your aid–Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Tokyo Story
A Love Affair for the postcollege, flirting-with-Buddhism set, Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation is a travelogue of the emotions, concerned with the deepening relationship betwe
Stuart Klawans
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Bleak Haus
Though still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard, who died in 1989 at the age of 57, is widely recognized as one of the foremo
Mark M. Anderson
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From Protest to Patronage
Bayard Rustin forged a remarkable career as a social activist. Briefly a member of the Young Communist League, he repudiated communism but remained a socialist throughout his life.
Randall Kennedy
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Letters
American Rebels and You…
We received much mail on “American Rebels,” our Independence Day issue from the forthcoming Nation Books release edited by Jack Newfield [Our Readers