Farm Aid at Twenty-Two Farm Aid at Twenty-Two
John Mellencamp celebrates twenty two years of Farm Aid on Sunday in New York City. Friday night, at the end of a two-day Nation campus tour to Indiana University, I visited Me...
Sep 9, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Myopic Iraq Debate The Myopic Iraq Debate
Like the war itself, the unfolding Congressional hearings on what to do next raise more questions than answers.
Sep 8, 2007 / Feature / Matthew Blake
The Shock Doctrine The Shock Doctrine
First, the disclosure: I'm about to praise a new book by a Nation columnist and a friend. This is irrelevant though because if Naomi Klein had never written for the magazine and I...
Sep 7, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Secret White House The Secret White House
By classifying an unprecedented amount of information, the Bush Administration is shrouding its workings in mystery--and threatening our democracy in the process.
Sep 7, 2007 / Feature / Ruth Rosen
Top Iraqi Graft-buster: Maliki’s Government Must Go Top Iraqi Graft-buster: Maliki’s Government Must Go
With Congress and the White House engaging in yet another round of debate on the Iraq War, a former Iraqi judge who was--and who still may be--the chief ant...
Sep 7, 2007 / David Corn
Will Petraeus Betray the Truth–and the Troops? Will Petraeus Betray the Truth–and the Troops?
How, after one of the most horrifically violent months in the history of Iraq, will Army Gen. David Petraeus make the political case -- and, make no mistake, the likelihood at thi...
Sep 7, 2007 / John Nichols
Log Cabin Christians Log Cabin Christians
I was a little surprised the other day to find a picture of Mother Teresa adorning The Nation's website, illustrating an interview in which Richard Rodriguez rehearses the ...
Sep 7, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Welcome to Fleece U Welcome to Fleece U
Our mission is to take feckless teenagers like you and turn them into full-fledged debtors.
Sep 6, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
The Patriot Act’s–and the Senate’s–Constitution Problem The Patriot Act’s–and the Senate’s–Constitution Problem
It has been almost six years since Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold cast the lone vote in the Senate against the USA Patriot Act, warning at a time when few others had the courage ...
Sep 6, 2007 / John Nichols
Disinformation Society, Bush-style Disinformation Society, Bush-style
We live with an administration whose concept of domestic "freedom" went out with those "freedom fries," briefly sold at the cafeterias of the House of Represent...
Sep 6, 2007 / TomDispatch