Gonzalez’s Big Mistake Gonzalez’s Big Mistake
What's Alberto Gonzalez's biggest mistake? Cast your vote in the Nation Poll. House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers wants White House political czar Karl Rove to testif...
Mar 13, 2007 / The Nation
Pelosi’s Disastrous Misstep on Iran Pelosi’s Disastrous Misstep on Iran
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies in the chamber's Democratic leadership initially accepted that spending legislation designed to outline an Iraq exit strategy should...
Mar 13, 2007 / John Nichols
The AIPAC Caucus The AIPAC Caucus
The night before Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) annual conference, House Democrats removed language from an Ira...
Mar 13, 2007 / The Nation
Surge Creep Surge Creep
When it comes to surging in Iraq, it's "encouraging" out there. So the President tells us ("Yet even at this early hour, there are some encouraging signs…"); so Lt. Gen. David ...
Mar 13, 2007 / The Nation
The Millionaires’ Primary The Millionaires’ Primary
As America embarks on the longest, most costly presidential race in history, Russ Feingold is asking Congress to apply the brakes.
Mar 12, 2007 / Feature / Ari Melber
KBR’s $400 Million Iraq Question KBR’s $400 Million Iraq Question
Did the Pentagon's biggest Iraq contractor violate military policy by hiring Blackwater and other private military companies?
Mar 12, 2007 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill and Garrett Ordower
Workers to Nike: Just Don’t Do It! Workers to Nike: Just Don’t Do It!
Back in the 1990s, the BJ&B hat factory, in the Dominican Republic, represented one of campus anti-sweatshop activism's biggest triumphs. (Back in the day, I did a lot of reportin...
Mar 12, 2007 / The Nation
Bush Approval Rating Drops Below Zero Bush Approval Rating Drops Below Zero
Polling experts say that Bush's numbers are at an all-time low, and that only certain toxic molds have come close to those numbers in the past.
Mar 12, 2007 / Eric Kenning
Guantánamo, Dred Scott and the Amistad Guantánamo, Dred Scott and the Amistad
The US Supreme Court should look back on its most regrettable and most courageous decisions.
Mar 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
The Things They Carried The Things They Carried
Reviews of The Host, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and The Namesake.
Mar 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans