What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN Have in Common? What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN Have in Common?
What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN have in common? They share a prescient view of the world's greatest dangers and their unheralded agreement on key issues facing the planet...
Dec 21, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Newfield’s Passionate Journalism Newfield’s Passionate Journalism
In RFK: A Memoir, the finest of the shelf full of books he produced during a career that was as prolific as it was meaningful, Jack Newfield succeeded in explaining the late Rober...
Dec 21, 2004 / John Nichols
A Christmas Amnesty A Christmas Amnesty
This article, from the December 14, 1946, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation’s Digital Archive.
Dec 21, 2004 / Feature / Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The GOP’s Sabotage of Social Security The GOP’s Sabotage of Social Security
The President considers my longevity a grave threat to the nation.
Dec 21, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
All Hat, No Cattle All Hat, No Cattle
In a decision that was as unsurprising as it was shallow, Time magazine picked George W. Bush as its Person of the Year for the amazing feat of winning reelection as an incumbent ...
Dec 20, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
An Unlawful Dentention An Unlawful Dentention
Way off the world's radar and in continued violation of international human-rights law, on September 22 the Vietnamese Government abruptly transferred political dissident Dr. Nguy...
Dec 17, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Howard’s End Howard’s End
Martin Scorsese's The Aviator overlays three legends, all of them made of celluloid.
Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Versed in Adventure Versed in Adventure
Few modern poets served so long an apprenticeship as Basil Bunting, none had so adventurous a life and few poets' lives have produced such lasting rewards.
Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Burt
An Arab Surrealist An Arab Surrealist
The Springs of Adonis (now also known as the River Ibrahim) run through the Byblos region of Lebanon down through steep gorges to the Mediterranean.
Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robert Irwin
The Literary World System The Literary World System
What are you doing? I mean, right now. You're reading a book review.
Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz