What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
There's no better antidote to orange alerts and duct-tape dictums than good fiction, and if the terrorists occupying the White House have shot your attention span, try a book of ...
Mar 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Judith Long
The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda
The Bush Administration's plan to keep several hundred thousand US and British troops for years in a divided, heavily armed Muslim country will make all Americans "targets of opp...
Mar 25, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Postcards From New York Postcards From New York
Among the approximately 150,000 people who took to the streets of New York on March 22 to protest the US invasion of Iraq were six Nation interns.
Mar 25, 2003 / Feature / The Nation
‘Shoot Movies, Not Iraqis’ ‘Shoot Movies, Not Iraqis’
Well, we can rest assured that the Academy Awards voting is not rigged. Going into Sunday night's Oscars' ceremony, it was a safe bet that, if the people who run the movie-indust...
Mar 24, 2003 / John Nichols
Fighting for Peace–UPDATED Fighting for Peace–UPDATED
****HELP GREET BUSH IN FLORIDA**** George W. Bush is going to Florida tomorrow. Help the local progresive community give him a proper greeting. He'll be at MacDill Air Force Bas...
Mar 23, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Against the Hijacking of Patriotism Against the Hijacking of Patriotism
"In all good conscience, I cannot and will not vote for a resolution that supports and endorses a failed policy that led us to war," declared US Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, as he ...
Mar 22, 2003 / John Nichols
Rachel Corrie’s Echo Rachel Corrie’s Echo
In the last note that 23-year-old American college student Rachel Corrie wrote to her father from a Palestinian community on the Gaza Strip, she thanked Craig Corrie for stepping ...
Mar 20, 2003 / John Nichols
Global Dispatches Global Dispatches
The Nation elicited comment on reaction to the war against Iraq from all corners of the globe.
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / The Nation
An American Tragedy An American Tragedy
The tragedy of America in the post-cold war era is that we have proved unequal to the responsibility that our own power placed upon us.
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
The Poodle That Barked The Poodle That Barked
George Bush is supposed to be the cowboy, Tony Blair the sidekick--or, in some versions, the presidential poodle.
Mar 20, 2003 / D.D. Guttenplan