Brownback Molehill Brownback Molehill
Once again, being on the losing side of history is driving social conservatives mad. Senator Sam Brownback, currently the only presidential hopeful beloved by the far right wingnu...
Dec 20, 2006 / The Nation
Taking Marriage Amendments to School: Students–and professors–challenge benefit bans Taking Marriage Amendments to School: Students–and professors–challenge benefit bans
Students--and professors--challenge benefit bans.
Dec 20, 2006 / The Nation
Constructing Progress: To build better campuses, students should get more involved Constructing Progress: To build better campuses, students should get more involved
To build better campuses, students should get more involved.
Dec 20, 2006 / The Nation
Kids Kids
Spring Awakening is a highly politicized play that explores the sexuality of young teenagers and the adult heartache that can accompany it.
Dec 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Faraway, So Close Faraway, So Close
In Five Germanys I Have Known--part memoir, part extended rumination on German-Jewish identity--Fritz Stern revisits his family's past and finds that he has never been quite at hom...
Dec 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Omer Bartov
Parasites of Plunder? Parasites of Plunder?
Hitler's Beneficiaries advances a controversial, deeply flawed argument that Germans failed to revolt against the Nazis because Hitler established a welfare state built on plunder.
Dec 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard J. Evans
People’s Revolt in Lebanon People’s Revolt in Lebanon
By empowering the dispossessed, Hezbollah has become a formidable force that is threatening the US-backed Lebanese government.
Dec 20, 2006 / Feature / Mohamad Bazzi
About Face About Face
In the most significant movement of dissident soldiers since Vietnam, nearly 1,000 active-duty officers and enlisted personnel have petitioned the government to withdraw from Iraq.
Dec 20, 2006 / Feature / Marc Cooper
And the Beat Goes On… And the Beat Goes On…
A new book examining civil rights coverage demonstrates that the best reporting sometimes requires journalists to toss objectivity out the window.
Dec 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
A New Policy for Iraq A New Policy for Iraq
Why don't we just ask the wise men?
Dec 20, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin