Science Fact or Science Fiction? Science Fact or Science Fiction?
Climate change is real, and its impact is potentially devastating to our way of life. So why do the news media have such a hard time telling the straight story?
Mar 27, 2006 / Feature / Bryan Farrell
A New Downing Street Memo A New Downing Street Memo
The British government memo on Iraq, reported in today's New York Times, is perhaps even more important than the Downing Street memo. The five-page memo--of a January 31, 2003 Ova...
Mar 27, 2006 / Adam Howard
Bernard-Henri Levy Live! Bernard-Henri Levy Live!
On behalf of all the angry Nation readers who protested Bernard-Henri Levy's "Letter to the American Left," I wish I had had a pie -- or at least Levy antagonist and pie-...
Mar 27, 2006 / Richard Kim
Don’t We Need a New Political Language? Don’t We Need a New Political Language?
A condensed version of this post, titled Had it With Hitler, was published today by the Washington Post. Here's a modest proposal for improving national political discussion. L...
Mar 27, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Kids Are Alright The Kids Are Alright
How many young people turn away from low-paying but vital professions because they can't earn enough to pay back their student loans? How many potential social workers, public int...
Mar 26, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Clueless on Immigration Clueless on Immigration
The largest mobilization in the history of--and in favor of--immigrants stretched for a mind-boggling twenty-six blocks through downtown Los Angeles Saturday, bringing somewhere be...
Mar 26, 2006 / Adam Howard
Argentina: 30 Years After the Deluge Argentina: 30 Years After the Deluge
To paraphrase that great line from Bogie: I remember the night of March 24, 1976 like yesterday. My wife was wearing blue. The Argentine military was in gray. Exactly thirty years...
Mar 25, 2006 / Adam Howard
Affirmative Action for Men, Part Deux Affirmative Action for Men, Part Deux
Remember when opponents of affirmative action argued that it hurt blacks' self-esteem because they'd never know if they had succeededon their merit? According to this theory, firs...
Mar 24, 2006 / Adam Howard
Google’s Wi-Fi Privacy Ploy Google’s Wi-Fi Privacy Ploy
Google and other telecom giants are wooing cities with plans to create public Wi-Fi grids. But there's no such thing as a free digital lunch: The price we pay is a loss of online p...
Mar 24, 2006 / Feature / Jeffrey Chester
Bush Tries to Backtrack Bush Tries to Backtrack
Every once in a while a politician stumbles into telling the truth. Even George W. Bush. Unwittingly, of course. At his Tuesday press conference, Bush dropped one of the biggest b...
Mar 24, 2006 / Ari Berman