George W. Bush Explains His Signing Statements, Among Other Things George W. Bush Explains His Signing Statements, Among Other Things
Can you say "Decider"?
Jan 11, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007 Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007
Celebrating the eloquence of the feminist, activist and writer in whose work memory, history, poetry and prophecy converge.
Jan 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Greater Than Warren Harding? Greater Than Warren Harding?
On Gerald Ford's greatness and the New York Times's ghastly coverage of Iraq.
Jan 4, 2007 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Another New Policy for Iraq Another New Policy for Iraq
Once again, God help us, Bush follows his gut.
Jan 4, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Ford, Nixon, The Nation Ford, Nixon, The Nation
The story behind the story of Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon.
Jan 4, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
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
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
A View From the Bridge A View From the Bridge
Hart Crane, one of America's greatest poets, relished the extremes that eventually destroyed him.
Dec 14, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak
Waltzing With Warlords Waltzing With Warlords
Five years after the United States ousted the Taliban, optimism about Afghanistan's future is evaporating. Three new books shed light on what went wrong.
Dec 14, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Peter Bergen