The Leader of the Last Remaining Superpower Asserts Minimal Qualifications The Leader of the Last Remaining Superpower Asserts Minimal Qualifications
To those who say he cannot do it, Who claim his head is filled with suet, He says that he is plenty able To deal with issues on the table. Though he may have no depths to plu...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Aren’t We Happy Yet? Aren’t We Happy Yet?
There was a short note in the New York Times a few months ago reporting that Governor Jeb Bush wept while speaking to the Southern Regional Conference of the National Baptist Con...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
"Bustin' Out," episode six of R.J. Cutler's breakthrough reality TV series American High, opens on 17-year-old Morgan Moss pointing a pistol at his mother's head and barking deman...
Jul 27, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Bravmann
A Bush Summer Rerun? A Bush Summer Rerun?
The next scene in Return of the Bushies may feature Brent Scowcroft, who was National Security Adviser to Bush I. The anonymous leakers of Washington are whispering that Scowcroft...
Jul 27, 2001 / David Corn
Kosovo: A General Lament Kosovo: A General Lament
In mid-June of 1999 NATO's first military campaign ended in victory over Yugoslavia. It may have been the first war in history in which the winning side suffered no combat casualt...
Jul 27, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
What I Voted For What I Voted For
Nader's campaign made a lot of people angry, but his cause is worth the fight.
Jul 27, 2001 / Feature / Tim Robbins
Nation Notes Nation Notes
George Fuchs, The Nation's controller since 1995, died recently, far too young. We knew George for his quick check-writing, his help with our taxes, his ironic sense of humor, his...
Jul 27, 2001 / The Editors
After Genoa After Genoa
The world will never be the same after Genoa. We are referring both to the bloody confrontations at the G-8 summit and, more deeply, to the long history of conquest that began whe...
Jul 27, 2001 / The Editors
Is This the New Face of the Democratic Party? Is This the New Face of the Democratic Party?
Representative Nancy Pelosi is poised to become Congress's most powerful woman.
Jul 27, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols