Left to Die Left to Die
If a society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners, we are in deeper trouble in New Orleans than we realize. The biggest prison crisis since Attica is now unfolding in the ...
Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Billy Sothern
Katrina Lives Katrina Lives
The nation might believe it has moved on from Katrina, from the name so childish and somehow slightly foreign, not Sherry or Ann or Margaret. Moved on from the scenes of dark-s...
Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Susan Straight
Two Prisoners Named Williams Two Prisoners Named Williams
The lives and deaths of two prisoners intersected this week--Stanley Tookie Williams and Richard Williams, flawed men whose political perspectives and pursuit of personal redemptio...
Dec 14, 2005 / Feature / Dan Berger
Human Rights, Rendered Meaningless Human Rights, Rendered Meaningless
The outsourcing of torture to other countries is a devilishly clever legalistic fiction that allows the Bush Administration to systematically violate basic human rights of terror s...
Dec 14, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Pro-Alito Buzz Cloaks a Draconian Agenda Pro-Alito Buzz Cloaks a Draconian Agenda
Advocates of Samuel A. Alito's nomination to the US Supreme Court praise him for "judicial restraint" and "not legislating from the bench." But the buzzwords conceal a political ag...
Dec 13, 2005 / Feature / Seth Rosenthal
Limbo to Close: Mass Evictions Expected Limbo to Close: Mass Evictions Expected
The Vatican is about to close limbo, the theological netherworld where unbaptized babies, prophets and philosophers were believed to reside in lieu of heaven. This is causing a who...
Dec 13, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Pilgrimage to Guantánamo Pilgrimage to Guantánamo
Twenty-five members of the Catholic Worker movement are walking across Cuba to the US Naval prison at Guantánamo Bay in hopes of meeting with more than 500 detainees, the fi...
Wrongly Held, Never Tried, Fighting Back Wrongly Held, Never Tried, Fighting Back
The Tipton Three embody a nightmare scenario of the "war on terror": Young British men visiting Pakistan for a wedding wound up accused of terrorism in Afghanistan, imprisoned and ...
Dec 9, 2005 / Feature / Sarah Goldstein
Torture Tree Torture Tree
As The Nation's editors have written in the lead editorial of this special edition on torture, there is no longer any point in
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Steve Brodner and Peter Ahlberg
Imitation of Art Imitation of Art
The Chronicles of Narnia is the perfect combination of Christian allegory and The Lord of the Rings, a well-crafted commodity and nothing more. The Ice Harvest, an anti-Christmas f...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans