Tim Spicer’s World Tim Spicer’s World
Why was a notorious mercenary awarded a $293 million Pentagon contract?
Dec 29, 2004 / Feature / Andrew Ackerman
The Right’s Assault on Kofi Annan The Right’s Assault on Kofi Annan
How the neocons created a "scandal" to punish a critic of US foreign policies.
Dec 22, 2004 / Feature / Ian Williams
You Break It, You Pay For It You Break It, You Pay For It
So it turns out Pottery Barn doesn't even have a rule that says, "You break it, you own it." According to a company spokesperson, "in the rare instance that something is broken i...
Dec 22, 2004 / Column / Naomi Klein
A Reply to Peter Beinart A Reply to Peter Beinart
In my last column, I focused on the Kerry campaign's inability to articulate an alternative national security strategy.
Dec 22, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
Intervention Intervention
The Jonathan Schell Reader has just been published by Nation Books.
Dec 22, 2004 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell
Why They Hated Gary Webb Why They Hated Gary Webb
Few spectacles in journalism in the mid-1990s were more disgusting than the slagging of Gary Webb in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
Dec 16, 2004 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Flawed Intelligence Bill Flawed Intelligence Bill
The debate held before Congress voted to reorganize the nation's intelligence agencies under the authority of an all-powerful intelligence czar was generally portrayed as a simpl...
Dec 16, 2004 / Editorial / John Nichols
War Resisters Go North War Resisters Go North
Protests over the conduct of the Iraq war are mounting from what seems an unlikely place: the ranks of the military.
Dec 16, 2004 / Editorial / Alisa Solomon
Operation Self-Destruction Operation Self-Destruction
This article, from the August 26, 1968, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on...
Dec 8, 2004 / Feature / Karl M. Purnell
Pakistan and the True WMD Threat Pakistan and the True WMD Threat
If it had been even a primitive nuclear weapon that hit the World Trade Center three years ago, hundreds of thousands of people would have died instead of fewer than 3,000, and t...
Dec 7, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer