Subcontinental Homesick Blues Subcontinental Homesick Blues
Nearly twenty years ago, in a village in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, a young woman called Roop Kanwar was burned to death at her husband's funeral pyre.
Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb
New Power for ‘Old Europe’ New Power for ‘Old Europe’
The EU is an emerging geopolitical force that corporate America must reckon with.
Dec 9, 2004 / Feature / Mark Schapiro
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
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I've never had a strong appetite for travel literature.
Dec 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stacy Torres
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
Kissinger’s Shadow Over the Council on Foreign Relations Kissinger’s Shadow Over the Council on Foreign Relations
A critic of US-Chile policy paid the price.
Dec 6, 2004 / Feature / Scott Sherman
The War That Never Was The War That Never Was
As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.
Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding! Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
No alien penetration or treachery of double agents has ever done nearly as much damage to the CIA as the infighting consequent upon the arrival of each new director, charged by h...
Dec 2, 2004 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Defunct Economists Defunct Economists
Professor Paul Samuelson's Economics: An Introductory Analysis has been the bestselling college economics textbook for more than fifty years.
Dec 2, 2004 / Editorial / William Greider
Taking Liberties Taking Liberties
Attorney General John Ashcroft has never been one to hide his anger under a bushel.
Dec 2, 2004 / Editorial / David Cole