Reading Arendt in Caracas Reading Arendt in Caracas
A student movement influenced by Hannah Arendt is emerging in Venezuela. What do they think of the Bolivarian Revolution?
Aug 17, 2007 / Feature / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
The Money Surge The Money Surge
In an effort to bolster the surge and tamp down violence in Iraq, the US military is buying off insurgents. But what happens if they don't stay bought?
Aug 17, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Sarko’s Gift to the Wealthy Sarko’s Gift to the Wealthy
France's new president has launched an assault on the welfare state.
Aug 15, 2007 / Feature / Jordan Stancil
What ‘Progress’ in Iraq Really Means What ‘Progress’ in Iraq Really Means
The cost of deploying a soldier, the number of bullets fired for each insurgent killed, the percentage of Iraqi babies born underweight. A portrait-by-numbers of the Iraq catastrop...
Aug 13, 2007 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Who’s Sorry Now? Who’s Sorry Now?
Michael Ignatieff apologizes for being wrong on Iraq. If only mainstream media acknowledged all the people who were right.
Aug 9, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Terror America Wrought The Terror America Wrought
Take a moment to remember the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, connecting the dots between that attack and US actions in Iraq sixty-two years later.
Aug 8, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Data-Mining Our Liberties Data-Mining Our Liberties
Despite blistering criticism of warrantless surveillance, the Bush Administration rammed a law through Congress that authorizes spying on our calls and e-mails. How did they get aw...
Lessons From the Tonkin Gulf Lessons From the Tonkin Gulf
From the Nation archives, the late senator and onetime editor of this magazine recalls his lonely stand against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, approved by Congress August 7, 1964, ...
Aug 7, 2007 / Feature / Ernest Gruening
Keeping Enemies Close–and Saudis Closer Keeping Enemies Close–and Saudis Closer
What are Bush's real motives for the $63 billion Mideast arms deal to Israel, Egypt and Saudi America?
Aug 2, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Red Zone, Green Zone Red Zone, Green Zone
Pundits speculate the US can win stability if not victory in Iraq, but beyond the philosophical Green Zone they inhabit, life becomes ever more desperate for Iraqi civilians.
Aug 1, 2007 / Editorial / Tom Engelhardt