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
Kerik’s ‘Nannygate’ Was the Least of It Kerik’s ‘Nannygate’ Was the Least of It
NYC's media have been looking into allegations of far more consequential transgressions.
Dec 14, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Real UN Reform Real UN Reform
Those conservatives who think that "UN Reform" means the dissolution of the United Nations are now calling for the resignation of Kofi Annan.
Dec 9, 2004 / Editorial / Ian Williams
The Illusion of Inclusion The Illusion of Inclusion
In 1958 John Ashbery sailed for Paris to gather materials for a thesis he intended to write about Raymond Roussel, who at the time was an all-but-forgotten French poet, playwrigh...
Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
Is That All There Is? Is That All There Is?
It's hard to resist the misery of V.S. Naipaul's late fiction, hard not to surrender to its bleak and wary authority.
Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood
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