The Warning Game The Warning Game
The question is not the 1970s cliché, What did the President know and when did he know it? The appropriate query is, What did US intelligence know--and what did the Pre...
May 23, 2002 / David Corn
September 11 Questions September 11 Questions
George W. Bush, it is true, did not create the FBI's smug, insular, muscle-bound bureaucracy or the CIA's well-known penchant for loopy spy tips and wrongheaded geopolitical analy...
May 23, 2002 / The Editors
Knowledge (and Power) Knowledge (and Power)
For Senator Clinton to flourish a copy of the New York Post--the paper that has called her pretty much everything from Satanic to Sapphist--merely because it had the pungent headli...
May 23, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Letter From Italy Letter From Italy
From Padua's Piazza Insurrezione, where I was standing at 11 in the morning on April 16, the general strike--Italy's first in twenty years--looked and sounded like a great success...
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Joanne Barkan
Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’ Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’
Right in the wake of House majority leader Dick Armey's explicit call for several million Palestinians to be booted out of the West Bank, and East Jerusalem and Gaza as well, c...
May 16, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
A Dangerous Treaty A Dangerous Treaty
The Nation has warned repeatedly that the Bush Administration was threatening to undermine perhaps the best chance in a generation for a cooperative relationship with Russia that ...
May 16, 2002 / The Editors
Mr. Carter Goes to Cuba Mr. Carter Goes to Cuba
"I have concluded that we should attempt to achieve normalization of our relations with Cuba," Jimmy Carter proclaimed in a secret Presidential Directive shortly after taking offi...
May 16, 2002 / Peter Kornbluh
Letter From Santiago Letter From Santiago
I arrived here in Chile May 8 as a material witness in a criminal complaint against former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet for the murder of an American friend just days after the ...
May 16, 2002 / Marc Cooper
DC’s Virtual Panopticon DC’s Virtual Panopticon
A camera system in the nation's capital is making civil libertarians nervous.
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Onward, Christian Soldiers Onward, Christian Soldiers
In anticipation of the Second Coming, evangelicals leap to Israel's defense.
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Deanne Stillman