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Punishing the Wrong People

A federal magistrate in Georgia sentenced eleven people to prison for up to six months last week for crossing the line onto a military base in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience last fall.

Patrick Mulvaney

Picking Up Where the Rainbow Left Off

Conceived as a progressive challenge to the Democratic Leadership Council, in just under six months PDA has organized chapters in thirty-six states.

Nicholas Jahr

The Politics of Water in Bolivia

Once again, World Bank water policy is challenged by the poorest.

Jim Shultz

Another World Turns

Imagining the possibilities at the World Social Forum.

Alisa Solomon

Visualizing a Neo-Rainbow

History holds clues to a winning electoral strategy for progressives.

Bill Fletcher Jr. and Danny Glover

Waxman: Democrats’ Eliot Ness

His headline-grabbing investigations are enough to give the GOP heartburn.

David Corn

Dick Durbin: Bush Fighter

He can help mount an effective opposition.

John Nichols

In Fact…

NATION NOTES

The Editors

Battling the Pentagon

On issues of war and peace, progressives should take heart from the fact that no matter how aggressive the Bush Administration’s intentions may be, its ability to carry them out is likely to be s

William D. Hartung and Michelle Ciarrocca

Chertoff and Torture

Back on Friday, June 12, 2002, the Defense Department had a big problem: Its new policy on torture of captives in the “war on terror” was about to be exposed.

Dave Lindorff

Hail-to-the-Chief Show

This Administration may not know how to rule the world, but it sure can run a ritual.

Richard Goldstein

‘Freedom’ Belongs to All

George W. Bush’s second inaugural address cynically invoked noble ideals for ignoble ends.

Eric Foner

Models of Opposition

George W.

The Editors

Comix Nation

Peter Kuper

The Free Market and Vaccines, Part 2

Dr. Marc regularly answers readers’ questions on matters relating to medicine, healthcare and politics. To send a query, click here.

Dr. Marc Siegel

Now, the US Must Get Out of Iraq’s Way

After the excellent election news, it’s time for Bush to plan a pullout.

Robert Scheer

Fantasy Island

Washington Post writer Paul Farhi cleverly compared the content and structure of George W.

Eric Alterman

Shrieking Violets

There I was, in the basement of the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, enjoying a private tour of the place.

Patricia J. Williams

We Could Have Danced All Night

(The Bushes Do “My Fair Lady” at the Inaugural Balls)

Calvin Trillin

from Love in the Time of War

Tonight, the old hard work of love
has given up. I can’t unbutton promises
or sing secrets into your left ear
tuned to quivering plucked strings.

Yusef Komunyakaa

The Moviegoer

If Herbert Marcuse and Senator Joseph McCarthy had gone to a movie together in the late 1950s–and that could only happen in a movie–they would have walked out, probably not together, and demand

Lee Siegel

Intolerable Cruelty

On May 22, 1787, nine Quakers and three Anglicans gathered in a London print shop with the express purpose of doing something about the international slave trade.

Daniel Lazare

Letters

STEREOTYPE BY DAGUERREOTYPE

Katonah, NY

Robert Grossman and Our Readers