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Working and Poor in the USA

A vast impoverished population languishes in the midst of our economy.

Beth Shulman

Orange Alert Citizen Debriefing Form

Bruce McCall

Take Back Values

Democrats need to offer a compelling vision of a morally based social contract.

David Callahan

The New American Century

A call to global activists meeting in India.

Arundhati Roy

Free Martha!

Why Martha Stewart should be found innocent.

Doug Henwood

Nation Notes

Readers consistently rate the environment as one of their greatest concerns.

The Editors

The Pickering Putsch

George W.

The Editors

The Once-Green GOP

“The environment is probably the single issue on which Republicans in general–and President Bush in particular–are most vulnerable.” So asserted Frank Luntz, a leading Republican pollster, last

Mark Hertsgaard

Paul O’Neill, Truth-Teller

For those with a taste for learning the inner truth about White House politics, reading Paul O’Neill’s story is like eating a bowl of peanuts–difficult to stop.

William Greider

The Iowa Surprise

Everything about Howard Dean’s “Iowa Perfect Storm” strategy seemed to go perfectly, right up to the point at which Iowans actually started voting in the first-in-the-nation caucuses that began t

John Nichols

Bush’s Stump Speech

George W. Bush’s State of the Union speech clearly signaled that he plans to run as a wartime, prosperity candidate.

The Editors

Memo From Mars

Dear Beeblebrox,

Patricia J. Williams

The Fog of Cop-Out

My dear friend and late Nation colleague Andrew Kopkind liked to tell how, skiing in Aspen at the height of the Vietnam War, he came round a bend and saw another skier, Defense Secretary R

Alexander Cockburn

On Paul O’Neill’s Revelation That the Bushmen Were Planning A War With Iraq From The Earliest Days of The Administration

It now appears that they saw 9/11
As, even though not quite ordained in heaven
To punish godless sins allowed in bed
(As Falwell and Pat Robertson had said),

Calvin Trillin

You Had to Be There

Robin Blackburn spent 1968 in Havana, Prague, Berlin and London.

Robin Blackburn

Lust for Life

The afterlife of Italian poet, novelist, critic and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brings to mind some familiar lines from Auden’s “In Memory of W.B.

George Scialabba

All You Need Is a Girl and a Gun

Colin MacCabe’s new book is more a provocative polemic than a rounded biography, but it deserves the highest praise for being inspired by the belief that in the early 1960s Jean-Luc Godard grabbe

David Thomson

The New American Century

A call to global activists meeting in India.

Arundhati Roy

The Fog of Cop-Out

My dear friend and late Nation colleague Andrew Kopkind liked to tell how, skiing in Aspen at the height of the Vietnam War, he came round a bend and saw another skier, Defense Secretary R

Alexander Cockburn

The Once-Green GOP

“The environment is probably the single issue on which Republicans in general–and President Bush in particular–are most vulnerable.” So asserted Frank Luntz, a leading Republican pollster, last

Mark Hertsgaard

Paul O’Neill, Truth-Teller

For those with a taste for learning the inner truth about White House politics, reading Paul O’Neill’s story is like eating a bowl of peanuts–difficult to stop.

William Greider

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