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November 28, 2005 Issue

John Nichols and Marc Cooper analyze big wins by Democrats in Virginia, New Jersey and California, Bob Moser assesses John Edwards’s p…

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Editorial

Support Our Troops

It's easy to slap a magnet on your SUV and feel like you're supporting American soldiers fighting a brutal, far-off war. But the way to really support them is to work to extricate ...

Medea Benjamin and Gayle Brandeis

Majority/Minority

Joe Biden buoys up Samuel Alito's nomination by tamping down speculation of a filibuster. But California's George Miller convinced the President to revoke an executive order that w...

David Sirota

In Fact…

SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT

The Editors

Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and Publisher Victor Navasky pose for a joint portrait at the offices of The Nation on December 4, 2001.

Letter From the (Outgoing) Publisher

As Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel becomes the latest in a long line of publisher/owners of The Nation, Victor Navasky looks ahead to his new role as publisher emeritus and mem...

Victor Navasky

Arnold Show: Canceled

Buoyed by their defeat of Schwarzeneggar's "referendum revolution," Democrats and organized labor are now energized to defeat the governor's re-election bid next year.

Marc Cooper

Yes, Virginia…

Democratic gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey gave the lie to the GOP contention that "conservatism is on the march." But infighting among Dems doomed electoral reform i...

John Nichols

The Delphi Oracle

The cynical restructuring plan for bankrupt Delphi Automotive calls for massive wage and benefit givebacks for 51,000 American workers. Governors of affected states must craft stra...

The Editors

Democrats and the War

In 2005, The Nation declared it would only support candidates who made a speedy end to this war a major campaign issue.

The Editors

Column

The Big Lie Technique

As President Bush denounces his critics and proclaims war without end in Iraq the central front in a new cold war, he fails to acknowledge that he is responsible for handing Al Qae...

Robert Scheer

The World According to Dowd

Maureen Dowd has done her best to declare feminism dead. But by insisting that men are scared of spunky successful women, it doesn't occur to her that she is promoting, rather than...

Katha Pollitt

First the Lying, Then the Pardon

Shades of Iran/contra: Since the indictment of I. Lewis Libby, Washington is abuzz about presidential pardons. If officials who violate the law and lie about it know with ce...

Alexander Cockburn

Another Lesson in White House Values

Calvin Trillin

Letters

PARDON ME, DO YOU SPEAK LIBERAL?

Bellingham, Wash.

Eric Alterman and Doug Henwood and Sasha Abramsky and Our Readers

Feature

The ‘No Exit’ Strategy

Most Americans want immediate action to pull out of Iraq, but Senate Republicans passed a measure today that essentially lets the White House off the hook.

Ari Berman

SOA Protests to Focus on Torture

As demonstrators gather at Fort Benning, Georgia, this weekend for an annual protest against the School of the Americas, the spotlight will be on increasing dismay in Congress and ...

Patrick Mulvaney

An E-Cycling Nightmare

E-cycling used computers to the Third World may sound idealistic, but in reality it's just a new way to dump toxic waste.

Emily Lodish

War of Words in France

As media attention focused on rampaging youths setting afire the poor suburbs of France, verbal conflagrations raged among politicians and elected officials on how to respond to th...

Françoise Mouly

The Disappearing Flu Vaccine

Flu vaccine is in short supply this season, and the reason is that drug companies can't make as much money protecting us from disease as from developing expensive treatments for ni...

Nicholas von Hoffman

Right to Trial Imperiled by Senate Vote

Civil libertarians were stunned last week when the Senate approved a measure that would allow government officials to essentially bypass the courts and lock up people suspected of ...

Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith

What Would Alito Do?

If Samuel Alito is confirmed to the US Supreme Court, his impact on limiting reproductive rights would be certain and swift, due to his record and to two key abortion rights cases ...

Sharon Lerner

Darwin on Trial

As the site of a trial on including intelligent design in biology textbooks, Dover, Pennsylvania, is a focal point of a national debate on science and religion. But a look at the t...

Eyal Press

Cornbread and Roses

With his campaign to eradicate poverty in America, John Edwards has shed his Clinton Lite image. But to truly redefine the Democratic party and win the 2008 presidency, he has a lo...

Bob Moser

Students Confront Sweatshops

With a new wave of activism against sweatshops sweeping college campuses, student interest in the morality of their clothing choices can set a standard for the rest of us.

Peter Dreier and Richard Appelbaum

Why Is France Burning?

Fires and rioting in France are the result of thirty years of government neglect and the failure of the French political classes to make any serious effort to integrate Muslim and ...

Doug Ireland

Germ Boys and Yes Men

Stewart Simonson is a former Amtrak corporate attorney with zero medical experience. So why is he in charge of emergency health and bioterrorism in the federal government?

Jeremy Scahill