Beckett at 100

No playwright has given plainer witness to the planet's most violent century or borne such loving witness to the dispossessed.

Margaret Spillane

Sacrifice Play

By selecting George Mitchell to head a steroids inquiry, Major League Baseball keeps the focus strictly on players, not on the owners who silently encourage abuse.

Dave Zirin

The Media Is the Mensaje

Outspoken DJs on Spanish-speaking radio are giving immigrant activists a loud, clear voice.

Ed Morales

Lost in Translation

Good translators speak for others, not for themselves. So why is a translator for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman being prosecuted as a co-conspirator?

David Cole

A Green Salute

In celebration of Earth Day, The Nation salutes those who took part in the top five environmental victories of the year.

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Sam Graham-Felsen

Songs of Protest

As the war in Iraq causes more devastation, courageous musicians are using song to move a nation.

The Editors

My Mother, the Illegal Alien

As the May Day protests, they evoked memories of an earlier generation of immigrants who lived with the fear of deportation.

Robert Scheer

Getting Hosed

As oil profits soar, Americans are getting hosed at the gas pump, and Congress can't decide whether to raise taxes, lower them or throw money at the voters.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Bush’s Other War

The FBI's bid to examine Jack Anderson's papers is the latest battle in the Bush Administration's war against the media.

Eric Alterman

The Deciderator

Bush's goofily unmoored positioning of himself as "the decider" duncifies us all.

Patricia J. Williams

Adieu, Scott McClellan

Calvin Trillin

Letters

IMMIGRANTS: WHAT'S TO BE DONE?

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