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Voting for the First Time

A conversation with Utah Phillips.

Carolyn Crane

Postcard From Kabul

The Afghan presidential election was plagued with fraud and technical errors.

Christian Parenti

‘Radical to the Root’

A talk with David Cobb, the Green Party’s presidential candidate.

William Greider

Rocking the Youth Vote–From 1972 to 2004

Lennon spoke out then, as Springsteen speaks out now.

Jon Wiener

When Presidents Lie

Official dishonesty is never worthwhile.

Eric Alterman

The Right Wing’s Drive for ‘Tort Reform’

Thanks to damage caps and other measures, victims are often unable to sue.

Dan Zegart

Nation Notes

Washington editor David Corn has been named a fellow in the “Security and Liberty in the Post-9/11 Era” reporting program of the Institute for Justice and Journalism at the USC Annenberg School.

The Editors

Potemkin Government

The longer the Bush Administration is in office, the clearer it becomes that it has a disordered relationship not just with one aspect of the world or another, such as the war in Iraq or the budg

Jonathan Schell

Union Makes Its Bed

On September 29 in San Francisco, 4,000 hotel employees–all members of the newly merged union UNITE HERE–walked out on strike or were locked out of their workplaces after their contracts expire

Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele

Still Blair’s Party

D.D. Guttenplan would like to thank Glenda Jackson MP for her assistance in gaining admission to the Labour Party Conference.

D.D. Guttenplan

Visualize Kerry Winning

Robert Grossman

The Happy Warrior

William Greider interviews David Cobb this week in a web-only feature.

William Greider

Springsteen for Change

A culture war’s going on. The 2004 election does not merely pit red states against blue states; it places the cultural community against the Bush establishment.

David Corn

Election Matters

In his 1988 song “Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards,” British troubadour Billy Bragg promised, “The Revolution is just a T-shirt away.” It’s taken a while, but the 2004 election could prove Bra

John Nichols

The Forgotten Issue

In The Nation‘s October 9, 2000, special report on the Supreme Court, Tom Wicker wrote, “No issue is more vital…repeat, no issue is more important than the makeup of the next Supr

The Editors

Kerry a Bleeding Heart? Hardly

Thank you, George W. Bush, for trying to assure me that John Kerry is a liberal. Wish it were so.

Robert Scheer

Bush’s Court Picks: Be Afraid. Very Afraid.

Democrats haven’t made much of what would happen to the courts should Bush win a second term.

Katha Pollitt

‘There Are No Innocents’

An oppressive and beleaguered empire, a terrorist international, a storm raging in the world press about torture, right-wing Christians on the march against moral decline and the collapse of fami

Alexander Cockburn

On the President’s Boast That He Knew Osama Bin Laden Rather Than Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/1

That’s excellent. So tell us: Why did you
For months imply the opposite was true?
And why does Cheney (Nanny Dick) still flog

Calvin Trillin

Picking Up the Pieces

Brian Wilson began recording his masterpiece, Smile, in 1966; the project collapsed a year later, unfinished.

Douglas Wolk

Office Politics

As one of those pathetic evolutionary throwbacks who has never used e-mail or the Internet, and has hardly ever handled a mobile phone, I can approach this book with all the supreme disinterested

Terry Eagleton

Rhythm Nation

Since Fidel Castro’s brief fainting spell during a speech in June 2001, Miami, Havana and Washington have been caldrons of feverish speculation on his succession and the politics of a post-Castro

Ann Louise Bardach

Liberal Hawk Down

This essay is adapted from Anatol Lieven’s next book, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism, to be published this month by Oxford University Press.

Anatol Lieven

When Presidents Lie

Official dishonesty is never worthwhile.

Eric Alterman

‘There Are No Innocents’

An oppressive and beleaguered empire, a terrorist international, a storm raging in the world press about torture, right-wing Christians on the march against moral decline and the collapse of fami

Alexander Cockburn

Springsteen for Change

A culture war’s going on. The 2004 election does not merely pit red states against blue states; it places the cultural community against the Bush establishment.

David Corn

Re-Stealing the Election?

A landslide of letters overwhelmed our mailbox in response to Ronnie Dugger’s August 16/23 Our Readers and Ronnie Dugger