Homos, Hypocrites and Haters

The shaming and resignation of Senator Larry Craig proves that if you're going to be a hypocrite in American politics, it pays to be a straight hypocrite.

Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Civics for Cheney

The Vice President and his minions need an education in the rudiments of government. Where are the strict constructionists when we need them?

Stanley I. Kutler

Travails of the Super-Rich

Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The Madness of ‘King’ George

If the President is allowed to invoke the divine right of kings, the American Revolution will have come full circle.

Simon Prentis

New Orleans Is Us

If the American people continue to avert their eyes from the slow death of an abandoned city, their communities may soon be the next to fail.

Billy Sothern

Cindy Sheehan’s Political Ambitions

A dialogue between the peace activist and The Nation's editor over Sheehan's plan to run for Congress against Representative Nancy Pelosi.

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Cindy Sheehan

Justice Denied

Alberto Gonzales leaves office with the Justice Department tarnished, the rule of law debased and our civil liberties significantly eroded. It now falls to Congress--and the next P...

Aziz Huq

Exporting Instability

Mideast stability can't be promoted with arms any more than democracy can be imposed through the barrel of a gun.

William D. Hartung

The Economy Debates

Want to know the real differences between the candidates? Listen to what they say about the economy.

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage

Waiting for ‘The Big One’

Nobody knows if the current financial crisis could become the type of economic unraveling that makes history.

William Greider

Trauma in New Orleans

The city lacks the resources to address its residents' urgent mental health needs.

Dr. Marc Siegel

After the Flood

The toxic neoliberal policies used to rebuild New Orleans have led to a spiraling social crisis.

The Editors

Bush’s Deceitful Smiles

A deceitful President, masking the chaos his $3 trillion war has unleashed with photo-ops from Iraq, now confronts cynical Democrats in Congress poised to write another check, will...

Robert Scheer

Cleaning Up After the Orioles

Thanks to some major-league grassroots organizing, workers who keep Baltimore's Camden Yards pristine are close to winning the right to a living wage.

Dave Zirin

The Fed Won’t Help the Working Class

By pumping more money into the economy to bail out hedge funds and subprime lenders, the Federal Reserve will only worsen inflation's bite into average Americans' paychecks.

Nicholas von Hoffman

A Legacy of Torture

The dark legacy of Alberto Gonzales--torture and a tainted judiciary system--will live on long after he leaves government.

Robert Scheer

The Dog Days of War

Cindy Sheehan taught us that the only way to reach those who will go to the polls is by taking to the streets.

Gary Younge

Big Brother Democracy

Protesters in Quebec were treated like contestants in a reality show--put in a field and watched on TV monitors.

Naomi Klein

It Ain’t Necessarily So…

Despite what many in the media believe, the American public is interested in more than just right-wing punditry and celebrity gossip.

Eric Alterman

Adieu, Karl Rove

Calvin Trillin

Letters

PEACE MOVEMENT: DEAD OR ALIVE?

Washington, DC

Alexander Cockburn and Our Readers