Freedom of Choice Talking Points
Though polls consistently show a majority of Americans supporting freedom of choice, abortion rights are facing their greatest attack since the Supreme Court decision Roe V...
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May 19, 2003 Issue
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Editorial
Letter From Ground Zero
Now that the regime of Saddam Hussein has been overthrown, the Bush Administration, like a submarine that, having successfully sunk one ship, resurfaces its periscope to fin...
Axing Higher Ed
One of the many casualties of our national obsession with the war on Iraq is the emerging crisis of America's public colleges and universities.
Reflections on a War
It was the best of wars. It was the worst of wars. But did the war in Iraq change anyone's mind?
Bush’s Bomb
The latest crisis with North Korea appears to be about the North finally declaring that it has the bomb, but in fact it is about the Bush Administration's inability to hide ...
Mapping Mideast Peace
With the close of the Iraq war--at least its first phase--the Bush Administration has another opportunity to seek a lasting solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and to ...
Column
Stand and Fight
Compare the following two statements currently floating 'round the blogosphere:
Weapons of Mass Delusion?
Tom Friedman doesn't care if the United States ever finds weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Letters
Feature
The Unconquerable World
Violence, Hannah Arendt said, destroys power. The United States is moving quickly down this path.
Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad
Many Russians who fled Brezhnev's USSR because they could not speak freely are in a state of shock in today's America. One is Roman Kaplan, an intellectual from Leningrad (n...
Books & the Arts
Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners
The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y.
Kurdish Delight
International cinema has an irresistible new pair of reprobates: middle-aged brothers who can do no right in their lives and no wrong before the camera.
Bird on a Wire
I didn't have to wait long for Ziad, the plumber, to come to my house. It had been a year since the current Palestinian intifada broke out in September 2000, and unemploymen...
